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Chesnok: Notes from a Post-Soviet Kitchen

A bi-monthly newsletter on life and cooking from a Soviet diaspora kitchen | Building community and exploring immigrant identity through recipes, personal stories, interviews, current musings and recs, and more...

Newsletter · By Polina Chesnakova · US · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Russian Was Always the Default—Until It Wasn’t (opens the original)

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    Hello and welcome to Chesnok: Notes from a Soviet Diaspora Kitchen, a newsletter that explores life and cooking in my Slavic immigrant kitchen! If you’re here and not already subscribed, well, here you go:Subscribe now<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tDRD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fi

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