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‘Freedom dumplings’: the chefs cooking in solidarity with Ukraine
Bakers, bartenders and cooks are using food and drink to show support and to fundraise for relief efforts
Thu 10 Mar 2022 18.01 EST Last
modified on Thu 10 Mar 2022 18.07 EST"In Culver City, a Chinese restaurant is selling bright blue and yellow “freedom dumplings”, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. In West Hollywood, a popular cocktail bar is offering a special “Pruzhnyy”, or resilience, cocktail, made with Ukrainian Khor vodka. Bakeries across California are making special batches of hamentaschen, a Jewish cookie associated with resistance to tyrannical government officials, and pampushka, a Ukrainian garlic bread.
It’s all part of a wave of solidarity among California chefs, who are using food to show support for Ukrainians after Russia’s invasion and to fundraise for humanitarian relief efforts.
All the proceeds from the special menu items are going to organizations such as World Central Kitchen, the non-profit offering hot meals to Ukrainian refugees at border crossings; Polish Humanitarian Action; Libereco PHR, a Swiss-German relief group; and Unicef. Although the individual dollar amounts raised are often modest, the chefs, bakers and bartenders involved said they want to send a message. . .
“I understand the price of freedom. I didn’t grow up in a democracy,” said Shirley Chung, the Los Angeles chef who created the blue and yellow dumplings. Watching Ukrainians fighting for their democracy, she said, “I feel like they’re fighting for the world.”
The California food industry relief efforts are part of a broader international movement. Chung said she was inspired by Cook for Ukraine, a global campaign started by London-based chefs Alissa Timoshkina, who is Russian, and Olia Hercules, who is Ukrainian, which raised more than £75,000 ($98,000) in donations in its first week. Those two friends were inspired by a previous culinary campaign, Cook for Syria, which encourages people to cook traditional meals and talk about the crisis, while also donating money for relief efforts. . .
Reference >> https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/mar/10/chefs-bakers-bartenders-solidarity-ukraine-los-angeles
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