Chef Brandon Chrostowski writes about supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia in this exclusive essay.
If you live in Ukraine—or have traveled to the country in the past month as I have—you become part of the war. And if you are human, Ukraine will become part of you.
Almost a year into the war, in early February 2023, I was back at the border in Przemysl waiting to enter Ukraine. The same reasons pulled me back here: Ukrainian's were suffering daily. I couldn't watch from home and do nothing.Brandon Chrostowski I saw it first-hand when I arrived in Lviv on January 25 to work alongside Ukraine's most famous chef Ivegen Klopentenko. At his restaurant, we prepared traditional meals together and in one afternoon we fed nearly 300 men and women who are displaced from the war and living in temporary housing nearby. For them, it was more than food. It was nourishment for the spirit and soul. They thanked me in both broken English and in Ukrainian and kids fist bumped me as they passed through the line.
On an overnight train, I sat next to a soldier who was on leave to see her 5-year-old son for his birthday. She cried because it's been almost a year since they have seen each other, and she failed to get him a gift in time. Within the same hour, a mother and 2-year-old daughter boarded the train after a long hug with their husband and father who was in military gear. They waved goodbye as the train departed.
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