Hello everyone! My name is Tatyana Nazaruk, I am the author of this project.
I have lived most of my life in Minsk, Belarus. That’s where I started my culinary career.
I graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Belarusian State University and worked as an editor in an Internet advertising agency. In the summer of 2007 I decided to share my family’s recipes on the Internet, and my husband and I created my first cooking blog in Russian – VkusnyBlog.com.
Back then, in the beginning, I was armed with a lot of enthusiasm, a simple compact camera, and a set of horribly unphotogenic kitchen utensils and dishes. I cooked and photographed in a very small kitchen with poor lighting. My first pictures were a disaster. But it didn’t embarrass me or my early readers at the time.
But I was learning all the time.
I learned all the basic cooking techniques, mastered raw photography, and learned how to edit photos. Over the years, I’ve amassed an arsenal of photo equipment, boxes of props, and two shelves of plates, bowls, cups, and other dinnerware.
I have read thousands of pages of professional books and attended hundreds of different training courses, internships, congresses, and master classes.
I spent tens of thousands of hours in the kitchen, working on practical skills, cooking over 5,000 different dishes and preparing tens of tons of food.
I became a professional chef, worked with restaurants and catering companies, developing menus, and training chefs.
Over the years, 10 books of my recipes have been published. In my arsenal – a bunch of gold and silver medals from professional cooking competitions, shoots in TV shows, and trips to Europe with master classes.
After all these years, I am still learning, developing, and living the cuisine.
Have I regretted for a moment that my diploma in philology has been lying in a dusty closet somewhere for more than 18 years? Not at all.
Today I am a professional chef and pastry chef, a food stylist, a professional cooking course instructor, and a cookbook author.
And I share all my experience, knowledge, and skills with you, my dear readers.