An Evening with Chef Yevhen Klopotenko

Atelier Jolie welcomes The Ukrainian Museum, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, for an evening with chef Yevhen Klopotenko.

Drawing on his cookbook, Klopotenko will lead a conversation, cooking demonstration, and tasting exploring the artistry of Borshch and the preservation of cultural memory across generations.

To defend Ukrainian heritage against cultural appropriation, Yevhen founded a dedicated non-governmental organization and spent four years leading culinary historians and ethnographers across every region of Ukraine to gather regional recipes, photographic evidence and family oral history. His painstaking research led directly to Ukrainian borscht being inscribed on UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.