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Friday, 12 March 2010

Cuisines


Pumpkin head!

If you wish to insult somebody in Bulgarian, you could call him tikvenik – a word whose Full Story



Turkey
Turkey's Cuisine: The Tastes that Flew Away

A glance at old Turkish cookbooks reveals a staggering array of dishes made with poultry and game birds. Full Story


Kosovo
Kosovo Winemaking Badly Hit After Independence and Serbia’s Boycott

November 2009 | Kosovo’s total wine exports have decreased by more than half Full Story


Bulgaria
Sofia Hosts Armenian Cuisine Festival

November 2009 | A festival of Armenian cuisine, hosted by the restaurant Vratata and the winery Villa Yustina Full Story


Macedonia
Restaurant “Yugoslavia” to Open in Macedonia’s Capital

October 2009 | In the latest move marked by nostalgia for the socialist past, a new restaurant named “Yugoslavia” will soon open its doors in Skopje. Full Story


Bulgaria
Brown Fingers’ Season in Bulgaria

Every September, expats and attentive tourists in Bulgaria notice the coming of a kind of local fashion wave – Full Story


Kosovo
Kosovo: Pristina’s Best Qebaptores

As much as we might hate to admit it, everyone of us regularly gets that yearning for a plate of those meaty bundles of joy most of the region refers to as qebapa.
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Macedonia
Italian Artists Makes Macedonia Salad as Performance in Skopje

2 September 2009 | The performance “Macedonia!” by Italian artist Silvio Palladino will be held at Skopje’s Stone Bridge on Wednesday evening, starting at 7:16 pm. Full Story


Balkans
Bulgaria’s Exclusive Ownership of Shopska Salad Challenged

11 August 2009 | The ownership of shopska salad – considered by Bulgarians as one of the few dishes that is truly their own, was challenged by a Serbian publication claiming that the salad is in fact a pan-Slavic one.
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Bulgaria
Say “TA-RA-TOR”

When, in 1994, Hristo Stoichkov scored the decisive goal against Germany and took Bulgaria to the half-finals Full Story




Curiosity Chest


Serbia
The Student Cultural Centre in Belgrade, Serbia

Throughout the ups and downs in Serbia’s recent history, the Student Cultural Centre (SKC) has always been a safe haven for city artists, a place to go to remove themselves from the everyday and express themselves freely. Full Story



Useful Reads


Bosnia and Herzegovina
Povratak | By Snjezana Mulic

A powerful new novel follows the fortunes of five Bosnians, trying and not always succeeding, to find their way home. Full Story




Music


Serbia
EXIT Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia: Overnight Exile in the Fortress

Located roughly in the middle between Bulgaria's Black Sea and Croatia’s Adriatic coasts, which are both shaken by high-energy rock parties each July, Novi Sad hosts one of the most significant summer festivals on the Balkans – EXIT. As fans from all parts of the region start to gather in the town for for this year’s event, scheduled to take place between July 10 and 13, Mila Popova recounts about the time she spent at the festival last summer.

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