How accurate it is, is another matter. The result sampled at the salon had a subtle chocolate flavor and was not too sweet. We had to doctor her recipe a bit to get something close to it. At holiday time, Nenaydykh sometimes brings in pirozhki, savory filled pastries with meat, cheese or potato fillings, for the customers. It's a joke, she's quick to say.
Ukranian girls are good cooks and wives and very clean.
We try to bring our traditions here, but just use ingredients we find here. The variety and abundance of food in this country was overwhelming at first, she recalled. We had to get used to buying a little at a time. She recalled the gorgeous fruits and vegetables that surfaced in Ukraine in the years before they left. But she didn't trust them.