"Taste Through Time": MHP Culinary Center Presents a Modern Vision of Ukrainian Cuisine

MHP Company presented a new project "Taste Through Time". The project aims to show that Ukrainian cuisine can be not only traditional, but also competitive, aesthetic and relevant for global gastronomic platforms, UNN reports.

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The "Taste Through Time" project was presented during a large-scale event for professionals of the HoReCa community HoReCa Masters, which took place at the MHP Culinary Center. The initiators of the project were brand chef of the MHP Culinary Center Illya Demkovsky and gastro-researcher, founder of the Їzhakultura platform Olena Braichenko. Joining forces with a team of chefs, they created a menu of 12 unique dishes that will become examples, guides for the formation of the principles of the new Ukrainian cuisine.

The idea of the "Taste Through Time" project is to develop an approach that will allow us to define the new Ukrainian cuisine. We disassembled traditional Ukrainian dishes into molecules, understood who cooked them and why they cooked them that way, and gave them a new life. We want to inspire the community to discover modern Ukrainian cuisine, to make it attractive, in particular for serving in restaurants, at gastronomic festivals. We are not rethinking borscht. Borscht and dumplings live their own lives. They are known, loved, but is there a continuation of this culinary history? "Taste Through Time" aims to give vectors of development and principles of creating new dishes

"Taste Through Time" includes 12 "reinterpreted dishes", through which the authors of the project propose the basic principles of creating a new modern Ukrainian cuisine.

"We really don't reconstruct, but create, relying on heritage. It is important for us not to recreate an old recipe, but to understand its context: why these ingredients were used, how they were combined, what technologies were used, and what stories are behind this dish," adds Braichenko.

The authors are confident that Ukrainian cuisine has the potential to be a worthy gastronomic business card at the world level.

"We must take into account all the new realities and take responsibility for the fact that we are creating new culinary traditions here today, based on the past, taking into account all the experiences," emphasizes Braichenko.

Reference

Illya Demkovsky is the brand chef of the MHP Culinary Center, a chef with 25 years of experience. He went from cook to chef of chefs. He grew up in the Donetsk region, continues the family culinary tradition. He is responsible for culinary expertise, develops gastronomic culture and shares knowledge at the MHP Culinary School. Ambassador of conscious attitude to food. "I speak the language of tastes. Food is an emotion, and it often speaks for me better than words."

Olena Braichenko is a researcher of gastronomic culture, a candidate of historical sciences. Founder of the їzhakultura project (food culture) and the їzhak publishing house. Author of the books "Ukrainian Feast" and "Ukraine. Food and History", radio host, expert of the television projects Snidanok 1+1 and Ranok. Marathon. Creates lectures, articles and initiatives that shape the modern gastronomic culture of Ukraine.

MHP is an international company in the field of food and agricultural technologies, a producer of high-quality and delicious food products in various formats - from chilled and marinated meat to ready-made dishes and snacks. It develops more than 15 food brands, including "Nasha Ryaba", "Legko!", "Bashchynsky", Skott Smeat, RyabChick and others. MHP's focus is on value-added products and solutions that allow consumers to invest time not in cooking, but in what is important to them: family, work, recreation, friends, hobbies, etc., and other businesses to improve their operational processes and develop without changing their own production facilities.