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Irina Janakievska's Balkan Book Cover

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Dec 05, 2024
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On this week’s episode of Cooking the Books, Irina Janakievska takes us deep into her former Yugoslavia to find where she came from, the food of her family and to connect a massive diaspora to their Balkan Kitchen.

She talks very beautifully in the episode about the cover design which she says was inspired by a poem by Blaže Koneski called Veselka or Emb…

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