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Strong Roots

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Jun 19, 2025
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This week on Cooking the Books, Olia Hercules tells us the story of Ukraine through four generations of her own family in her memoir, Strong Roots.

It’s an extraordinary read, and here she shows us some of the photographs from the family album. Meet her mum and dad, little (now bigger) Sasha, her grandparents, strong-backed matriarch, Lyusya and the Jam…

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