Alissa Timoshkina

Alissa Timoshkina is a London-based food writer, historian, cookbook author, and campaigner specializing in Eastern European food culture. Born in Siberia and educated in film studies in the UK, she later moved from academia and arts work into food writing, launching the KinoVino supper club in 2015 and publishing her debut cookbook Salt and Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen in 2019. She co-founded the #CookforUkraine fundraising campaign in 2022 and later published Kapusta: Vegetable-Forward Recipes from Eastern Europe.