Archive - Flour Power: by Felicity Spector

Closely Observed Trains

Ukrainian Railways - Ukrzaliznitsya - is the best train company in the world. With the motto - Iron Bravery. And here’s why.

Jun 3 •

Felicity Spector

May 2025

Military kitchen

The day two soldiers from Kherson cooked me lunch - and told me about their work and why they volunteered to join up.

May 12 •

Felicity Spector

April 2025

How to write a book

From commission to publication it’s been a journey - logistics, unpaid leave, months in Ukraine - and then the actual writing, after I’d gone back to…

Apr 27 •

Felicity Spector

March 2025

Rising from the ruins

Kharkiv’s five star Palace Hotel was shattered by a direct Russian missile strike at the end of 2023. We went inside to see the damage - and the long…

Mar 30 •

Felicity Spector

Learning underground

Several metres below ground in Kharkiv, hundreds of children are having lessons in specially built underground schools - their first in person classes…

Mar 18 •

Felicity Spector

A recording from Felicity Spector's live video

Mar 14 •

Felicity Spector

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LIVE CHAT TODAY!

Join me and Tim Mak from The Counteroffensive at 12.30 GMT today as part of the Grubstack virtual food festival!

Mar 14 •

Felicity Spector

February 2025

From the rich clay of Ukraine’s Donetsk region and a ceramics workshop in Kyiv - a young artist is making plates and tiles for a new Ukrainian…

Feb 20 •

Felicity Spector

Better your neighbour

We can all do better when we help each other: some hopefully positive lessons from Ukraine

Feb 9 •

Felicity Spector

January 2025

Bread for the people

An update on our Bake for Ukraine mobile bakeries - and an insight into a recent trip to see the Mykolaiv bakery at work

Jan 19 •

Felicity Spector

Cooking varenyky in the catacombs

Deep below Odesa there’s a 2,500km network of tunnels - and I joined a group of young civic activists for a Ukrainian dinner down in the catacombs.

Jan 5 •

Felicity Spector

December 2024

Bread & War: coming soon in 2025

Dec 30, 2024 •

Felicity Spector

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