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Contributor(s): Author: Raisa Marika Stohyn Author: Raisa Stone -Ukrainian Canadian Congress Special Pick Top Three Ukrainian Cookbook & Cultural Book for the past two years Click on "Look Inside" at top of book cover photo for contents. "Your book has us all laughing hysterically & uncontrollably Daikoyu=thank you " Capital Ukrainian Festival, Ottawa "Baba's Kitchen is a good companion to Savella Stechishin's book Traditional Ukrainian Cookery]. We will be presenting copies as awards at our year end dinner.." Los Angeles Ukrainian Cultural Centre In a rollicking, entertaining read, Baba's Kitchen will lead you into the complex soul of Eastern Europe's Indigenous people. Ukrainian-Canadian Raisa Stone spent decades collecting outrageous stories and life advice, plus 200 recipes and home remedies from survivors of Soviet and Nazi terror ---including her family. Raisa's narrator, Baba, is a composite of these invincible souls. Ukraine has been continuously inhabited by civilized, immensely inventive people for 44,000 years. For excerpts, video/audio clips and more, visit: www.ukrainiansoulfood.ca Ukrainians: first tamed horses, invented pants (for riding ), the bow and arrow, built homes from mammoth bone & pyramids older than Egypt's, & created Europe's first democratic constitution . Shamanic practices that sparked the original werewolf and Amazon legends (the latter documented by Greek physician Hippocrates) combine with recipes & customs reaching back to the Neolithic era.