Let A Taste of Europe take you on a a taste delicious trip overseas. of europe of europe Make any of these 56 recipes from 32 The cover photo illustrates how our favorite recipes can be passed countries to savor the flavor of Europe. down through generations. On Collected from friends of the Center CE small scraps of paper we have at L E for European Studies at the University BRA hand—even envelopes—recipes T ING FIV ING are dictated over the phone, of Florida, these recipes will help to a taste of europe scribbled in a best friend’s kitchen, E introduce you to the tastes, cultures, Y or hand-copied from a relative’s E ARS ARS tattered recipe file. Cooking is and languages of Europe. O F F an important part of all societies T celebrating five years of the H E and recipes provide us insight C E N into the traditions and history TE Center for European Studies R F R of a country. We hope that the O R EUR R recipes in this book will serve as an introduction to the wide variety of O P E cultures and languages of Europe AN AN ST by demonstrating both their Center for European Studies UDI similarities and their differences. Box 117342 E Gainesville FL 32611-7342 S (352) 392-8902 www.ces.ufl.edu a taste of europe celebrating five years of the Center for European Studies For information about A Taste of Europe contact the Center for European Studies University of Florida Box 117342 Gainesville FL 32611-7342 (352) 392-8902 Acknowledgements It is nearly impossible to assess how Some faculty and staff were so Special thanks to our support many hands, hearts, and brains helped enthused about the project that they team: Pat Bartlett, Alex Burak, Tom to bring this cookbook to fruition. It roped others into giving a recipe or Kostopoulos, Felissa Scott, and Ewa was our first project of this scope and helped to authenticate recipes. Thanks Wampuszyc. magnitude. The Director of the Center to: J. Robert Buchler, Yvette McKinney, We are most grateful to our 50 for European Studies, Dr. Amie Kreppel, Holly Raynard, Ronald H. Schmidt, contributors who shared family recipes introduced the initial concept. CES Zachary Selden, and Maria Skirk. and cultural information in addition to Outreach Coordinator, Gail Keeler One of the reasons this book is translating and converting their own organized and edited the project so visually appealing is due to the recipes. with substantial assistance from fortitude and creative thinking of Financial support for the production Brano Kovalcik (Academic Programs our wonderful graphic designer, of this cookbook came from the US Coordinator and Petia Kostadinova Jane Dominguez. Jane is the Senior Department of Education through the (Assistant Director). Art & Publications Production Title VI program, and the College of We are indebted to our student Specialist for the University of Liberal Arts and Sciences through its assistants who did much of the Florida College of Liberal Arts and continued support for the Center for networking, background research, Sciences Communication & Outreach European Studies. editing, and organization of material. Department. We went to her with just We are also grateful to Bob Morales They are: Jessi Axe, Georgia Bianchi, an idea. She helped us turn it into a at Drummond Press, who made it Magda Giurcanu, Edward Grodin, reality and stuck with us through all possible for us to print the cookbook Evgenia Ilieva, and Caleb Kizelewicz. the revisions. the way we imagined. Photo Credits: Jane Dominguez (cover), Glenn Kepic (6, 32, 56), Brano Kovalcik (51) Juan Pablo Rodriguez (17, 80, 103), Michael Warren (19). The recipes on the cover were handed down to Ewa Wampuszyc from her mother. Thank you to the following creative and generous people who uploaded their photos to www.flickr.com with a creative commons license, allowing free use of their photos, with attribution: 2rms (91), acme (79), adactio (13, 89), andurinha (61), arimoore (47), avlxyz (15), beautyredefined (55), bubblecup (65), Dan4th (75, 83), dwuziu (29), CeciliaHelenius (69), emacs1969 (99), foodfreak (97), FotoosVanRobin (95), Giffconstable (53), ImpipolexG (49), joaniesee (37), KayVee.INC (41), kelly-k (21), Mouse (85), NicolasPatte (77), nycnosh (35), pacoct (39), romanlily (11), SarahSerendipity (101), scalleja (21), shekay (71), StuSpivack (23), Suviko (27), thebittenword (25), UlteriorEpicure (87), yomi955 (63). 2 A Taste of Europe: Celebrating Five Years of the Center for European Studies Introduction The Center for European Studies about its culture, traditions, language, origin. Cultural information about the (CES) at the University of Florida (UF) and geography. What are the typical relevant country or dish is included was established in 2003. It is one dishes of each country? What with each recipe. of only ten federally funded Title traditions are associated with each Non-native English speakers VI National Resource Centers for dish? How do you say “onion” in Slovak, submitted many of the recipes. Some Europe and the only European Union Hungarian, or Croatian? A Taste of of these recipes were edited for clarity, Commission funded Jean Monnet Europe helps to answer some of these but where feasible, we left their Centre of Excellence in the country. questions and in doing so opens a original wording intact to savor the The core goals of the Center include door—and your kitchen—to Europe. flavor of the language. the promotion of European language A Taste of Europe contains 56 recipes We have also included a conversion and area studies research, education, from 32 countries that we gathered chart for European measures, a map and outreach. To achieve these goals from people connected in some way of Europe, and translations of 12 the CES actively supports faculty and to UF—faculty, retired faculty, visiting common cooking ingredients into 29 graduate student research, funds scholars, undergraduate and graduate languages used within the cookbook. the development of new Europe- students, staff, administration, and We hope you will enjoy this related courses and academic degree alumni. In all, the contributors to this personal tour of Europe. For more programs and promotes increased endeavor represent 18 departments information about this cookbook, public awareness of European cultures or fields from across the University how to obtain additional copies, or through a wide variety of outreach of Florida. Contributors were asked about the Center for European Studies, activities.* to provide a traditional recipe or please contact us at (352) 392-8902 or The CES is celebrating its fifth favorite recipe from any European visit us on the internet at anniversary and to commemorate country along with some background www.ces.ufl.edu. this milestone we have produced a information about its cultural, social or —The faculty, staff and students of CES cookbook of European recipes with personal significance. accompanying information about Recipes are organized into the language and culture of all of sections according to the season the countries represented, to both during which each dish is normally promote international awareness in prepared, and within each section, our community and to bring flavors recipes are arranged by course. Each of Europe into our kitchens. The recipe lists the title and ingredients traditional recipes of a country can both in English and the dominant provide quite a lot of information language spoken in the country of * Please see the CES web site (www.ces.ufl.edu) for additional information on all of these programs or look at our four-year review available at www.ces.ufl.edu/about-eval.html for a comprehensive review of CES activities. A Taste of Europe: Celebrating Five Years of the Center for European Studies 3 where in the world Austria ...........................................................13 Greece ...........................................................21 Poland ...........................................................15 Belarus ..........................................................26 Hungary........................................................17 Portugal .......................................................... 2 Belgium .......................................................... 6 Ireland ............................................................. 1 Romania .......................................................24 Bosnia and Herzegovina ........................19 Italy ................................................................10 Slovakia.........................................................16 Bulgaria .........................................................23 Latvia .............................................................28 Slovenia ........................................................12 Croatia ...........................................................18 Lithuania ......................................................27 Spain ................................................................ 3 Czech Republic ..........................................14 Luxembourg ................................................. 5 Sweden .........................................................30 Denmark ......................................................31 Macedonia ...................................................20 Switzerland ................................................... 9 Finland ..........................................................29 Malta ..............................................................11 Turkey ............................................................22