Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking

Thank you comrade!”Alton Brown From bright pickles to pillowy dumplings, ingenious vodka infusions to traditional homestyle dishes, and varied zakuski to satisfying sweets, Kachka the cookbook covers the vivid world of Russian cuisine. Celebrated Portland chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales brings her acclaimed Portland restaurant Kachka into your home kitchen with a debut cookbook enlivening Russian cuisine with an emphasis on vibrant, locally sourced ingredients.“With Kachka, Bonnie Morales has done something amazing: thoroughly update and modernize Russian cuisine while steadfastly holding to its traditions and spirit. More than 100 recipes show how easy it is to eat, drink, and open your heart in Soviet-inspired style, from the celebrated restaurant that is changing how America thinks about Russian food.The recipes in this book set a communal table with nostalgic Eastern European dishes

And who doesn't want to spend a few happymoments with a bowl of silken dumplings?”--Eater National, “Blinis are the New Black atPortland’s Kachka”. This book captures the vibrancy and history of the food, the excitement of the restaurant and the generosity of the culture. Affordable caviar and electric orange salmon roe are now ubiquitousgarnishes on restaurant plates. It's everything you want from a dining experience: a table covered end to end with cocktails, caviar, pickles, piroshki, and dumplings. Bonnie and Israel have created an amazing restaurant where zakuski fills the table, Soviet pop music fills the air and horseradish vodka washes it all down. Thank you comrade!”--Alton Brown"'Where should we eat in Portland?' my visiting friends often ask; 'Kachka!' I invariably answer. With this book, it feels possible."-- Danny Bowien"Portlandia meets my late grandmother. "The last time I was in Portland I ate at Kachka twice in 24 hours. Essential!"-

Bonnie lives in Portland, Oregon.Journalist Deena Prichep cut her teeth on pickled green tomatoes in her grandfather's New York deli, and has covered topics ranging from Ramadan recipes to gefilte fish for NPR, PRI's The World, Bon Appetit, and Marketplace.. Bonnie and her husband Israel opened Kachka to much critical acclaim