(From Olha Franko's book "Practical Kitchen", 1929) Olha-Maria Franko was the youngest daughter of the priest Teodor Bilevych and Olha née Bazylevych. Dziunya, as the child was affectionately called, was born in the village of Vyriv in the Kamyanets district (now the Kam'yanka-Buzka district of Lviv Oblast) on July 23, 1896. Grandmother loved to recall…
(From Olha Franko's <em>Practical Kitchen</em>, 1929) Kraków kasha is the hulled and finely cracked kernel of buckwheat — the <em>hrechanyi prodil</em>. In southern Poland, buckwheat was once called <em>kasza tatarczana</em>, and its arrival was attributed to the Tatars. The 1926 weekly journal « Społem » noted: "Kraków groats are obtained from the same buckwheat, but finely hulled…"
