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Aunt beetroot and uncle borscht

Klemen Košir, 8. 3. 2018

“ These iron curtains of the old wench are pulling beetroots” is a known text phrase of our Slovene punk band Pankrti, which sang it in the beginning ...

P for persimmon

Klemen Košir, 17. 11. 2017

In autumn, when nature turns its visual pallet into all kinds of earthy colors and the wind blows away the leaves on almost every tree, we suddenly lo ...

Šugo

Klemen Košir, 15. 9. 2017

In our family, this is what we call homemade tomato paste. The name is familar to me, because the etymological ear clearly places the sauce in the wor ...

Hot cucumber soup

Klemen Košir, 21. 7. 2017

I have to share this recipe with you, because this soup is absolutely delicious, the preparation and cooking time is really short and it’s easy to mak ...

Repa tropinka

Klemen Košir, 19. 5. 2017

  We all know the Russian story about the giant turnip, which grandma and grandpa were able to put out of the ground only with the help of her ...

Totally wild: Everyday wild garlic and home-grown nettle

Dario Cortese, 5. 5. 2017

Is it widely known that we, as human beings, have forgotten that wild food actually is superfood (“wildings” once ate really “super”). As a matter of ...

Snowdrops and primroses, catkins and violets

Dario Cortese, 24. 3. 2017

The blooming, growing new spring always reminds us of what we didn’t forget, but just didn’t know. That is why you should look around you and let me t ...

People

Klemen Košir, 24. 2. 2017

How and why did I end up surrounded by all this food in my life, I started to think frequently for myself. Cooking, writing about food, workshops abou ...