Hey there, welcome to Golubka Kitchen :) We are a mother and daughter team, sharing our ideas about tasty and nourishing cooking in this little corner of the internet since 2010. You can expect to find recipes that are always vegetarian, mostly vegan and sometimes raw here, with a focus on the most healthful and seasonally delicious ingredients. In the summer, we also do Ice Cream Sundays, a weekly occurrence, when we publish a whole food-based ice cream recipe with a roundup of inspiring links collected throughout the week. To give you a better idea, here are a few of our favorite dishes from the archives:
Breakfast – Pitaya Breakfast Bowl (sweet), Creamy Steel Cut Oats w/ Spring Vegetables (savory)
Salad – Vegan Cobb Salad with Watermelon Bacon
Savory – Melon Basil Summer Rolls, Roasted Eggplant & Pepper Pizza, Falafel Bowl
Sweet – Banana Toffee Tart
Ice Cream – Lavender Ice Cream with Chocolate Tahini Bits
Back in 2014, we came out with our first cookbook, The Vibrant Table, you can learn a lot more about it here, and we are currently working on our second.
ABOUT US
Anya Kassoff
Born: Northern Caucasus, Russia
Living: St. Petersburg, FL
Zodiac: Libra, a typical one
Role at GK: recipe development, ingredient research, cooking, food styling
Previously: engineering and dentistry, and lots of cooking after-hours, until realizing that cooking is the one and only true calling
Favorite food: latkes
Starting out: after the birth of my second daughter, Paloma (18 years after my first!), I ran into unexpected health issues and sought healing through a healthy diet (specifically raw), which helped me feel much better. I was very inspired by all the new culinary possibilities I was learning about and cooking constantly. Masha encouraged me to start a blog – the rest is history.
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Masha Davydova
Born: Northern Caucasus, Russia
Living: NYC
Zodiac: Capricorn, a typical one
Role at GK: photography, food styling, recipe testing, editing, boring but necessary website backend stuff
Previously: college student while starting GK, now working in fashion design
Favorite food: chocolate
Starting out: I’ve always loved reading and cooking from food blogs. One day, the idea that my mom’s (Anya’s!) impressive cooking would make for a beautiful food website struck me, and I set up this page for her. I’ve had an interest in photography for a long time, being most drawn to still life, so food photography came quite naturally to me. Nowadays, I’m very passionate about it, although I’m completely self-taught and can’t quite call myself a photographer. If you’re interested in the equipment I use for the photos on this website, there is a breakdown here.
The Name
Golubka is Russian for dove and is a version of my (Anya’s) maiden name. My younger daughter’s name, Paloma, is ‘dove’ in Spanish, so it all intersects.
Work With Us
We are available for sponsored posts, recipe and menu development, food writing and photography. For all inquiries, write to [email protected]
Questions?
If you have questions about the cooking tools and equipment we use, check out this page with the breakdown. For questions about photography equipment, head here. If you have questions about a particular recipe, leave a comment or email [email protected].