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"Eating is something political"Barbara Maier, cultural and scientific mediator, and publisher and author Lojze Wieser undertook a culinary voyage of discovery in the Balkans. The pair invited Antje Mayer to a meal in their house in Klagenfurt where they served Šopska-Salat, goulash and cooled, Rakia, told about dishes they had tasted and philosophised about the social implications Tragweite of eating drinking and preparing meals. social issues & initiatives | Crossborder | by Antje Mayer | 2008-07
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Eating and drinking connect peopleSusan 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. interdisciplinary | Crossborder | by Barbara Schmied-Länger, Susan Milford | 2008-07
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“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. interdisciplinary | Bratislava | by Sebastian Fasthuber | 2008-07
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QueuingThere 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... social issues & initiatives | Serbia and Montenegro | by Simina Bădică | 2008-07
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“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. social issues & initiatives | Serbia and Montenegro | by Thomas Schmidinger | 2008-07
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