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The Ukrainian art of decorating eggs
This weekend for Easter, tykes will dye their hard-boiled eggs with effervescent-colored tablets. In Ukraine, the art of egg decorating is taken to a whole new level of intricacy. We called artist Sofika Zielyk to talk about the painstaking process of creating these meticulously crafted Ukrainian Easter eggs, called pysanky.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readThis weekend for Easter, tykes will dye their hard-boiled eggs with effervescent-colored tablets. In Ukraine, the art of egg decorating is taken to a whole new level of intricacy. We called artist Sofika Zielyk to talk about the painstaking process of creating these meticulously crafted Ukrainian Easter eggs, called pysanky. We first ran our conversation with her on the show a whole decade ago, and she’s still turning out museum-quality decorated eggs.
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The full episode
2 of 7'A Square Meal,' a kosher slaughter and Ukrainian Easter eggs- 0:00'A Square Meal'
- 11:15The Ukrainian art of decorating eggsYou’re reading this
- 17:55Jonathan Gold dines at Kismet
- 23:45Wild Fermentation 2.0
- 31:56'Hello, My Name is Ice Cream'
- 40:57The Market Report: Swiss chard
- 48:46A kosher slaughter