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This is Moshe Radio from Pierre-Ex. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

Today it's my interview with Ukrainian chef author and activist,

Olya Hercules. She shares recipes and stories from her home and how she's coping after almost

one year of war. To be completely honest with you, when the war started, I was completely

delibitated for about three months. I couldn't eat and I couldn't cook. In fact, I was really worried

that I've lost that power, that resource that I had of something that could cure my mental state

in some way. But then when my parents left Ukraine and they were safe, I actually went to meet them

in Italy and I cooked for them. And I regained that power. I regained that ability to cook.

We'll hear from Olya later in the show. First, we're heading to the boundary

Waters Canoe area, wilderness in northern Minnesota, where Dorothy Maltese sold hundreds of bottles of

root beer every day to summer tourists from the 1950s until her death in 1986.

Jess Edberg, executive director of the Dorothy Maltese Museum in Ely, Minnesota, is here to help

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