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Korean Ambassador Sang-Hoon Park prepared traditional Korean meals kimchi, bulgogi and japchae.
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Korean cuisine: 'Please say kimchi'

SANG-HOON Park faces no dilemmas when deciding which dishes to select for introducing Korean cuisine to Slovaks. “Kimchi is eaten every day, almost with every meal,” the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea explained, while carefully spreading the reddish kimchi seasoning between Chinese cabbage leaves.

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Korean recipes: Bulgogi (barbecued beef)

Ingredients and preparation.

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Henna Kaarina Knuuttila (r) and her friend Anne Kaiser preparing typical Finnish dishes.
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Finnish cuisine: Flavours from the Land of Lakes

IT REQUIRES little insight into Finnish cuisine to guess that people in ‘the land of a thousand lakes’ consume a wide variety of fresh water fish. Yet, Finland could also be dubbed the land of mushrooms and “the sweetest strawberries” as Henna Kaarina Knuuttila called it when explaining that Finland’s “nightless nights” bless the berries with a lot of light, which influences the flavour of the food.

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Indonesian Ambassador Djumantoro Purwokoputro Purbo prepares dishes from his homeland.
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Indonesian cuisine: Cooking it slow and traditional

IN A WORLD dominated by fast food, slow-cooking is more than just a method of preparing food that intensifies the flavours of a dish. In the homeland of Djumantoro Purwokoputro Purbo, the Indonesian ambassador to Slovakia, it is a tradition with deep historical roots. Yet slow-cooking has also provided the culinary world with dishes that are popular outside of Indonesia.

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Three types of grated cheese for the fondue.
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Christian Fotsch: It is necessary to use dry white wine to prepare foundue; otherwise the mixture will not melt together.
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Meal with Swiss spirit

CHRISTIAN Fotsch leaves nothing to chance when cooking fondue, the traditional Swiss dish first described in a booklet published in Zurich in 1699. Three types of grated Swiss cheese are prepared in bowls marked with stylish paper nametags, such as Appenzeller, Gruyére and Emmentaler, and are ready to be poured into a “caquelon”, a special pot for making fondue, along with dry white wine and Kirschwasser, the traditional Swiss cherry liquor.

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Greek cuisine: Trahanas (video included)

Ingredients and preparation.

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Greek Ambassador Nicolaos D. Kanellos and his wife Maria Karakanda Kanellos.
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Greek cuisine: Cooking with love ...

“BRING me some potatoes to plant in Epirus.” This was one of the first diplomatic tasks that Nicolaos D. Kanellos, the Greek ambassador to Slovakia, received from his boss in Greece. So Kanellos did as asked and brought the president of Greece 25 kilos of potatoes from the garden of a woman in Skalica who had been planting potatoes for 15 years.

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