This year, baking Ukrainian Easter bread feels different



Soon it will be Easter and following the traditions of my Mennonite ancestors, I will make paska, a Ukrainian Easter bread.

This year I struggle with how to think about this family tradition. Invading soldiers have swarmed over the area from which a century ago my relatives fled Russian bloodshed. Once again it is a place of war. My maternal relatives lived in the Donetsk District, currently an occupied part of Ukraine….

Read the rest at the Globe and Mail…

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-person/article-ukrainian-easter-bread/



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