A new book looks at the complex past of one of Europe’s most simple dishes: Romania’s once ubiquitous mămăligă. Apparently, these are good times for mămăligă, a simple...
Tag - Food
Bulgaria’s climate and soil are ideal for the growth of truffles, but the cultivation and commercialisation of this most expensive of delicacies are being hampered...
A Slovenian start-up is taking a radical approach to plant-based, meat-like products. Instead of creating burgers and ‘chicken’ nuggets, they have developed...
Trade and investment between emerging Europe and South Korea is booming. Cultural exchanges less so. However, one Polish-Bulgarian chef who rose to stardom in South...
Imprisoned for belonging to a fascist organisation during World War II, Zlata Bartl would go on to create one of the most-used ingredients in Yugoslav cooking. As a...
The Covid-19 pandemic is changing the way we eat, with the number of British consumers turning to a plant-based diet growing faster than ever. In June this year, there...
The food in emerging Europe is good, and don’t let anyone ever tell you any different. Internationally, however, Central and Eastern European cuisine has not quite...
Whenever I hear Balkan food described as drab I feel a twitch of sadness. Balkan cuisine is easily comparable to the highly evolved cuisines of Italy and France. I say...
The European Commission on May 20 formally launched its comprehensive new biodiversity strategy to bring nature back into our lives, as well as its much-heralded Farm to...
Thirty years ago, on March 11, 1990, Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union. To join the nation-wide commemoration effort, restaurants in Vilnius, the...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
