Oleg Opria has been involved with the kitchen for 34 years, comes from a family of cooks, and serves homemade sausages at Art-cafe Obshchaga in Odesa.
I’m 52, and I remember those dormitories. I’ve been involved with the kitchen for 34 years, deeply involved, and I don’t regret it. After all, my father worked as a cook for more than 50 years! By the way, my son has also been cooking for more than 10 years, so I can say we are cooks by birth.
I try not to have any favorites. I try to cook, and to teach others to cook, so that our work brings people happiness and pleasure and so that people who come to our café feel at home and gladly come back.
Maybe it’s not very original, but I like fishing, especially the evening atmosphere around a steaming cauldron of fragrant fish broth. It’s a pity we can’t bring that atmosphere into our kitchen, but we try.
I chose the dish “half a meter of sausages” because the homemade sausages cooked in our café are the part of home comfort that our people miss.
I think food cooked with heart brings people closer and makes them happier. I’d like to wish happiness to all people, and a peaceful, clear sky overhead!
