HeyJaredIrina Janakievska
Cooking and writing about Balkan cuisine The Balkan Kitchen cookbook out 22 August 2024! Macedonian, Kuwait-raised Londoner
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Who Gets to Be Rustic? (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, I spoke to Niki Blasina of the Financial Times for a piece (entitled ‘Eat!’: The Balkan art of feeding people - published on 19 September): about the Balkans, our cuisine, the concept of Balkanism, and the apparent rise of Balkan food. We had a wide-ranging and genuinely interesting conversation: about our own expat experience, our grandmothers, migration, diaspora, tourism, the growing visibility of th
Plum Season (opens the original)
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From Tuscany — with (Balkan) Love (opens the original)
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The Balkan Theory of Summer (opens the original)
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Every culture has its own theory of summer. The older I get, the more convinced I become that Balkan grandmothers understood summer better than the rest of us.Long before anyone had coined the phrase “girl dinner” (I see you, 2023), Balkan grandmothers had perfected it.Not a charcuterie board or a “picky bits” plate assembled from the back of the fridge and balanced precariously on your knees in front of Netflix (though there is nothing wrong with that, obviously!). No one announcing they were “
Peppers of the world - unite! (opens the original)
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Balkan piperki, paprika, speca, piper. Turkish biber. Hungarian paprika. Indian chillies. Chinese “facing heaven” and other Sichuan chillies. Korean gochu. These are all descendants of the same plant — Capsicum annuum — one of the most widely cultivated pepper species around the world.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7DO7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad85b7
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