The final premium--a small collection of recipes from our travels.  We hope you enjoy them and thanks again for your generous support of the project.  To collect your recipes,  just click on the link below and download the pdf.

http://ge.tt/9Ac7Up6?c

We'll be returning to Ukraine in mid-October for our series of food conversations.  Don't forget to like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to keep up with our adventures.

Thanks again for your great generosity!

Linda and Sarah

We're in Ukraine, just having spent a few days in Kyiv and now arrived in Donetsk, in the far eastern part of the country.  A lovely home dinner in Kyiv,  markets around the city and meeting with our Kyiv partner, the Ivan Honchar Museum.

Check out the blog for a market report.   And don't forget to like us on Facebook--you'll get all the updates.

Your premiums are arriving in your mailbox--thanks again for all your support in making this  journey possible. 

Included here,  a look at premiums that successfully made their way back from Ukraine in my carry-on luggage.  Pysanky, painted eggs,  purchased at different locations around the city and the small clay animals arrived in my hands in a typical Ukrainian way.  I made a phone call to a friend, who called his cousin in Opishne,  who called the elderly toy maker (these are actually whistles),  picked them up from her, gently wrapped them and entrusted them to the care of the driver of the mashrutka (bus) between Opishne and Kyiv.  Picked up and conveyed to me.  These informal systems, from markets to transport,  help make Ukraine the place that it is.

We're now working on postcards and are finalizing recipes to send to you.   Thanks for your patience as we get all our premiums together and please, keep reading the blog.  If you're in the Catskills,  I'll be talking about the Pickle Project on May 4 at the Andes, NY Roundtable and later in the summer on August 18 at the West Kortright Centre.  And if you're a museum person headed to the AAM meeting in Houston,  I'll be doing an Organizational Skills Lab on using Kickstarter, with this as an example,  on Wednesday,  May 25.

Thanks again for your support and interest.

Linda

Hi Backers--

If you pledged and selected premiums, then you should have received a survey asking for info so we can fulfill that pledge.  Any questions, please just let us know.

And don't forget to check out the newest blog entry:  a trip to the antique market here in Kyiv yielded a wonderful collection of historic photographs of farming.   I'm back in Kyiv for a few weeks for other projects, so look for some additional market photos as well, as, I hope, spring begins to emerge.

Thanks again, all of you, for your amazing support.

Linda