V knigu Sergeya Parhomenko «Vsyo snachala» voshli 56 ocherkov, napisannyh v period s 2004 po 2017 god. Eto — nastoyaschaya hronologiya chelovecheskoy zhizni, kaleydoskop vpechatleniy i perezhivaniy avtora, kotorogo my privykli videt v roli izvestnoy obschestvenno-politicheskoy figury — zhurnalista, izdatelya i radioveduschego. I kotoromu na etot raz udalos sozdat sovershenno unikalnyy zhanr — gastronomicheskuyu avtobiografiyu, v kotoroy putevye zametki, ostroumnye nablyudeniya i vpechatleniya soprovozhdayutsya podrobnym retseptom originalnogo blyuda, ot midiy v belom vine i befstroganova do schey so snetkami i vanilnoy panna-kotty. Kniga delitsya na dve chasti — «Gastronomicheskaya geografiya», v kotoruyu voshli syuzhety, napryamuyu sootnosimye s opredelennoy tochkoy v prostranstve i vremeni (kak, naprimer, CHikago 1993 ili Kiev 2014 goda) i «Gastronomicheskaya filosofiya», gde pisatel svobodno predaetsya razmyshleniyam o samyh raznyh storonah chelovecheskoy zhizni, sootnosya ih, opyat zhe, s opredelennym retseptom.