Today's episode is about Ukrainian cuisine, its history, and its importance in culture.

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Yevhen Klopotenko, renowned Ukrainian chef and restaurateur, credited with getting the culture of Ukrainian Borshch cooking to be listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, is the special guest on the episode.

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Try Ukrainian cuisine with Yevhen's recipes: https://klopotenko.com/en/

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Find Yevhen here:

Twitter: https://x.com/klopotenko_chef?lang=en

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/klopotenko/?hl=en

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Today's episode is about Lesya Ukrainka. A feminist and political activist, she is one of Ukraine's most famous and beloved writers to this day. Lesay was a leading figure in the modernist movement and the development of Ukrainian literature.

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"No! I am alive, I will live forever. I have that in my heart, which does not die..." - Lesya Ukrainka, The Forest Song

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Full version of Lesya Ukrainka's "The Forest Song" in English: https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/English/Ukrainka/Ukrainka-ForestSong.pdf

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The music in the background and at the very end of the episode is "Farewell. Waltz in C Minor, Op. 39, No. 1" by the phenomenal composer Mykola Lysenko. The song at the end of the episode is "Як дитиною, бувало" ("As a child, I sometimes") by Mike Udlis, with the lyrics being Lesya Ukrainka's poem of the same name.

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Today's episode is about the weapons and strategy used by the Cossacks in battles and wars. In particular, Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyy and how he saved Europe in the War of Khotyn.

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Image of troops in the War of Khotyn: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Battle_of_Khotyn_1673.PNG

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The music at the end of today's episode is "Їхав Козак За Дунай" ("The Cossack Rode Beyond the Danube") by Semen Klymovsky - Ukrainian philosopher, poet and Cossack. The background music throughout the episode is "Kyiv" by Oskar Schuster.

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Fun Fact: The song "The Cossack Rode Beyond the Danube" by Semen Klmovsky was made into a song in German and arranged for piano by Ludwig van Beethoven and Christoph August Tielde. Beethoven's version is known as "Schöne Minka, ich muß scheiden."

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