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KOLEDNI ZAGOVEZNI (Christmas Shrove before Christmas Lent)
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KOLEDNI ZAGOVEZNI (Christmas Shrove before Christmas Lent)
11/15/2023 8:00:00 AM
After the Great All Souls’ Day and Michaelmas, there comes Christmas Shrove - the last day you can eat meat before Christmas. This is the name of the day before Christmas Fast begins. The most popular dishes at the Shrove table are: hen with sauerkraut, stuffed peppers with beans and much oil. Women make a wound banitsa pastry called “tikvenik” – it is filled with groung pumpkin with sugar and lots of walnuts. After dinner, the woman of the house washes the big wooden spoon used for cooking and serving meat dishes and hides it away for “it is not needed until Christams anymore”. It will not be touched for 45 days, till Christmas, when you “break fast".
For “breaking fast” people start preparing since St. Nicholas’ Day. The man of the house catches several sparrows, the woman puts them in hot water, takes off the feathers and rubs salt on. Then she puts them on a string of hemp and hangs it in a cold place under the roof to dry. For Christmas the sparrows become so dry like dried mackerel. On coming back from church, the mistress of the house breaks the string and gives a piece of the dried birds to all members of the family. She gives the birds’ wings to the girls and the drumsticks to the boys, after which kids can sit at the table and eat of all the meat dishes.
Unforgettable Emil Chakarov
6/27/2003 12:00:00 AM
He was Conductor of the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra.The conductor must set his mark on the orchestra. This is what Maestro Emil Chakarov used to say. On June 29 he would have had his 56th bi...
KCM-Plovdiv-a public firmed family holiday-28th of June, 2003
6/26/2003 12:00:00 AM
The Non-ferrous Metals Smelter (KCM SA) is situated on the 900 decare site between Plovdiv and Assenovgrad. KCM-40 years of development and the position of the biggest producer of non-ferrous metal...
The Plovdiv Verdi Festival 2003
6/25/2003 12:00:00 AM
International prestige is credited to a number of Bulgarian music festivals, not the least of which is the Plovdiv Verdi Festival. It has become a favorite summertime tradition. The Verdi Festival ...
23-26 June ? Visit of General Jeremy McKenzie
6/24/2003 12:00:00 AM
General Sir Jeremy McKenzie, consultant to Bulgaria's Defence Ministry and General Staff on armed forces reform and on Bulgaria's accession to NATO, is to pay an official visit to Bulgaria June 23-26....
100 Levs For a Weekend in the Bulgarian mountain resort
6/23/2003 12:00:00 AM
The tourist's flow in Bansko does not run dry in summer. In private lodgings an accommodation costs from 6 to 8 levs, a double-bed room in two-crown family hotels costs 25 to 30 levs, in three-crown h...
GERMAN COMPANIES MOVE PRODUCTION CENTRES TO BULGARIA
6/20/2003 12:00:00 AM
German companies are going to finance Bulgarian students who study in Bavarian technical universities, but are not going to employ them in Germany after their graduation. The companies intend to mo...
World Freshwater Angling Club Championships wiil be in Plovdiv
6/13/2003 12:00:00 AM
13.06.2003, Friday, Plovdiv-angling\r\nAnglers of 29 countries prepare for the start of the World Freshwater Angling Club Championships in Plovdiv's Rowing Canal....
"ORISIYA" ? the new ballet show of Neshka Robeva
6/12/2003 12:00:00 AM
The presenting of Neshka Robeva's new ballet show, Orisiya (Destiny), will take place today at the Antique Theatre in Plovdiv. For 25 years, Robeva coached Bulgaria's nat...
Art Fair IMPRESIA - Plovdiv
6/9/2003 12:00:00 AM
(09.06.2003 - 15.06.2003) The IMPRESIA Art Fair was established in 1997 with the idea of ensuring a broad forum for the exchange of cultural values. The organiserers aim at promoting ...
Let us never forget that, we should protect the Environment...
6/5/2003 12:00:00 AM
The World Environment Day, June 5th, has been celebrated since 1973 in accordance with the resolution taken at the UN Conference on Environmental Problems, held in Stockholm, Sweden.A Declaration f...
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