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Bulgarian Pickled Vegetables — Penwhisk

Come September, our family kitchen would be transformed into a small-scale facility for making Bulgarian pickled vegetables. My mother and…

Mar 6, 2020

Bulgarian Pickled Vegetables — Penwhisk

Mar 6, 2020

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Broccoli Lasagna the Bulgarian Way — Penwhisk

Broccoli lasagna isn’t part of the Bulgarian national cuisine. There’s no Italian influence on the cooking of my native country. The…

Feb 21, 2020

Broccoli Lasagna the Bulgarian Way — Penwhisk

Feb 21, 2020

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Bulgarian Mineral Water — Penwhisk

After fifteen years, not much seems to have changed on the Sofia — Plovdiv railway line. Still, things look strange to me in an unsettling…

Nov 1, 2018

Bulgarian Mineral Water — Penwhisk

Nov 1, 2018

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Kozunak

The list of ingredients in my grandmother’s Kozunak, the sweet bread she baked on Holy Saturday before Orthodox Easter, was as follows:

Jul 22, 2018

Kozunak

Jul 22, 2018

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Cooking with Yotam Ottolenghi

How the famous Israeli-British chef taught me that I had more in common with those who appeared to be different from me than I might think

Jun 6, 2018

Cooking with Yotam Ottolenghi

Jun 6, 2018

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Mother’s Day Story

This is a story about a mother who, to her daughter’s great disappointment, refused to bake pastries that were imitations of real-life…

May 7, 2018

Mother’s Day Story

May 7, 2018

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Milk

At every breakfast I had as a child in Koprivshtitsa, my grandparents insisted that I had my cup full of milk. The milk came directly from…

Apr 2, 2018

Milk

Apr 2, 2018

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Forest Wild Strawberries

One of my earliest memories is of my grandfather taking me to pick wild strawberries in the surroundings of Koprivshtitsa, a town of some…

Mar 9, 2018

Forest Wild Strawberries

Mar 9, 2018

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penwhisk

I write stories about food, identity, politics and relationships in 1970s and 80s Communist Bulgaria. You can find my blog at www.penwhisk.org

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