At Kachka, Chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales cherishes her Jewish-Russian roots

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Francis Lam has admired Chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales of Portland’s Kachka for years. Not just because her food is delicious and her new book Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking is beautiful, but also because she's one of the few chefs in the country highlighting what she thinks of as the matrilineal cuisine of Russia. Francis talks with Bonnie about the influence of her immigrant family and Jewish-Russian heritage on her food. You can also try your hand at the recipe for her mother’s Three-Layer Condensed Milk Cake.

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Francis Lam

Francis Lam is the host of The Splendid Table. He is the former Eat columnist for The New York Times Magazine and is Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at Clarkson Potter. He graduated first in his class at the Culinary Institute of America and has written for numerous publications. Lam lives with his family in New York City.