S2 E10: Food and War with Alissa Timoshkina
02/22/23 • 57 min
In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and War with Alissa Timoshkina, who co-founded the Cook for Ukraine fundraising initiative with her friend Olia Hercules. In the episode, we talk about her campaign to fight conflict and violence with food and love, what she has learned from Russia's war on Ukraine, and how her Jewish-Ukrainian grandmother taught her that the human spirit cannot be extinguished through war.
- Follow Alissa on Instagram @alissatimoshkina.
- Follow MotherFood on Instagram @motherfoodlondon.
- Listen to MotherFood podcast.
- Follow Alissa on Twitter @alissatimoshkin.
- Buy Alissa's cookbook, Salt & Time.
- Try Alissa's recipe for borsch.
- Get involved with CookforUkraine.org.
- Visit Alissa's website.
- Read Laura's interview with Alissa and Olia for The World's 50 Best Restaurants.
Restaurants mention in the episode:
About Alissa Timoshkina: Alissa is a writer, historian and chef who published her first book, Salt and Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen, in 2019, and who hosts the podcast Motherfood. She founded the supper club KinoVino, pairing dishes with films, and has now extended Motherfood into a food service for new mothers.
About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.
- Buy Single Bald Female.
- Visit Laura's website.
- Read Laura's Substack newsletter, Doughnuts for Breakfast.
- Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
- Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.
Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and War with Alissa Timoshkina, who co-founded the Cook for Ukraine fundraising initiative with her friend Olia Hercules. In the episode, we talk about her campaign to fight conflict and violence with food and love, what she has learned from Russia's war on Ukraine, and how her Jewish-Ukrainian grandmother taught her that the human spirit cannot be extinguished through war.
- Follow Alissa on Instagram @alissatimoshkina.
- Follow MotherFood on Instagram @motherfoodlondon.
- Listen to MotherFood podcast.
- Follow Alissa on Twitter @alissatimoshkin.
- Buy Alissa's cookbook, Salt & Time.
- Try Alissa's recipe for borsch.
- Get involved with CookforUkraine.org.
- Visit Alissa's website.
- Read Laura's interview with Alissa and Olia for The World's 50 Best Restaurants.
Restaurants mention in the episode:
About Alissa Timoshkina: Alissa is a writer, historian and chef who published her first book, Salt and Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen, in 2019, and who hosts the podcast Motherfood. She founded the supper club KinoVino, pairing dishes with films, and has now extended Motherfood into a food service for new mothers.
About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.
- Buy Single Bald Female.
- Visit Laura's website.
- Read Laura's Substack newsletter, Doughnuts for Breakfast.
- Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
- Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.
Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Previous Episode
S2 E9: Food and Fashion with Lauren Bravo
In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and Fashion with Lauren Bravo, author of the upcoming novel Preloved. In the episode, we discuss the fashion of food, whether it’s okay to follow the trends when it comes to restaurants and ingredients, and whether retro foods like baked potatoes and spam are due a comeback. We also touch on eating disorders, dieting and pregnancy.
- Follow Lauren on Instagram @laurenbravo.
- Follow Lauren on Twitter @laurenbravo.
- Order Preloved on Bookshop.org.
- Visit Lauren's website.
Restaurants mentioned in the episode:
About Lauren Bravo: Lauren is a freelance journalist who writes about fashion, popular culture, food, travel and feminism for publications including Stylist, Cosmopolitan and Sunday Times Style. Her books include How to Break Up with Fast Fashion, What Would the Spice Girls Do?, and Preloved .
About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.
- Buy Single Bald Female.
- Visit Laura's website.
- Read Laura's Substack newsletter, Doughnuts for Breakfast.
- Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
- Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.
Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Next Episode
S2 BONUS: Food and Passion with Sophie Haydock (plus an exclusive AA Gill clip)
In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I discuss Food and Passion with Sophie Haydock, author of The Flames, a novel about the four muses who posed for the artist Egon Schiele in Vienna more than 100 years ago. Sophie and I talk about the links between food, passion and art, the passion that runs through the women in her novel, and her passion for writing. She also talks about her time working with the late Sunday Times food critic AA Gill, and shares an exclusive extract from one of the articles he dictated to her, about mushrooms.
- Follow Sophie on Instagram @_sophiehaydock_.
- Follow Egon's Schiele's Women on Instagram @egonschieleswomen.
- Follow Sophie on Twitter @SophieHaydock.
- Buy The Flames in paperback.
- Visit Sophie's website.
- Listen to Sophie on Confessions of a Debut Novelist.
About Sophie Haydock: Sophie is an award-winning journalist who worked for The Sunday Times and has interviewed authors from Bernardine Evaristo to Sally Rooney, as well as being a judge for various literary competitions. The Flames is her debut novel.
About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.
- Buy Single Bald Female.
- Visit Laura's website.
- Read Laura's Substack newsletter, Doughnuts for Breakfast.
- Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
- Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.
Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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