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where violinists compete with violinists… That contest brought 1,800 offered me to play it. I agreed, I said, “Why wait, let’s record it musicians from 70 countries. But I won it. And I received a 600-year- right now!” He looked at me in astonishment, but he agreed. old statuette. When I returned home, everybody was hugging me and There was also this girl in a studio, a very tall, beautiful girl Djivan Gasparyan: crying… I collaborated with the best artists in the world: , Peter with blue eyes. She had to sing, no words, just her voice. So Gabriel, , Boris Grebenshchikov… I’m sitting in one room, and she’s in another. I’m playing and she’s singing. She’s singing so well that I start wondering how “I pawned Stalin’s watch to buy – You won your fame as a young boy… Can you tell us the story she could improvise so promptly. When we finished I saw she about Stalin’s watch? had been crying. She told me, “My mother is Armenian and – It was back in 1947, it was my first performance in Moscow. my father’s American. When the Turks were persecuting us, I remember Stalin well; he was sitting, holding a glass of wine in my family fled to the US. When I was listening to you, I beer and meat puffs” his hand. He liked my recital so much that he gave me his Pobeda remembered the story my grandfather told me…” She was watch. I didn’t save it though, I was young and my friends kept crying and I felt tears swelling in my eyes too… And Hans nagging me, “What’s the use of a watch, Djivan, come one, sell it!” said, “Now, Uncle Djivan, this is an Armenian film.” Djivan Gasparyan is a living legend There were four of us. It was in the years of postwar famine, so I What can I say, life has passed me by like a day. I on the world music scene. He is a pawned the watch to buy four beers and four meat puffs. We had have barely had time to open and shut the door. Like a a blast. minute… People need to learn to be kind, to stop hurting self-taught musician who celebrates one another, to stop being angry… Naked we come into the – How old were you when you first played the ? world and naked we leave it… Armenian culture and the duduk around – I was eight and I’ve been playing ever since. I taught myself the globe. He has played with Boris by listening to older masters play. Later I graduated from the – Why are all your melodies so sad? conservatory, but I first learned to play it on my own. – It must be the Armenian soul, because every 50-80 Grebenshchikov, , Sting… years Armenian people were persecuted, murdered, and – I’ve heard that you haven’t parted with your duduk for robbed. Once used to be a large country, now He is the author of musical scores for forty years. Is this true? it’s very small – no more than three million people. It’s dozens of movies, and his Gladiator – Absolutely! probably less than that now…

theme won him a Grammy Award. – Is it your lucky charm? – Have you tried Ukrainian food on your stay in – Actually, I own many instruments and I cherish each Ukraine? Djivan Gasparyan was born in a small and every one like my own baby, because each instrument – I like the red Ukrainian borsht. It’s famous village outside Yerevan into a poor sounds different. I alone can tell the difference. Look (he around the world. Even when I return to the US, I pulls the instruments out of his bag), I have three . ask for it at home. I like it with sour cream! It’s a very family, but he proved that talent and They are the same pitch, but they sound different. They are good hangover cure in the morning after a party (he made from an apricot tree. It takes time to make them. laughs). perseverance can work miracles. In an The wood needs to dry on its own, and it takes three to four years to exclusive interview to Bulba NEWS, he dry. Then you let it float in water and you drill holes in the lighter part – the – What hard drinks do you like? upper part that surfaces to the top. These are professional instruments, not the – I like good cognac. But if it’s unavailable, I can settle for vodka. But talks about his tours, collaboration with souvenir ones that you can buy for $10-15 a piece. I’ve been playing this duduk everything tastes different these days. Everyone is chasing profit and foregoing for forty years, this one for twenty, and this one fifteen. quality. As long as it sells! But we should be careful about what we eat. Synthetic famous composers, and his sad melodies. could be shoes, sweaters, or pants, but food should be good and natural. You He also recommends Ukrainian borsht as – Why does it have to be the apricot tree? cannot make business on bad food. Unfortunately, only a few people understand – Because other trees can’t sound like that. I’ve tried and tried but all in this – most just want to earn money. Money is evil. It kills. a hangover cure. vain. Perhaps because an apricot fruit has been a symbol of Armenia from time Text: Stepan Hrytsiuk immemorial. But Georgians also claim their rights to it, as do the Turks. Photo: Yuriy Helytovych But if it’s so, where are their musicians? If it is your instrument, there surely have to be musicians!

– We know that you prefer to be called Uncle The stage was roofed, but three thousand seats were – Uncle Djivan, how did you record the music theme for the Gladiator Djivan and people around the world call you that. in the open air. I had to play there, but suddenly it movie? We are grateful for the opportunity to meet you started to rain: one of those downpours that they get – I received an invitation from composer whom I hadn’t since you are on a very tight touring schedule and in Japan. So I’m sitting there, drinking my tea and met before. I went to Hollywood and brought my duduk with me to the About him: very difficult to catch – your duduk plays live in the thinking, “No one will turn up in such weather…” studio. So he says to me, “Djivan, I know your deal very well. I know that US, Europe, Japan… How often do you play at home, Then the director comes and says, “Uncle Djivan, you need a drink before you play…” And I say, “That’s true.” I can normally in the former Soviet Union, in countries like Russia, we are starting in 20 minutes!” So I ask, “Hasn’t the have a shot or two. So Hans says, “I have a surprise for you,” and “I have always dreamt of composing Ukraine, or Belarus? concert been cancelled?” He says, “It has been sold I guessed it must be a bottle of good cognac. We music for Djivan Gasparyan. I think he’s – I do my best to be able to perform here. During out!” Then I enter the stage and see a whole throng stepped into a room and, indeed, there was one of the most brilliant artists in the world. the Soviet time, it happened much more often of people with umbrellas. They stood there under Armenian brandy and fruits He produces a one-of-a-kind sound which because we had to accomplish a plan. I remember we umbrellas for two hours and listened to me play! waiting for us. The lingers in your memory.” were obliged to give two or three hundred concerts This is an incredible story. It still gives me shivers. composer started every year. We toured all the Soviet republics. But many people don’t even know my name. That’s telling me he Hans Zimmer, Today, naturally, I can go wherever I want to. I mostly in Russia, I’m sort of a celebrity in Europe was writing composer for Gladiator. have a manager who makes the arrangements for and the US… music for me to perform. In the last decade I toured Russia, Gladiator Ukraine, and Belarus quite extensively. It brings – It would seem fame didn’t come easily to you? and “Gasparyan turns all his performances back memories because in the past, under the Soviet into captivating, melancholic, passionate, Union, we used to be one family. Now each country – That’s right; I have played twenty thousand nostalgic and reverential dramas.” has its own character and ambitions. There are lots concerts. I have more than two thousand records of political undercurrents, I don’t want to go into all in different countries. I’ve composed music for over John Pareles, that… forty films: Italian, German, Russian, American. I The New York Times was even invited to Turkey to play in a movie. Eighty – Where do you perform most of all? You do percent of Armenian films that feature the duduk is travel around the world… my performance. I have won four UNESCO medals, “Emotional engagement with this music –That would be Japan, Germany, Italy, France. a Grammy, and the WOMEX Award, which, by the is so strong that the slightest ambient noise I live in the US because I own a house there. It’s way, has no second or third prize, there is only one appears to be a profane desecration of the where my children live. I have dual citizenship: US winner… confidential relationship between the and Armenian; I can live wherever I want (smiles). I audience and the artist.” like people and don’t discriminate and they love me – What kind of award is it? back. I am welcome everywhere, not just in Armenia. The Los Angeles Weekly I have a story for you, however unbelievable you may – It is believed to be the most prestigious award find it. I once had three concerts scheduled in Japan: in the music world. The trick is that all musician two in an indoor concert hall and one in a garden. compete together, they are not divided into categories 4 | Personality Personality | 5

a rosary with one hand and types text messages on her cell phone with the other. She’s full of humor and wisdom; she’s very modern in some respects. Seventy-five percent (I just adore statistics) of this character was based on Janusz Leon Wiśniewski: my own grandmother; her words, her proverbs, her mottos strike you and make you cry simultaneously. I wouldn’t be Janusz Wiśniewski if I didn’t introduce a bit of science into the book: I have dedicated my life to science. I only write books during long nights at home. I am lazy enough to say that “I will never sink to pornography” the world of science is the only world I know well. One of the brothers from my novel is a scientist who works in Washington, Warsaw, Gdansk. He studies molecules of emotions in the brain. It is a very interesting and This Polish writer is known to any booklover. He served as a topical novel. It’s also a Polish-Ukrainian novel because it reflects a Slavic sailor on a fishing fleet, then graduated from university, then way of thinking. received two doctoral degrees – in IT and chemistry. He works On Facebook with the Son in microbiology and likes to think of himself as a scientist rather That’s a very interesting book and I’m often asked about it because it is so controversial. There was so much indignation about it in Poland. I than a writer. And yet his first novel, Loneliness on the indicated my mother as a co-author, even though she died in 1979 and could not possibly have co-authored it. But she lives on in my mind, in my heart, Net, became a European bestseller and the film based in my thoughts. So if she hadn’t been one of the authors, the novel would on the book was a box office hit in Poland, which left all not have come to be. It’s a surreal story in which I place my mother in hell and talk to her. I am a physicist who believes in God, but I defy the model Hollywood productions far behind. The writer has been to consisting of heaven, hell, and purgatory. That’s why I am a little distant in talking about hell. I put my mother there because I’m convinced it would Ukraine and Russia several times. When asked how he succeeds be a nice place to meet interesting people. Or rather the souls of interesting in so finely depicting female psychology, Janusz Wiśniewski people. She asks them questions I would like to ask them. My mother was born on the 20th of April in Berlin, she was German. replies, “I have always preferred listening to women, they are Her third husband, my father, was a Pole who had spent several years in a German concentration camp. This is already quite surreal family history. far more interesting storytellers than men…” The journalists Besides, my mother was born on the 20th of April, the same day as Hitler. from Bulba NEWS met the writer during his visit to Ukraine and The book opens with the celebration of the Fuhrer’s birthday in hell, because there is no bigger celebrity and bigger sinner than Hitler. Then my mother talked to him about women’s hearts. meets other people. She meets Yesenin who had six wives and married the last one without divorcing his previous wife. Mother asks him if he hanged himself in the hotel in Petersburg or did someone make him do it. She meets Marilyn Monroe and asks her about her sexual life with Kennedy. Since she is in hell, she is interested in its counterpart – heaven, and so asks God On his occupation numerous questions. She asks him why he keeps silent, about his view on I am not a writer by training, I have not studied humanities. I hold paedophilia and his priests on earth. It is a very anti-clerical book and I a master’s degree in physics, a PhD in chemistry and a habilitation in don’t recommend it to anyone. But the novel has a lot of earthly things in information technology. it, because when my mom gets bored she listens to the confessions here on earth. She knows all about people’s sins. CNN, Facebook, and Wikipedia are On the kinship between Ukrainians and Poles also in hell. So, in fact, this is a book about earth, not hell, and that there’s I appreciate all my readers who spend their time on my books because not much difference between the two. I realize that I will never be able to repay them. I am not surprised by the popularity of my books in your country because the souls of Ukrainians TEXT: Stepan Hrytsiuk and Poles have so much in common. We both are melancholic and we both drink lots of vodka. Well, maybe you drink a bit more. We know how to stir a revolution, but then we have no idea what to do with it. We love each other with all our hearts and we like telling people about that love. Our poetry is similar – romantic and exalted. For me, writing for the Poles and writing for the Ukrainians is practically the same thing. If my books Quotes: THE BEST UKRAINIAN CUISINE OF KIEV are successful in Poland, they are very likely to be read with enthusiasm in Ukraine. in a viewfinder. But he made a bad adaptation of my book. People wanted He resembles a rose. A rose that Welcome to Korchma in Kiev! to come to theatres and cry, instead they were falling asleep. If you ask me always has thorns. We mourn the On sexual relationships whether I like that film, my answer would be a certain “no!” But he can sad fact that roses have thorns or we I wouldn’t say that I emphasize sexual relationships too much, even be justified, he was adapting a bestselling book, which is always difficult. could just as well celebrate the fact though I think they are a very important aspect of communication. People Four million readers had their own vision of the film, but very few were that its thorny stems bear beautiful who love each other have to touch each other, don’t they? I know something involved in the filmmaking. But the book still can be adapted brilliantly, flowers. That’s important. That’s most A free tour of Kiev about chemistry, and I know there’s a special chemistry between a man and I saw it done… The Russians did it. Since 2009, a St. Petersburg theater important. People don’t expect roses for and a woman, or between two women, or two men. I am quite liberal with has staged a piece called Loneliness on the Net. I thought it would run their thorns… after lunch in gender in my books. I think my plots would lose much of their momentum if for some three to four month, but four years later the play still enjoys full Korchma! I didn’t introduce sexual relationships. But maybe I’m writing about it from attendance. A curious fact is that the staging was done by another Pole – It is not the most important thing a different perspective. Maybe I’m looking at it as a brain or physiological Henryk Baranowski. in the world to go to bed with someone, activity. But overall I hardly dedicate more space to this topic than other it is much more important to wake up writers. And I surely don’t do this for the sake of sales, for the sake of a together and make each other a cup of On his book The Repeated Fate tea. bigger audience. For example, I didn’t even intend to publish my Loneliness I have another book published in Ukrainian. It is called The Repeated on the Net. But I am quite adamant about one thing: I will never sink to Fate. It was my second novel, which came out right after Loneliness. I know Men are so vain that they expect to pornography. it well enough – no matter what I write now, I won’t be able to repeat the meet only beautiful women even on the success of Loneliness, my bestseller. It left a metaphorical tattoo on my Internet. On the filming of Loneliness on the Net body. With every new book I’m trying to remove it, but it keeps resurfacing every time. This text is an even more beautiful love story. Yet it will always I find it hard talking about the film because I am friends with Witold Crying is best when no one can be eclipsed by the Loneliness love. The Repeated Fate is a very Polish book; Adamek who produced it. He didn’t give his email in the closing titles after interrupt you. It brings you consolation. the premiere, and so all the criticism came to my address. The viewers now it takes place in a small village at the bottom of the Tatry. It’s a story of five brothers scattered around the world. The protagonist is one of the brothers think that I am to blame for all the bad things in the film. But Witold Men are weird creatures. They are who is still living in the mountains. This is a story of human fate, of our Adamek produced the film; he was in charge of casting. He chose the afraid of the dentist’s, of going bald, failure to resist destiny. A story of self-dedication to someone else and of the Kiev, Pushkinskaya Street 2-4/7 music score, which I find very beautiful, it was written by a Scandinavian or their phone being out of reach. right to one’s own happiness. The novel is a bit philosophical thanks to its composer. Witold Adamek was a Stalin for this film, and there was no one Yet they are least afraid of the state Phone: +38 (044) 270-7248, +38 (093) 342-3868 female character. If you ask me which female protagonist is my love, it would brave enough to tell him he was doing something wrong. It’s a brilliant of degradation that can lead to their be the woman from this particular novel. She’s an older lady, who prays on movie because Adamek is the best cameraman in Poland. He saw his world irreversible extinction. 6 | Calendar Calendar | 7

November 6 November 1 Folk Calendar Birthday of ‘Korchma’ on Profsoyuznaya Street The Theotokos Doktorskaya November 2 for November of Sorrows Men’s Day On this day, the Orthodox Christians celebrate the day of the miracle- Sausage or November 3 The folk name for November is “leavesmuck.” It is the last month in autumn. This is working icon of Theotokos that is called Day of Ukrainian Engineer Corps the time of leafless trees, cold winds, and early dusk. In November peasants used to “Consolation of All Sorrows.” It depicts Our Lady surrounded with people GOST 23670-79 November 4 sell the products of their harvest at markets and fairs. They were especially generous possessed by infirmities and sorrows, Day of Railway Workers of Ukraine together with angels performing their on the day of the great martyr Saint Paraskeva, also called Pyatnytsia. Fairs were not Everyone November 5 good deeds. born in the Day of Military Intelligence of Russia In Rus’, this day started gatherings of girls only market places but also sites of entertainment. They featured bear-leaders with that lasted throughout the winter. When USSR must November 7 trained bears, organ-grinders, and street performers. they got together, the girls did some remember Day of Military Glory of Russia (anniversary of the military parade handicrafts and entertained themselves well one on Red Square, Moscow, in 1941) with singing or talking. They worked by of the SALAD OF EGGPLANTS AND TOMATOES the light of a torch; therefore, the very day most popular November 9 Folk sayings in November 200 gr. – 260 rub. was often called the “Lighter.” “Russian products of that time Guinness World Records Day lighter is a girls’ delight,” people said. Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language – the Doktorskaya Sausage, In November, the first lasting snow falls overnight. which wasn’t easy to come by. And November 10 every one of us must have wondered If on the day of Theotokos of Kazan (November 4) the sky is crying, the rain shall bring International Youth Day November 7 about the origin of this strange name. In World Science Day winter behind. Police Day Grandfathers’ today’s column GOST, we will try to cross International Accountants Day If November 4 is rainy, winter will come soon. all the t’s and dot all the i’s. Snow or hail on November 5 means that after Matrona’s Day the winter will persevere. Weepings On this November day, nature The story began back in 1936. Those If November is sunny and the weather is dry, the next year’s harvest will be at risk. weeps – either with rain or were scanty times when the huge country was struggling through famine. Sunny clear weather in November is a sign the temperature will start to drop. snow. People started to weep all along. They initiated the Meat was in short supply. Rumor has it Thaw on November 8 means a warm winter and spring. ritual of lamentation, called that in such conditions the government, Snow on Dmytriy’s Day means a late spring. Grandfather’s Weepings, when in fact Joseph Stalin himself, ordered the 10 they commemorated their development of a cheap and high-calorie November A November day may start in rain but may well end in snowdrifts. departed relatives and friends. Mosquitoes in November are a sign of a mild winter. Everyone was obliged to go to product. The honor to undertake such the cemetery, tidy the graves, a challenging task fell upon the Anastas Mass appearance of tomtits near houses on November 12 is a true sign of the cold’s and light a church candle. Mikoyan Moscow Meat-Processing coming. Besides, there was a custom on Plant. Their nutritionists developed the this day to help orphans and sausage composed of prime beef, pork, unfortunates who had a tough eggs, dried milk, and high quality spices. life. STEWED RABBIT MEAT Everything was produced on the highest WITH VEGETABLES level and was in compliance with the AND CREAM 310 gr. – 590 rub. state quality standards. Primarily, the Doktorskaya Sausage was intended for “sick people who Police Day undermined their health as a result of November 17 the Civil War and tsarist tyranny.” The combination of ingredients was thought November 12 Stay in on out to the smallest detail. Security Professional Day Yarema’s Day Thus, 100 kilograms of the sausage contains: 25 kilograms of prime beef November 13 Our ancestors believed that on this International Day of the Blind day people should stay home, avoid 70 kilograms of semi-fat pork going out to the yard, and beyond 3 kilograms of eggs November 14 the fence all the more. The violation 2 kilograms of cow’s milk World Quality Day of this rule was fraught with the Naturally, back then no one resorted Russian Sociologist Day danger of meeting evil spirits and getting yourself in trouble. “The to flavoring agents or other harmful November 16 outskirts are haunted on this day,” additives; only starch and cardamom Day of Radio, TV and Communication Workers of Ukraine people said. The weather was in in minimum amounts were added. line with the general feeling, “It is Producers also avoided piquant spices. November 17 whirling and stirring up beyond the Besides, the sausage contained minimum Day of Russian District Police Officer threshold.” International Students’ Day amounts of salt and fat. In other words, Source: www.calend.ru it was a high-quality dietary product. November 19 It was good for people suffering from Day of Hydrometeorological Service Workers of Ukraine pea soup with smoked meat and croutons liver and stomach conditions. Moreover, 250 gr. – 220 rub. November 20 Doktorskaya was “prescribed” for World Children’s Day people with anemia and fragile health November 21 November 4 exacerbated by previous diseases and World Hello Day injuries. In a word, the doctor’s orders. Day of Tax Officials of Russia The day of Theotokos of Kazan In the course of time, the ingredients International No Smoking Day On this day, Christians worship the miracle-working icon of Theotokos of Kazan, which is one of the most revered icons in the Russian started to change. More starch, flour, and Orthodox Church. According to a legend, after the fire in 1579 destroyed half of the city of Kazan, the Theotokos appeared in a dream November 24 to 9-year-old Matrona and commanded to dig her icon from under the ashes. The girl obeyed, and on the spot where the icon was even soy substituted meat. Nowadays, Mother’s Day in Russia discovered, a nunnery of the Theotokos was later built. Its first nun was the very Matrona. CAKE “POPPY” hardly any nutritionist would prescribe Weddings are timed to the feast of Kazan icon. “Who gets married on the day of Theotokos of Kazan will find happiness,” people believe. 175 gr. – 210 rub. the “Doctor’s sausage” for medical November 28 treatment. Birthday of ‘Korchma’ on Mokhovaya Street 8 | Travelling Travelling | 9

Healthy diet – freeze, surprised by the unconventional combination of meat and the irregular one, two, three berry (how the melon is called by the experts of the plant-fruit-vegetable My Italian is a great believer in a world). It is unusual. At first I’m not healthy diet. I am too. Our concepts of sure whether I like it or not. I guess I a healthy diet, however, are different. do. His cautionary attacks do not change Almost painlessly pies were my mind about seafood. I consider replaced with pasta, pilaf with risotto. it very healthy. I can’t resist all the Cooking of the latter was added the grilled shrimp, mussels in shells cooked list of my culinary hobbies. I was in a wine garlic sauce, octopus, and pleasantly surprised to have discovered other marine delicacies . Seafood, the unusual taste of pasta with beans referred to by the Italians as frutti di dressed with hot sauce. Pizzoccheri, mare, joined the list of my favorite however… I still don’t enjoy it. But I fruit delicacies. In this case – of the wrote about this in my “Mia Italia.” sea. Pizza with seafood, spaghetti with seafood, risotto with seafood – my soul and stomach danced together in What is pizzoccheri celebration. I ate – and I couldn’t eat and little about pasta my fill. The burning fire of my passion for sea fruits was transformed into a An anecdote about the topic hearth of calm delight after Marcello’s “Why are Italians both fat and thin, lecture on “How to Eat and Do No even though they eat the same noodles? Harm.” It turns out that the marine - Because the thin ones eat them minnow is inherently devoid of such an crosswise and the fat ones lengthwise...” important organ as a liver, so it absorbs “Do not cook lunch today, I bought all kinds of muck from the bottom of something,” my beloved Italian the ocean and deposits it in different husband calls me two hours before parts of its spineless bodies. And we lunch time. Italian Cuisine: Fish Diamonds, consume all those waste products. For lunch Marcello comes with a First, while cooking seafood at home, plastic bag-present from his cousin I taught myself to search for the black who owns a store with ready-to-eat Frutti di Mare, and Melon with Prosciutto traces of dirt in the shrimp and mussels meals. My husband pours out the and clean it from that “evil.” But even contents of the bag onto a plate and the time spent for this process was not Two years ago, when I first set foot on I quote an excerpt from Manuela Gretkowska’s whole on the tray. The vivacious Italian waiter places it in the microwave for a minute. enough to tame my abnormal seafood wisdom. “Everything that goes into it after this starts to skillfully debone it. He places a huge This was a blend of “something” with Italian soil, local dishes induced a stressful appetite. Only later, after eating at a time is deposited on the body in the form of fat fish eye on the first plate. I hoped that this plate grey finger-like noodles. As I ate the flavorful explosion in my consciousness, Chinese pizzeria where I was served rolls.” was not for me. But it was fate. The waiter gives dish, I could taste potato, cabbage, and stomach, and established lifestyle. pizza with uncleaned seafood, which But there were some evenings when I turned a it to me. Before hiding the eye under a pressed melted cheese. deprived me of my pleasure of its blind eye to my own principles – like this one. lemon (in order to have it not spoil my appetite), “What’s this weird dish?” I ask. consumption, did I start eating frutti “At 7 p.m. the stomach I politely ask my Italian friend whether I must eat I don’t quite like the taste: di mare at a frequency that would not it. Well, I need to know whether this Ukrainians would never blend noodles washes the dishes” harm my body – once a week. Italian Fish Diamond is a Mediterranean delicacy with potatoes! cooks, of course, are not Chinese, “Pizzoccheri – pasta of buckwheat I tried to defend myself from croissants and that I have to savor. and they approach their dishes with and wheat flour,” he answers. “You don’t pastries with sandwiches. Moreover, I tried to get At the beginning he put She answers that responsibility and skillfulness. Though, like the taste?” he sees my grimace. my darling husband to do the same. The breakfast on a fish show for us. The she never eats I’d better not overuse it. “Sort of...” battle, which at first I used to win, I lost in no waiter quickly changed it. I won’t eat I have tried pizzoccheri and decided time: on the first Sunday when we went to have one fish with another on it either: a that the taste probably takes time to breakfast in a caf . Sunday breakfasts in a caf the tray, saying funny fish’s eye is Gustative surprises é é enjoy – similarly to the taste of olives. became a family tradition, while the daily morning comments about their probably to Many years ago, when I first tried sandwiches were replaced with baked goods. I peculiarities. I wanted decorate my The Italians are true masters of black olives, I nearly got sick. I was a took a fancy to sweet-smelling croissants with to savor a flat flounder, plate like an combining the uncombinable, and guest in someone’s home, sitting in the crispy crusts, pastry cream, apricot and raspberry but Marcello and our accessory? surprisingly, with their new dishes as middle of the couch, and on either side marmalade, and pastries with apple slices. Italian friends Claudio Like a well. For two consecutive years now of me were other guests. I had an olive It was easy for me to make adjustments to my and Stefani preferred a precious gem? in the summer heat I gladly eat melon in my mouth, and I didn’t know what breakfast, but I still haven’t come to terms with huge fat, unknown to me, Like a diamond? with prosciutto. And I never forget the to do with it. Finally, unnoticed for the late Italian suppers. fish – one for all four of us. So, I safely hide this time that I first tried it. others I spit it out into a napkin. It took “What’s with the stoking of the stomach “I guess, that’s enough. I’m diamond not only from We were having lunch. Marcello me a long time before I started to enjoy two-three hours before midnight?” I never taking the rest away,” the waiter makes strangers’ eyes, but from mine slices a melon, wraps the slice with the taste of olives. And the time for me fail to rebel, expressing my disapproval to my a joke, having placed patata fritte (french fries) as well. The only thing I know is that the pink transparent prosciutto, and to enjoy pizzoccheri has not come yet. husband. “Don’t you know that at 7 p.m. the and a carciofi (artichoke) salad on our plates. The it is somewhere under the remainders of the lemon bites it with delight. I do the same. Text and Photo: Olesia Olendiy stomach washes the dishes, and then goes to bed?!” big fish – the main regale of our dinner – is left pulp with the crust… For me this is an experiment of taste. I

Ukraine in numbers The island of Ukraine is The map found The longest A 1,300-year- Khortytsia is the the biggest in the village of spit in Europe old tree in the biggest river country Mezhyrichia, Rivne is the Arabat Yuzefin hole, island in Europe. situated Oblast, dates back Spit in the Sea Rivne Oblast, is It is up to 12.5 entirely in more than 15,000 of Azov. Its considered to be kilometers long Europe. It years. It was carved length is 115 the oldest tree in and on average occupies 0.41 onto a mammoth’s kilometers. Ukraine. 2.5 kilometers percent of the bone. This is the wide. The island’s world’s land oldest map ever total area is area. known to scientists. almost 3,000 hectares. 10 | news from “Korchma” news from “Korchma” | 11

Beauty, Smile, Dance www.tarasbulba.ru [email protected] Girls from “Korchma “Taras Bulba” competed for the title of the best ountless songs and legends praise the beauty of Ukrainian girls. Nowhere Cin the world would you find such pretty girls as in Ukraine. The staff of “Korchma “Taras Bulba” chain of Ukrainian cuisine restaurants decided to prove this fact once again. They organized a beauty pageant of a slightly unusual format. To gain a prize-winning place, in addition to walking before the judges in national costumes, the girls needed to demonstrate a charming smile, good posture and high spirits. They also showed how graciously they could dance! A particular attention was paid to the originality and aesthetic design of a flower chaplet composition that traditionally adorned a girl’s Winners in the ‘Smile. Posture. mineralization 1-2 g/l chemical composition of water mg/l head. It wasn’t only an adornment, Sodium+potassium (Na+ K+) 4.5 but also a talisman that protected her Mood’ nomination: Chlorides (Cl) 3.5 1 – Vira Stoich (restaurant at Petrovka Str.) Sulphates 4.6 beauty from the evil spirits. Hydrogen carbonates 95 The contestants could have 2 – Yulya Kuzmych (restaurant at Bochkova Str.) Calcium 77.2 excited jealousy of world-known 3 – Vita Churikova (restaurant at Velozavodska Str.) Magnesium 20.67 top models! Embroidered shirts, and Kateryna Karnaushenko (restaurant at Borovske Highway) poppies and chamomiles in their hair, necklaces and bright sashes were beyond competition. It was as if the Winners in the dance energy and symbolism of Ukrainian nomination: national clothing inspired the girls 1 – Restaurant Nametkino to win. They smiled sincerely, danced 2 – Restaurant at Profsoyuzna St. and joked. 3– Restaurant at Bochkova St. 12 | news from “Korchma” the great cooks | 13

Georges Auguste Escoffier: King of French Cuisine

opened his own restaurant in Cannes and called it The Gold Pheasant. Most probably the newly Recipe made businessman was doing not very well, since after Cannes he moved to Monte Carlo and started to work at The Grande Hotel. It was there where Peach Melba he met Cesar Ritz, the future king of a restaurant business. One of them had great talent, the other a You’ll need a cup of sugar, zest of one lemon, grip on money and a business. They soon became a teaspoon of vanilla extract, and three ripe partners and founded a chain of well-known hotels peaches. For the sauce you’ll need 450 grams of with branches all over the world. At that time raspberry, lemon juice, and caster sugar. And of Escoffier moved to London. Funny, but he had such course don’t forget about ice cream – it’s better a low opinion of the local cuisine that he even didn’t to take a vanilla sort. care for learning English and translating the menu Place a liter of water, sugar, and thickly into it. By all means he popularized his favorite grated zest in a saucepan. Bring the syrup to a French! boil, stirring at a steady pace to help the sugar In England, the chef created several dissolve. Halve the peaches and remove the THE NEW YEAR masterpieces. For example, the dessert Peach Melba pits. Place the fruit in the syrup, add the vanilla named in honor of the Australian singer Nellie extract. Let them simmer for five minutes, then A ship will sail the way you name it, you’ll spend a new year the way you celebrate it. These truths were Melba (ice cream served in a half of a peach topped remove the sauce pan from the heat and allow with raspberry sauce). After a while it became even the fruit to chill in the syrup. Later take the established long ago. The chain of Ukrainian cuisine restaurants ‘Korchma ’Taras Bulba’ invites you to more popular than the very actress! A great success peaches out, peel them, and place them on a here’s hardly another person who was the dish with strawberry and sherbet, called in plate with a pit upwards. did more for the development and celebrate the next 2014 year of the Horse in a welcome and pleasant company. honor of the French actress Sara Bernhardt. The Mix the raspberry, lemon juice, and sugar modernization of French cuisine other one was Meringue, always served with vanilla in a blender, pass through a sieve, and discard You can book an individual table or a separate hall. You can celebrate the winter holidays with your friends, than Auguste Escoffier. The culinary T cream and candied white roses with purple petals. seeds. If desired, you can pour 2 tablespoons of expert became “the king of chefs and the chef of Moreover, Auguste Escoffier was the first to raspberry liqueur. Stuff each half of the peach workfellows or relatives. kings.” Among his clients were heads of states, create and introduce the à la carte menu that allowed with ice cream and pour the raspberry sauce such as Edward VII, Wilhelm II, and many A wide choice of delicious homemade dishes prepared of ecologically pure products, Ukrainian hospitality dishes to be chosen from a list. He also introduced over them. popular cultural figures. Most foodies have the service à la russe, in which food and drinks were and a high quality service will make your New Year holidays really unforgettable. not the slightest idea that traditional elements served in courses, not simultaneously, as before. of restaurant life and classical recipes are his Then the chef ran kitchens at passenger airlines of Visit us and you won’t regret about your choice! inventions. He changed the restaurant life and the German company Hamburg-Amerika Lines. He skilfully maintained the interest in food. Read To make a reservation, please call: (212) 510-75-10 met the German Emperor Wilhelm II, for whom he more about the interesting life of the great chef in cooked a lavish dinner. Just after this the Kaiser the Bulba NEWS magazine. said, “I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs!” Georges Auguste Escoffier was born on October Even financial success and fame didn’t lull the 28, 1846, in a small village outside Nice. As a young culinary genius of the chef innovator. Together boy, he showed good aptitude for art, but largely with his colleagues from the Gourmand League THE VERTEP because of his father, the boy did not become an he established the tradition, which suggested that artist. When Georges turned thirteen, his father sent people from different cities of the world on the same him to his brother, who owned a small restaurant. day tasted the same menu, made by Escoffier. In the Devil, Herod, Death, Angel and Young It was there, among pots and pans, that he started first such “plot” participated four thousand people to learn the ropes of his future profession that later and in the last one more than ten thousand in 147 Shepherd… Every year in the beginning of the would make his name world famous. cities. For several reasons, however, the young man winter these characters return to announce Georges Auguste Escoffier also published a didn’t stay long at his uncle’s restaurant. First, his recipe book where he included about five thousand the Messiah’s birth. The ‘Korchma ’Taras Bulba’ culinary talent grew by leaps and bounds. Second, of his own recipes. By the way, it is popular nowadays before long he became unhappy with his salary. and is translated into dozens of languages. This restaurant chain traditionally organizes the The future genius was convinced that he deserved publication is considered to be the best guide to better. That’s why he didn’t want to work there. classic cookery in the world! Ukrainian Vertep. He packed up his things and in 1865 found a job at The following facts testify the chef’s fame: the the fashionable restaurant Le Petit Moulin Rouge More information will follow. school at the Ritz Hotel in Paris was named after in Paris. He worked there until the outbreak of him and a museum was opened in the house where the Franco-Prussian war. Escoffier enlisted as an he was born. army chef, and when he returned from the war, he Text: Maria Krasna

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