Gastronomad Travelogue

From Nis, a city in the south of Serbia, Lepi Brka brought one true, authentic, homemade Serbian recipe - stuffed lamb or lamb intestine. Otherwise, recipes that Lepi Brka was collecting throughout Serbia, could be used for gastronomic mapping of a country.

There are few cities such as Istanbul. The true metropolis which has a trump card up his sleeve that, as far as I know, no other city in the world.

Until recently Lepi Brka has thought that rustic only means something country-style. However, looking for new recipes, he come across a fantastic Rustico Leccese.

Where exactly baklava comes from no one knows for sure. What is certain is that it exists in almost all countries of the former Ottoman Empire.

Someone once said that in every travel one should expect the unexpected. Well, Lepi Brka received confirmation of this pronouncement in Nis.

The more Lepi Brka has traveled he was coming to the same conclusion - that all people act similarly in the same situations. On the first day of his trip to Cappadocia in Turkey, he was a guest in a family restaurant carved in the rock where he met with a specialty called Comlek or Cappadocis beans.

Karelia is the area that is now partly located in the territory of Finland and the other in Russia. What happened to the Karelian pie?

On the way to the south of Serbia Lepi Brka set out to discover the secrets of the culinary traditions of the region. In Nis has found just such a meal - moussaka of leeks and fried.

Bracelet with figs certainly does not sound like something you can buy at the jewelers. You can buy and try the many Italian pastry shops and bakeries, and not only in Italy but throughout the world.

Cappadocia, an area in eastern Turkey, is known as one of the centers of early Christianity. Culture and traditions have been preserved to this day.

Kuglof or Bunt cake comes from Germany or Austria, but today it's called Gugelhupf. No one knows for sure who has first come up with the idea to make a cake with a hole.

Lepi Brka found visits to South Serbia a small revelation. The atmosphere, the food, the people, the hospitality, all in all when he returned, he realized that this journey will be repeated whenever possible.

Cappadocia, a part of Turkey, has only recently opened for tourists from all over the world. The pioneering spirit is still present so everyone does everything to make tourists feel better than at home.