--- title: "Food Blogger Emilia Yevtushenko: Why She Never Orders Pancakes at a Restaurant and What She Simply Doesn't Like" description: "Ukrainian food blogger Emilia Yevtushenko told Wave RBC.UA in an interview that she never orders pancakes and syrniki at restaurants, and that among popular dishes she doesn't care for oysters and desserts overloaded with decor." date: 2026-08-29T09:10:01.000Z lang: en url: https://xab.info/en/posts/food-blogger-emilia-yevtushenko-on-food-blog-and-cooking-en tags: [food-blogging, emilia-evtushenko, cooking, lifestyle, interview] publisher: "XAB.info" --- # Food Blogger Emilia Yevtushenko: Why She Never Orders Pancakes at a Restaurant and What She Simply Doesn't Like ![Food blogger Emilia Evlushenko in a white jacket against an autumn tree background — the subject of the article on her food preferences](https://xab.info/media/2026/08/29/fudblogerka-emilia-evtushenko-o-ele-i-blog/fudblogerka-emilia-evtushenko-o-ele-i-blog-1.webp) ## 🎯 Key Points - Emilia Yevtushenko explains that after food became her job, she looks at every dish as a recipe and an opportunity for experimentation. - She never orders pancakes or syrniki at restaurants because she can make them at home in 15 minutes, the way she likes them. - She doesn't care for decor-loaded "super Instagrammable" desserts or oysters, which she perceives more as a restaurant ritual. - Her favorite taste of childhood is Segedin goulash, and her fridge always has eggs, butter, cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, herbs, and vegetables. The well-known Ukrainian food blogger Emilia Yevtushenko told a lifestyle project [Wave RBC.UA](https://wave.rbc.ua/ukr/insider/fudblogerka-emiliya-evtushenko-yizhu-blog-1787914532.html) in a blitz interview how working in the food industry changed her view on food, which dishes she considers the taste of childhood, and what she categorically never orders at restaurants. In her words, food has long ceased to be just food for her: now she sees a new recipe and an opportunity for experimentation in every dish. ### Food as a Job: A Professional's Perspective Yevtushenko admits that her attitude toward food changed once it became her profession. "Before, food was just food: you'd cook it and eat it. Now I look at it in a completely different way," the blogger says. She explains that she constantly thinks about what can be changed in a dish, how to make it tastier, simpler, and more beautiful, and how to film it. Even at a restaurant, she can sit there and break a dish down into its ingredients. At the same time, her love for food, she says, hasn't disappeared anywhere — on the contrary, she has come to appreciate ordinary home cooking even more. ### The Taste of Childhood: Segedin Goulash Among her favorite childhood and home flavors, Yevtushenko names Segedin goulash. "Sauerkraut, meat, sour cream — it seems like nothing unusual, but it's exactly these simple home dishes that stick in your memory the most," she explains. The blogger adds that even now, when she cooks this dish, it's not just food for her, but "some kind of very warm return to childhood." ### What's Always in the Fridge In her list of products without which she can't imagine her fridge are eggs, butter, good cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, herbs, and some vegetables. In addition, her freezer almost always has something prepared in it, because she loves meal prep. "With three kids, this is no longer a cooking trend but a way of surviving," Yevtushenko notes. ### What She Never Orders at Restaurants When asked about dishes she never orders at restaurants, the blogger answers: "Probably pancakes or syrniki (cheese cakes)." She emphasizes that it's not because they're bad, but because at home she makes exactly the kind she loves. "I feel sorry for the restaurant bill for something I can make myself in 15 minutes — and even make it tastier for me," she explains. She separately singles out what she doesn't like in general: most "super Instagrammable" desserts with a huge amount of decor. "They may look incredible, but when there are ten textures, five creams, glaze, chocolate, flowers, and something else on top — I already lose the actual taste of the dessert," Yevtushenko says. ### Professional Deformation and Oysters Among her surprising gastronomic habits, she mentions that she can try something at a restaurant and already be thinking on the way home about how to recreate it and what to change. "Sometimes a single spoonful of some dish triggers a whole recipe in my head. I think it's professional deformation," the blogger admits. As for the dish that she simply doesn't like yet — oysters: "I honestly tried to understand why there's so much excitement around them, but for now it's more of a beautiful restaurant ritual for me than food I actually want to eat." ## 🔍 Fact-Check Verification - [Food Blogger Emilia Yevtushenko on Food, Blog, and Cooking: "A Single Spoonful of a Dish Triggers a Whole Recipe"](https://wave.rbc.ua/ukr/insider/fudblogerka-emiliya-evtushenko-yizhu-blog-1787914532.html) - Блиц-интервью: отношение к еде как работе, вкус детства (сегединский гуляш), список продуктов в холодильнике, блюда, которые не заказывает в ресторанах (оладьи, сырники), неприятие перегруженных декором десертов и устриц, привычка «одна ложка запускает рецепт». ## ❓ FAQ ### Q: What does Emilia Yevtushenko never order at restaurants? **A:** She says she never orders pancakes or syrniki at restaurants because she can make them at home in 15 minutes, the way she likes them. ### Q: What taste of childhood does the blogger name? **A:** Her favorite taste of childhood and home is Segedin goulash: sauerkraut, meat, and sour cream. ### Q: What popular dishes does she simply not like? **A:** She doesn't like most "super Instagrammable" desserts with a lot of decor, as well as oysters, which she considers more of a beautiful restaurant ritual than food. ### Q: What's always in her fridge? **A:** Eggs, butter, good cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, herbs, and vegetables, and in the freezer — prepared meal-prep items.