Which is applicable to your view?
As a vegetarian Bulgarian, it sometimes feels that there's so little in Bulgarian cuisine that can be cooked meatless. Excluding salads, things like lyutenica/kyopolou/ayvar/zacuscΔ and the default bean/lenting soups we all eat, what are your favourite meatless dishes?
What are they?
Especially TV shows
I've had to cut out much of what I usually eat for our food, the only thing I'm almost sure is fine is Ε‘pek. Can't find any nutritional facts online and obviously it's not given to me where I buy it.
Thanks.
- Turkish Kurd
- Albanian
- Moldova (ok, ok, not exactly Balkan, but close enough - it's like the Greece/Turkey Vs Cyprus short of deal).
Do tell, what are your opinions. Are the dishes made just as they do in your country? Do you find the concept interesting?
Hi guys,
It's the quarantine time and everyone (i guess) is experimenting with different food recipes. Let's build a great collection of the best recipes from Balkans !!
Lets try to be more creative and share some not very known recipes
Looking for really good quality balkan cuisine in the area
Done some searching and I haven't come across any Balkan restaurants. We've been to Slovenia a few times and the cuisine around there and Trieste is interesting, kind of a mix of Balkan/Bavarian. Lots of meat/cabbage/potatoes/sauces etc.
I've got a hankering and wondering if anyone knows of anywhere in Sheff that does stuff like this?
What's your opinion on unions?
From your opinion, how would you introduce someone with no knowledge to Balkan cuisine?
Food stores, markets or restaurants? Iβve read about some places but Iβm not sure if they are good. Any advice, recommendation or experience would be helpful :)
Please don't say Italy. I mean the real Balkans.
If I had to pick one topic in the I/P conflict that I'm obsessed with, it's the Israeli cuisine, and the heated opposition to it from the Arab world. It's not very hard to find examples of what I'm talking about. From frequent discussions on Palestinian subreddits, to op-eds in The Washington Post, public Twitter-storms, like the one after Rachel Ray dared to call various Arab foods "Israeli food", that James Zogby described as a "cultural genocide". Even borderline-international incidents, like the infamous Hummus War between Israel and Lebanon. Hell, look up literally anything that mentions Israeli food online, and go to the comment section. You'll see at least one comment, getting incredibly upset over the use of that term.
This by itself isn't particularly interesting in the context of the I/P conflict. What's interesting is, that unlike most other issues in the conflict, the Arab position is driven not by legitimate ideological differences with the Israeli position, but by a misunderstanding of that position. How the Israelis view the "Israeli cuisine", what that cuisine contains, and what they claim about it.
It seems that the moment someone does understand the issue, he has a far greater trouble expressing the problem he has with Israeli cuisine, and what Israelis should or shouldn't do about it. Even Reem Kassis, the author of the aforementioned Washington Post op-ed, and the most nationalist cookbook I've read, sounds far more nuanced in the Zoom roundtable on the same topic, just a few months later. She's far more willing to accept the idea of an Israeli cuisine, calls the Israeli adoption of hummus and falafel is now in the legitimate realm of "cultural diffusion", and the main the she wants is "credit", and for Israelis to start using the phrase "Palestinian cuisine". This, mind you, is from a woman that wrote th
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I love south slavic cuisine, I have a blast while eating in Bosnia but other slavic cuisine don't really appeal to me except from borscht soup and beef Stroganov, so I wanted to hear your thoughts and opinions about it.
There is also cheburek and pelmeni/varenyky/pierogi of course but those exist in Turkish cuisine as well.
Do you consider that Turkey having a little stretch of the land in the peninsula and having a history of conquers is enough for them to consider them as a part of Balkans?
EDIT : Its interesting how everyone that said no got downvoted so hard, Balkans is a bunch of countries that used to be ottoman colonies and the fact is that they all fought ottomans, except for the slovenes (which could make a poll of its own if it belongs to balkans). The fact that most of the turks see themselves in balkans they see it as a fact of those territories belonging to them, either claiming through current muslims or ancestry.
As per the cuisine, our cuisine is a mix of our pre ottoman cuisines and that one, which has high persian origins in fact.
If turks nowadays claim to be a balkan country cause of the origins of the people, its the same like france claiming to be a north african country even tho they lost their foothold there.
I posted this poll just to see how many turks are in this subreddit, so we can definitely claim this one as the subbredit of the ex ottoman empire. Either way, everyone has it own mindset of where they see themselves, someone is balkan born by default (which is nothing to be proud of) and someone is a balkan wannabe.
>Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever. - Michael Kenna
Preface
Usually when I am alone and things are quiet a peculiar thought crosses my mind. In four or five years the current student body will mostly have left Waterloo. This implies in four or five there will be a time that no one (or very few) will understand what is meant by Feridun or Mr. Panino's if it were to come up in conversation.
Unfortunately, relentless consumption is one of the sad truths of time. Still... I never thought that I would one day be sentimental for a restaurant called Mr. Panino's Beijing House and renowned for its ability to give one stomach cancer.
One day I hope to write about my final time eating at the legendary restaurant, but for now I wish to document the rise and fall of this once great establishment so that it may be forever cemented in the history of the university plaza.
I would like to thank u/mutantlog for compiling a ton of this information on his Tumblr blog. You truly are a hero to all uwaterloo historians.
Earliest Traces
We go back to the year 1999, I had just been born and Mr. Panino opens its doors to the world. However it is a far cry from the Beijing eatery we know today.
The earliest known mention of Mr. Panino online is archived in the kw.eats google group. Our very own professor Prabhakar Ragde writes:
>Has anyone gone to any of the other new places in this Plaza,
like Mr Panino or the Pita Factory? I'm not expecting much but
Seoul Soul shows the place still has the capacity to surprise
me. --PR
At the time, I am sure everyone was completely unaware of what lied in the future of this humble restaurant.
The Italian Era
There are still many questions left unanswered. For one, What was Mr. Panino's? The name seems to imply some sort of Italian cuisine. This question remained unanswered until April 6th, 2020 when u/mutantlog was doing tracking down a phone number for work. He came across a November 28, 2001 edition of **The Cord (**Laurier's student newspaper) and what he found was groundbreaking:
[A Mr. Panino's coupon found in the November 28, 2001 edition of 'The Cord'](https://preview.redd.it/c66yofyjkio71.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=165f3c1ceba7590f7288a1
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Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Happy weekend everyone!
Here are 10 questions about food, all of which start with F and the answers in are ascending alphabetical order. I'm sure you'll figure it out. Enjoy!
Questions:
- Which traditional Middle Eastern food, commonly served in a pita, is a deep-fried fritter made from ground chickpeas?
- What type of pasta is commonly known as bow-tie pasta or butterfly pasta?
- What is a highly aromatic and flavourful herb used in cooking, having a similar taste to anise?
- What is a very thin unleavened dough used for making pastries such as baklava and bΓΆrek in Middle Eastern and Balkan cuisines?
- A "bunch" of bananas is also known as a "hand", what are individual bananas are called?
- Billingsgate, located in Canary Wharf in London, is the United Kingdom's largest inland market for what?
- What is the Swiss melted cheese dish served in a communal pot over a portable stove heated with a candle or spirit lamp?
- What creamy, soft, fresh cheese originating from the north of France and the south of Belgium means "white cheese" in French?
- Name the simple sugar found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose?
- What is made by mixing sugar, butter and milk, heating it, then beating while it cools to acquire a smooth, creamy consistency?
Answers:
- >!Falafel#####!<
- >!Farfalle####!<
- >!Fennel#####!<
- >!Filo#######!<
- >!Fingers####!<
- >!Fish#######!<
- >!Fondue####!<
- >!Fromage blanc!<
- >!Fructose###!<
- >!Fudge#####!<
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
Theyβre on standbi
Buenosdillas
Pilot on me!!
Just arrived in Vancouver for the long weekend. Are there any delicious, local, authentic restaurants for any type of cuisines in Vancouver like Greek or Turkish? I really want to try something new since I always try the same places every time I come here. Thanks
