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Fall Is Heritage Festival Season
Fall seems to be the season for heritage festivals. Over the past three weekends here in Portland, Oregon, Serbian, Polish, and Greek festivals took place. I had a chance to attend the Polish and Greek...
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Slovak Cooking Delivers Delicious Morsels of Home
Tvarohové rezy by Ľuboš Brieda of SlovakCooking.com If you were to ask Ľuboš Brieda, “What’s cookin’?”, he’d most likely tell you the name of a Slovak dish you’ve never heard of. Which is precisely...
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Cooking Slovak in America: An Interview With Lubos Brieda
Ľuboš Brieda, cooking, smilingFollowing up on my review of SlovakCooking.com, I asked Ľuboš Brieda who runs that site a few questions about his experience as a Slovak transplant. *** American Robotnik:...
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The Soup That Is Christmas
Kapustnica, courtesy of Dobre Jedlo (Good Food) magazine The American Christmas table is different from the Slovak one: no fish, no potato salad, no bobaľky, but, most importantly, no kapustnica. Early...
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From Food Cart to Restaurant for Three Weeks: Tábor Authentic Czech Eatery
Two days remain to experience Czech cuisine at a brick-and-mortar restaurant here in Portland, Oregon. For three weeks until June 24, Karel and Monika from the Tábor Authentic Czech Eatery food cart...
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Packaged Apple Slices Confound, Tittilate
The day after the second presidential debate I started a post discussing Mitt Romney’s now-infamous binders full of women when, halfway through the first paragraph, I discovered in the snacks basket at...
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