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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Recipes for rebellion

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.8162 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Communist Bulgaria was home to a furtive cooking craze on a massive scale: women swapping recipes on scraps of paper, with strangers on trams, even at funerals. The historian and writer Albena Shkodrova sees this fascinating phenomenon as a form of subversion; we called her up to ask why. Also this week: Happy Birthday Schengen, an accidental invasion, and an end to Sweden's longest-running murder mystery.

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Find out more about Albena's forthcoming books, 'Communist Gourmet' and 'Rebellious Cooks': https://www.albenashkodrova.com

Who Killed The Prime Minister? - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/16/olof-palme-sweden-prime-minister-unsolved-murder-new-evidence

On achève bien les gros - ARTE https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/086161-000-A/on-acheve-bien-les-gros

Lianne LaHavas - NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qso4MRfidrw

People of Europe - Susan Neiman https://www.facebook.com/debalie/videos/948520485598650

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0:00.0

So you're back at work, finally. It's about time.

0:18.4

Yeah, I know. It's exhausting. I have to like leave the house and go

0:22.4

into another building and get dressed properly. Get dressed properly. Yeah. It's, has it been?

0:27.1

We only go for an hour because they have to like limit the amount of time we're all singing in a room

0:33.5

together and they have to clean the room out and but it's actually quite nice. What was the ruling on

0:40.1

whether you have to sing wearing masks or not? We are not singing with masks. They have a very,

0:44.8

very complicated protocol and we have like six meters around us. So we're nowhere near anyone else.

0:53.7

Hopefully that's enough. Only time will tell. It's really nice to do, but we're nowhere near anyone else. Hopefully that's enough.

0:55.5

Only time will tell.

0:57.1

It's really nice to do, but also there are lots of challenges ahead

0:59.9

because we're currently singing from the audience seating.

1:03.9

So there would definitely be no space to have any audience in here.

1:07.3

So it's kind of just rehearsing in the hope that at some point we might be able to

1:12.5

perform more normally. Fingers crossed. How's your week been? Good. I've already told you

1:18.6

about this, but I've been foraging in the bushes, listeners, for elder flowers, which I've made

1:24.0

into a delicious flowery drink. It's great. I feel very connected with nature this week.

1:28.5

I've basically turned into some kind of woodland gnome.

1:31.1

Are you sure they were elder flowers and not something poisonous?

1:35.6

I'm not really that good with nature stuff, so I'm not 100% sure, but it smells right, and it tastes really good.

1:41.8

So I'm going to drink it all up.

1:43.4

If I'm not here next week you know

1:45.3

why sorry that's a bit dark it is death by fake elder flower I always thought that elder flower

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