The Veselka Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Landmark Restaurant in New York's East Village

From Strand Bookstore

For more than fifty years, customers have crowded into Veselka, a cozy Ukrainian coffee shop in New York City's East Village, to enjoy pierogi, borscht, goulash, and many other unpretentious favorites. From a simple newsstand serving soup & sandwiches, Veselka has mushroomed (try their mushroom barley soup, it's outta this world! - if you're ever in NYC) into a 24-7establishment on the corner of East 9th St. @ 2nd Ave. Oh, the cookbook: more than 150 recipes, covering everything from Ukrainian classics like the potato pierogi to the very famous Veselka pancakes for breakfast. Come on in! Illus.

From the Publisher

Presents favorite recipes by New York's popular Ukrainian coffee shop complemented by personal stories, holiday menus and an ingredients source list, in a volume that features options ranging from borscht and sweet potato pierogi to grilled kielbasa and peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. 20,000 first printing.

More about the book

Anyone who's had the pleasure of eating at Veselka, at the corner of 2nd Avenue and 9th Street in New York City's East Village, will welcome this sumptuous 150-recipe cookbook. For over half a century, Veselka has been producing hearty meals from Eastern Europe--emphasis on Ukraine--for an army of fans who happily line up to get in the door. Recipes include the restaurant's famous pancakes, five kinds of borscht, endless and wonderful variations on pierogi (they make 3000 a day--by hand), and Ukrainian holiday dishes. User-friendly and almost incredibly toothsome, these recipes give new meaning to the term "comfort food."