By Mary Beth Lawlor

Renowned chef and owner of Good News Restaurant and Bar in Woodbury, Carole (Pidhorodecky) Peck is raising money for Ukraine. 

In 1907 all of Peck’s grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine, leaving their families behind for a new and “hopefully” free life in America. Which, thankfully, they found. She was raised as a Ukie kid, all holidays were celebrated with the traditional food and by going to Ukrainian church. In the summers they would vacation at a Ukrainian resort in the Catskills. At age 16 she and her parents visited their relatives in Ukraine, where it was quite a life awakening experience for her. Now, feeling helpless, Peck is offering an additional traditional Ukrainian menu at Good News Restaurant and Bar to raise money for World Central Kitchen and their refugee relief efforts. Peck invites her guests to savor these special offerings.

The additional Ukrainian menu will continue to change but as of this writing, a sampling of the menu includes a spring salad made of cucumbers, radishes, scallions, and walnuts, on a watercress bed with sour cream vinaigrette; handmade pierogies; seabass covered in a mixed mushroom sauce and parsnips puree; Ukrainian Apple Cake (Yabluchnyk) with whipped cream and brown sugar syrup.