Irina Potanina's new book is an exciting culinary provocation. In a sense, the text poses a real danger to the reader: from the very first pages the aromas of tempting recipes will wash over you. You will immediately want to cook something, and other things will have to wait. The recipes presented in the book are not only not at all complicated and at the same time wonderful, but they were also not collected by chance by the author. Each is accompanied by its own literary history, associated with famous personalities who lived or simply visited Odessa, as well as with Odessa legends, tales, stories and tales. Pushkin, Akhmatova, Gogol, Franko, Utesov, Ranevskaya... Their names are forever etched in history city, and no one knows where the truth is and where... well, let's say, Odessa folklore. Distinguishing facts from tasty speculation is not so easy... However: do we need it? Let everything remain as it is! So, get, as they say, in one bottle (and in our case, in one pan!) a mixture of characteristic humor, famous personalities and special cuisine - and all this under the glaze of Odessa flavor. By the way, Recently, the Folio publishing house published another book in this series - “Kiev Cuisine” by Ilya Noyabrev.