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title: "\"One Spoonful of a Dish Triggers an Entire Recipe\": Food Blogger Emilia Yevtushenko Reveals What She Never Orders in Restaurants"
description: "Ukrainian food blogger Emilia Yevtushenko told a Wave RBC.UA interview that she never orders pancakes and cheese pancakes in restaurants, and considers oysters a beautiful ritual rather than food. She named Szeged goulash the absolute taste of her childhood."
date: 2026-08-28T13:34:06.000Z
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# "One Spoonful of a Dish Triggers an Entire Recipe": Food Blogger Emilia Yevtushenko Reveals What She Never Orders in Restaurants

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Well-known Ukrainian food blogger Emilia Yevtushenko told a bлиц-interview for the lifestyle project Wave by RBC-Ukraine how working in the gastronomy field has changed her perception of food, which dishes she categorically refuses to order in restaurants, and what she considers the absolute taste of her childhood. According to Yevtushenko, once cooking became her profession, food stopped being just food: "Before, I'd cook and we'd eat. Now I look at it in a completely different way. I'm constantly thinking: what can I change here, how to make it tastier, simpler, more beautiful, how to film it." Even in a restaurant, she says, she can sit there and break a dish down into its ingredients.

### Professional Deformation: From a Spoonful of a Dish to an Entire Recipe

The most surprising culinary habit Yevtushenko named is her ability to instantly "decode" other people's dishes. "I can try something in a restaurant and then, still on my way home, I'm already thinking about how to recreate it and what I'd change. Sometimes a single spoonful of a dish triggers an entire recipe in my head. I guess that's professional deformation," the blogger admitted. At the same time, she emphasizes that her love for food hasn't disappeared anywhere: on the contrary, she has come to appreciate ordinary home cooking even more.

### Szeged Goulash and the Products That Never Leave Her Fridge

The absolute taste of childhood and home for Yevtushenko is Szeged goulash. "Sauerkraut, meat, sour cream — it seems like nothing unusual, but it's exactly these simple home dishes that are remembered the most. Even now, when I cook it, it's not just food for me, but some very warm return to childhood," she recalls. The blogger's fridge almost always has eggs, butter, good cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, herbs, and vegetables. The freezer takes a separate place, stocked with prepared dishes: "With three kids, this is no longer a culinary trend, it's a way of surviving," Yevtushenko jokes.

### What She Never Orders in Restaurants

When asked about dishes she categorically does not order at restaurants, the food blogger named pancakes (oladyi) and cheese pancakes (syrniki). "Not because they're bad, but because at home I make exactly the kind I love. I feel sorry for the restaurant bill for something I can cook myself in 15 minutes — and make it even to my own taste," she explained. Yevtushenko separately called out "super-Instagrammable desserts" with a huge amount of decoration: "They may look incredible, but when there are ten textures, five creams, glaze, chocolate, flowers, and something else on top — I've already lost the actual taste of the dessert." As for oysters, she says she has honestly tried to understand them, but so far for her it's "more of a beautiful restaurant ritual than food I actually want to eat."

### Motivation and the Blog as Part of Life

The main motivator for continuing to run her blog, Yevtushenko says, is feedback from her audience: "When someone writes, 'I've never baked bread before, but with your help I managed to,' or sends a photo of their first Easter cake or a dinner for the family — that's very motivating." The blogger herself admits she can't stand still: "I constantly want to come up with a new recipe, a new feature, test something. For me, the blog has long since become not just a job, but a bigger part of my life."

## 🔍 Fact-Check Verification

- [Food Blogger Emilia Yevtushenko on Food, Blogging, and Cooking: "One Spoonful of a Dish Triggers an Entire Recipe"](https://wave.rbc.ua/ukr/taste/fudblogerka-emiliya-evtushenko-yizhu-blog-1787914532.html) - Подтверждено по источнику wave.rbc.ua