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Food: "Eating is something political"

With Barbara Maier, cultural and scientific mediator, and publisher and author Lojze Wieser, Antje Mayer undertook a culinary voyage of discovery

Eating and drinking connect people

Susan Milford and Barbara Schmied-Länger, two experts on Eastern Europe, came up with the unusual idea of looking at the theme of expansion from a different viewpoint. The outcome is the cookery book "Europas unbekannte Küche". A culinary journey through (still) unfamiliar terrain.

“Halušky are a bit like ravioli”

The young Marcel Ihnačák is at present the hottest chef in Slovakia. He saw “his first seafood” in a Prague restaurant. Later he went to London to do an apprenticeship with British star cook Jamie Oliver. At the restaurant Liviano in Bratislava he spoils his guests not with local fare, but with Tuscan cuisine, something that still seems somewhat exotic for the Slovaks.

Queuing

There was a lot of queuing in 1980s Romania: long, tiring, humiliating, maddening, in the cold, in the rain, sometimes with no outcome. Officially, there was no queue in Socialist Romania...

“Most foodstuffs cost more in Serbia than in Western Europe”

Miljenko Dereta is one of those Serbian Intellectuals whose critical view of the social conditions in his country did not drive him into the camp of the nationalist populists, but instead led him to formulate a differentiated criticism of the changes in the country. Born in Belgrade in 1950, he was active in the Gradjanski Savez Srbije, the Socijaldemokratska unija and the Serbian anti-war movement during the 1990s. Today he is director of Civic Initiatives, a network of NGOs and civilian initiatives in Belgrade. Report spoke to him about poverty and hunger.

Recalling the taste - four culinary reminiscences

Book tip: Unknown European Cuisines

Lucullan delights without boundaries.

Book tip: Carinthian Slovene cuisine

For Lojze Wieser cooking and the preparation of meals, like literature, form the cornerstones of every culture.

Book tip: series on the cuisines of Eastern Europe

For some time now the publishing house “Verlag Die Werkstatt” has been bringing out a series of cookery books called “Gerichte und ihre Geschichte” (Dishes and their History) that approaches in a historical, literary and humorous way the cuisines of countries regarded as “exotic”(at least from the culinary viewpoint).

Jakub Polanka: “Fashion is the poetry of the 21st century.”

Czech fashion designer Jakub Polanka is the winner of the “Kontakt Fashion Award 2008”. His fashion seems cool, but behind it there is a poetic concept.

Bogomir Doringer: The Valiant Little Tailor

This year, the young Serbian fashion designer Bogomir Doringer was nominated for the Kontakt. Fashion Award by Erste Bank 2008.