1933 Ukrainian cookbook

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Mykola Mykhaylovych Bondarenko was born in 1949 in village of Dmytrivka in the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine. He graduated from the Kharkiv School of Art in 1972, and taught drawing and worked as an interior designer. Bondarenko’s work includes portraits, landscapes, book illustrations, and the thematic cycles Ukraine 1933: A Cookbook, Slovo o Polku Ihorevim (The Epic of Ihor’s Campaign), Shevchenkiada, and Khata Moya, Bila Khata (My House, My White House).

From early childhood Bondarenko loved to listen to reminiscences about village life, and he wanted to tell the story of the Holodomor (the artificial famine of 1932-33) in his own personal way. Survivors had told him about the unbelievable “menu” that provided their meager nourishment, and he decided
to portray not the emaciated peasants, but rather the food which they were forced to eat in order to survive.

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