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Styrian Wine Roads Gourmet guide

Styrian Wine Roads

Even the most avid ski enthusiasts in the Austrian Alps are poorly acquainted with Austrian wines. One reason is purely geographical: ski resorts are concentrated in the western part of the country…

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Plombir, Sorbet, Creamy Gourmet guide

Plombir, Sorbet, Creamy

Ice cream is ice cream, even in Africa. In good weather, it's a self-evident companion. A children's treat. Although it depends. Just a hundred years ago, it was quite difficult to imagine that ice…

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The Best Cuisine Is on Costa Brava Gourmet guide

The Best Cuisine Is on Costa Brava

If you still associate British cuisine with watery coffee and the hackneyed phrase 'Porridge, sir!', it's time to reconsider your point of view. According to Gzt.ru, this year as many as seven…

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What does a meal begin with? Gourmet guide

What does a meal begin with?

With appetizers on your table - with caviar, pies, white salmon, and also, of course, meze... Indeed, no table - especially a festive table - is complete without appetizers. Their role is extremely…

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A Brief Alcohol Guide Gourmet guide

A Brief Alcohol Guide

Count how many times, arriving in a foreign country, you wanted to find a suitable drink. And ordering something familiar, you discovered that the taste was strikingly different from what you drank…

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Bacchus to the rescue! or How to use wine Gourmet guide

Bacchus to the rescue! or How to use wine

Today, with the help of wine, you can heal, create designer masterpieces, and fuel a car. And wine is also drunk... Most wine websites don't say anything about unconventional uses of wine - it is…

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The "Fish" Day of the Peoples of the World Gourmet guide

The "Fish" Day of the Peoples of the World

It would seem that seafood dishes have a known, predictable and familiar taste for everyone. Their pronounced sea aroma is quite recognizable in any cuisine of the world. But there are countries…

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Different Taste of a Common Holiday Gourmet guide

Different Taste of a Common Holiday

Are you also tired of fake "Olivier" salad, red caviar, champagne under the chimes, and "what a disgusting thing your jellied fish is"? How I understand you... Well, fly with me. It won't be boring!

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Two worlds, two ways of life Gourmet guide

Two worlds, two ways of life

Culinary scientists and other food historians claim: Indonesian and Filipino cuisines developed from a single root and should have much in common. Maybe, maybe... But it seems that development took…

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We Distill It Ourselves, We Drink It Ourselves Gourmet guide

We Distill It Ourselves, We Drink It Ourselves

It is amazing what associative chains the word “samogonka” drags behind it. On the one hand, it is a murky slop that sleepy Granny Masha sells to the men at night for a tenner. On the other, it is…

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The Saints of Gluttony Gourmet guide

The Saints of Gluttony

How did restaurant art begin in Europe? Perhaps with Marco Polo's journey to the edge of Asia in 1271, where he discovered many exotic spices and seasonings? Before that, medieval inhabitants of the…

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At Bacchus's Call Gourmet guide

At Bacchus's Call

Wine tasting in a long journey can become an ordinary celebration of "comprehension" in vino veritas, or it can turn into a most interesting excursion. You can appreciate the taste of history - in…

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