@polina.chesnakova
RI-based Cookbook Author + Culinary Instructor 🧄🍰🧀
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Chesnok Winter Book Tour Dates!
Chesnok Winter Book Tour Dates!
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Go to Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora - Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
Upcoming Events + Cooking Classes
Upcoming Events + Cooking Classes
From Borscht to Lavash: How Stalin’s ‘Soviet Cuisine’ Outlived the USSR - Bloomberg
From Borscht to Lavash: How Stalin’s ‘Soviet Cuisine’ Outlived the USSR - Bloomberg
In-Person Milk Street Class: The Eastern European Bakery with Polina Chesnakova Tickets, Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
In-Person Milk Street Class: The Eastern European Bakery with Polina Chesnakova Tickets, Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Join us in-person in Milk Street to learn three outstanding celebratory bakes from Eastern Europe with Polina Chesnakova.
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A bi-monthly newsletter on life and cooking from a Soviet diaspora kitchen | Building community and exploring immigrant identity through recipes, personal stories, interviews, current musings and recs, and more... Click to read Chesnok: Notes from a Post-Soviet Kitchen, by Polina Chesnakova, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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A tribute to my Russian and Georgian roots, Chesnok celebrates the special food heritage that became a life's passion. A food blog featuring cooking from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and beyond.
My Bookshop (book recs)
My Bookshop (book recs)
Polina Chesnakova was born in Ukraine to Russian and Armenian parents from the country of Georgia. She was raised in a tight-knit Rhode Island community of refugees from all over the former Soviet Union, and has cooked and baked in a handful of professional kitchens. She’s had her blog (now newsletter) Chesnok since 2015, and her work has been published in Saveur, Epicurious, The Washington Post, and Food 52. She has written two cookbooks, Hot Cheese and Everyday Cake, with the third, Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora, slated to be published in September 2025 with Hardie Grant USA. She worked for Book Larder in Seattle and presided over the cooking class program as the Culinary Director from 2021–2023. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband, Lee, and son, Anton.
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