Glafira Dorosh

Glafira Vasilyevna Dorosh (; ; 5 January 1921 – 17 September 2015) was a Ukrainian chef from the village of Ulanov, Vinnytsia Oblast, who invented Potato Ulanov. She is the only recipient of a Soviet Order for a culinary recipe.

Glafira Dorosh started to work at age 14. As her mother was a cook she found work in a local eatery as well. Later she graduated from a culinary school in Kiev. During World War II Ukraine was occupied by Nazi Germany, and Dorosh was sent to work in Germany in a weapons factory in Nuremberg. Sometimes the women obtained raw potatoes and tried to invent new ways to prepare them.

After the war she returned to Ukraine and worked in a restaurant in the village of Ulanov, Vinnytsia Oblast. There they made twenty different dishes out of potatoes. The Ulanov potatoes were invented accidentally from a batch of small leftover potatoes that restaurant management allowed the cooks to use for themselves (in 1947 food was precious). She fried the potatoes in leftover oil (from potatoes stuffed with meat) and put garlic sauce on them. The dish was considered tasty enough to include on the menu of the restaurant.