CULINARY GLOSSARY

Banosh is a Hutsul dish of cornmeal cooked in cream, served with cracklings, bryndza cheese, and mushrooms.

Kolyvo is a commemorative dish of boiled wheat with honey, poppy, and nuts; a symbol of eternal life.

Lemishka is a thick porridge-like dish of dried buckwheat flour scalded with boiling water.

Putria is an old Poltava dish of barley fermented with buckwheat flour; sweet-sour, eaten cold.

Solomakha is a simple Cossack dish, a thin porridge of buckwheat (less often wheat or rye) flour seasoned with oil.

Teteria is a Cossack field dish, a thin porridge of millet thickened with thin rye or buckwheat batter, cooked in a cauldron.