When the day comesafter the night of dyingeverything seems so differentand yetlooking for traces of blood,and the smell of burnt meat,the scratches of bullets on the walls of my room.My trembling heart in your hands.Hide it in your eyes,lock it up in your chest.Can’t you hear them coming from the dark depthsto take everything from…
Author: Brane
How to Open a Bottle of Wine
Of course, we are talking about those real bottles of wine that are still closed with a cork stopper. Unfortunately, many bottles today are closed with a metal cap. Some with plastic fake cork. And wine in a tetrapak is also available… without comment.So to open classic bottles we need a corkscrew.The Cambridge Dictionary records…
Having Capuccino in New York
New York in the Gay Eighteen Nineties had almost everything, except for a place where an opera lover, after a night of Verdi or Puccini, could relax, play a Neapolitan card game called “Scopa” and drink a cup or two of espresso.The story behind the opening of the oldest paticceria in the U.S. in 1892…
Narrow-leaved and Broad-leaved Plantain
We know two types of plantain, broad-leaved and narrow-leaved. Both are useful for similar purposes, except that the broad-leaved one is more effective in healing wounds, while the narrow-leaved one is most often used to relieve colds. Both species are characterized by leaves with visible longitudinal veins, but they differ noticeably mainly in the shape…
Samarkand Bread
One hot July in 2015, on the way from Andijan to Tashkent, I came across a roadside bread stand.What a wealth of smell, shape, taste…Samarkand non or “Samarkand bread” is a traditional bread from Uzbekistan. It is a very popular bread that accompanies the numerous dishes of the traditional Uzbek cuisine.It differs in its sizes,…
How I Swallowed the Beating Heart of a Cobra
What can we say about eating cobra meat?A particularly high content of linoleic acid in snake meat has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of vascular sclerosis. Snake meat is rich in calcium, magnesium and other elements. It exists in the form of protein fusion, so it can be well absorbed and utilized…
Immigrants to the USA
Illegal immigrants within the workforce are extremely vulnerable due to their status. Being illegal makes these individuals susceptible to exploitation by employers as they are more willing to work through bad conditions and low income jobs—consequently making themselves vulnerable to abuse. Most illegal migrants end up being hired by the U.S. employers who exploit the…
In the Embrace of Annapurna
I didn’t sleep well the last night before climbing the pass. I was suffering from mild altitude sickness, it was freezing cold in the small room that resembled a prison cell, and I had drunk too much tea the night before. Outside, in the “toilet”, the wind and minus twenty C. What else can you…
Hokkaido Pumpkin Soup
After a long time, let’s talk about the cuisine again.For example, about Hokkaido pumpkin soup.Hokkaido pumpkin also “Hokkaido” (Japanese: “Uchiki kuri” katakana: ウチキクリ), (scientific name Cucurbita maxima var. maxima Red Kuri) descriptive: “Japanese pumpkin”, is a cultivated subspecies of giant pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) belonging to the family pumpkin.Hokkaido pumpkins can be eaten raw, cooked in…
Four Days in Baku
In April 2018, I traveled to Baku, Azerbaijan via Constantinople. The reason for the journey was quite unusual. For my upcoming photography exhibition on architecture in Iran, I wanted to exhibit some photographs of the Heydar Aliyev Center as a counterweight. I wanted to contrast the “masculine” Muslim architecture of medieval Iran with the contemporary…