The book *Baking Bread | Craft Bread Baking in Ukraine* explores bread, flour and sourdough, talented bakers, and the hard work and passionate dedication required to pursue one’s passion against all odds. The book features 24 contributors, including well-known bakeries such as “Marchuk Bread”, “Spelta”, Bakehouse, “Zavertaylo”, DOU, Flora Fermented, the bakery division at Marigold restaurant led by Igor Mezentsev, and others, as well as talented individual bakers. They are all united by a love of dough and bread-baking. The book’s authors are publisher Lusia Bondar and food researcher Yulia Aurora Ogorodnik.
Many of the book’s contributors have travelled a long professional journey in the kitchen before finding their life’s work: baking bread. Others took up this activity after the outbreak of full-scale war, when they were seeking emotional refuge and inspiration and found them precisely in working with dough, which became a form of ‘bread therapy’ for them.
