Can? Not!
Posted on October 28, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Anchovies have always been one of my favorite snacks. Before I visited the Adriatic coast, you could often find me huddled over a can of salted anchovies in oil, slurping up the lubricious filets like a terrestrial dolphin with thumbs. The ancient method of salt-curing fish is still employed in Dalmatia, and salted whole anchovies [...]
Read More..>>In Sickness And In Health
Posted on October 27, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I’m feeling a little better and celebrated with a bar of Kraš Novo Lješnjak chocolate and a jar of Nutella. Yeah, that’s a milk chocolate bar filled with hazelnut creme, dipped into chocolate hazelnut spread. If you think that’s redundant, you haven’t tried it. With a combination like that in mouth, one kind of forgets [...]
Read More..>>Streets of Nakovana
Posted on October 26, 2006 - Filed Under Places, croatia | Leave a Comment
Nakovana is an ancient village located high on the hill above Viganj on the Pelješac Peninsula. It was mostly abandoned in the early 1970’s, but a few from Nakovana’s most recent generation have returned to restore the village. Nakovana is one of the oldest villages in Croatia, and the immediate area was inhabited by Illyrians [...]
Read More..>>A Brief Recollection of Malvazija
Posted on October 20, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized, croatia | Leave a Comment
The Istrian region of Croatia is enchanting not only for its magnificent landscapes, Roman and Venetian architecture and heavenly cuisine, but also for its wines. To enjoy Istrian wine is to enter another world of oenophilia. My first encounter was at Rolf and Draženka Moll’s Stancija 1904 on a dark, rainy night in Smoljanci back [...]
Read More..>>Trenutak, molim vas
Posted on October 19, 2006 - Filed Under hrvatski | Leave a Comment
Meni ovo je nova metoda za učinje. Jasno moram još više učiti hrvatski, ali teško je to kad svaki dan govorim po engleski u SAD-u. Nemoj ismijavati me, molim! Uglavnom učim sam i sigurno nekad pogriješiti ću. Ako volite promatrati ili pomoći, sjećajte se komentirati samo po hrvatski. Hvala vam lijepa.
Read More..>>Great Neck
Posted on October 19, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Whether grilling, roasting, curing or smoking, Croatians have incredible skills when it comes to preparing meat. I am consistently amazed by what appears to be a near-magical ability to make the flesh of one animal taste like that of another. My friend’s mother makes incredible braised turkey with potato dumplings that tastes like roast pork, [...]
Read More..>>Totally Tubular
Posted on October 18, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I’d be a real jerk for not introducing my friends in America to the exquisitely simple pleasures of Dalmatian cooking, and my recent visit to Brooklyn gave me an opportunity to do just that. I walked with Mike and Karen to the farmer’s market in Prospect Heights where, luckily, there was a decent enough fishmonger’s [...]
Read More..>>Polish Danish
Posted on October 5, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY is teeming with Polish restaurants, meat markets, cafes… and even Polish people! Cafe Riviera (currently my favorite coffee shop on Manhattan Avenue) serves up this dandy of a danish adorned variously with fresh strawberries, blueberries, peaches and others. I think my time in Zagreb gave me a sweet tooth, [...]
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