BALTIMORE — The recipe hadn’t been written down anywhere. Like so many cherished family traditions, it was a gift of memory, passed down through generations. Until, that is, it reached Orest Hanas.
The former food scientist for spice maker McCormick & Company held onto his family’s recipe for medivka, a Ukrainian honey liqueur popular at Christmastime and during other celebrations, and not only dared to document it ― he experimented with it. Perfected it, he might say, over decades.
Now, he’s teamed up with the Baltimore Spirits Company to produce a special edition, the sale of which benefits Doctors Without Borders, a group supporting medical workers in Ukraine, working on the front lines amid the Russian invasion.
