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Podcast: The Shift with Sam Baker
Episode: Olia Hercules: my periods vanished when the war started
Description: My guest today is the Ukrainian chef, food writer and activist Olia Hercules.
Olia was born in the South of Ukraine and has lived in the UK since her late teens. After working in journalism she decided to follow her heart, her stomach and arguably her heritage, and become a chef.
She trained at Leith’s School of Food and Wine, worked in kitchens, including as chef de partie for Yotam Ottolenghi and as a recipe developer.
But her mission is to make people rethink their attitude to eastern european - and particularly Ukra...