“Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love” – Turkish ProverbTurkey and Turkish coffee. Perfect association. After all, we are well-known coffee drinkers in the Balkans (where we also belong just a little). Bosnia and Serbia were part of the Ottoman Empire anyway. And the first cafes in Europe were…
Category: food
Semolina Dumplings
We are still with the beef broth. And we are thinking about what to put in it. The most common supplement is soup noodles, thin, with or without eggs. Which cook quickly.But today we will have fun with semolina dumplings. Don’t be afraid. It is something simplest and fastest you can do. It takes you…
Homemade Beef Soup
Beef soup with noodles is practically a Slovenian national dish. It is a must on the table on Sundays.Many others consider beef soup to be their own. But only within the Viennese cuisine the soup plays a major role. The classic Viennese beef soup is the unchallenged favorite at the table and is actually called…
Kir Maison at Brasserie Lipp
What could be better than a combination of a famous drink and a famous pub.September 1987. Three weeks of autumn pleasure in Paris. When you throw yourself in the everyday life of the locals, when you have a weekly ticket for the bus, metro and suburban train. Every morning I took the train from Andrésy…
My Grandmother, Cook at the Imperial Court
My grandmother, a tiny woman with a big heart and golden hands. When I say imperial court, I am talking about the Austro-Hungarian court in Vienna. As a young girl, she went to Vienna and got a job in the court kitchen. I have no idea what exactly she was doing, but it has to…
Jack Kerouac and I at Sam Wo’s in San Francisco
Jack Kerouac. My favorite writer of the beat generation of the fifties. I have no idea how many times I’ve read his book On the Road. Definitely every time I went on a trip to the US. And I always wondered if I was more Sal or Dean.And so in the summer of 2001 I…