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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Listen: Bakalar: John J. Goddard podcast 12.25.2007
The Christmas meal in Croatia nearly always includes bakalar, a simple stew of dried cod and potatoes. It's beyond delectable. The Croatian word bakalar is not only the name of the dish, but also of the fish. It's a derivation of bacalao, the Spanish ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Since running Zagrebački Odrezak as a Sunday brunch item a couple of weeks ago, I've had a pow'rful hankering for Wiener schnitzel. I only got around to shopping for the veal last night and, as luck had it, the supermarket had none to offer. So I bought some inexpensive pork ...
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Here I am singing and playing a sean-nós rendition of Eamonn A' Chnuic. I recorded it especially for you today. And here's a transcription of the song. The second English translation is the accurate one. "Ned of the Hill" was Edmund O'Ryan, a roving outlaw of 18th-century Ireland.
Edmond O'Ryan, the ...
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
Norway has agreed to foot the bill for a "doomsday" vault to house seed specimens of food-producing crops. This is good to know. In the event of a cataclysm or major F-up that'd prevent the normal cultivation of food crops for a while, we'd be in trouble without a back-up. ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
It was a tongue-twister of a lunch on a drizzly late-spring afternoon in Remiza, a working-class neighborhood of Zagreb with winding alleys and hidden back roads. Josip and I had originally planned to leave on that day for Kućište with his brother-in-law Anton to begin ...
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Through some miracle of Sweet Providence, I have emerged from the bewildering commotion of Thanksgiving proceedings relatively unscathed. No emotional contusions were suffered, thankfully, although I was attacked variously by a frozen prawn, an industrial dish rack and, at a friendly game of poker with the gents from work, a ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
On certain days there are men who walk the streets of Zagreb bellowing "Krumpira!" at the top of their lungs. They are potato hucksters, and some of them offer onions to boot ("Krumpira! Luka!"). If two of them cross paths in the same territory, the resultant vociferation reminds one of ...
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