{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/68e7a3c8d798804c9eb9c400?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Balkan Kitchen- Part Two","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/1760011183369-3cef5580-9783-4b29-9142-f9607cde99a8.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Hello, and welcome to part two of my discussion about Balkan Food with the incredible Irina Janakievska!</p><p><br></p><p>On this second part of our discussion -we pick up from where we left- we talk about the top five must try dishes of the region, that anyone who loves food should try. Foods from the heart of the Balkans.</p><p>Such as cevapi, ajvar, dolma/ sarma, bourek, and tres leches revani! Yes....Lets find out why....</p><p><br></p><p>I'm interviewing the award winning (James Beard awards on the International Category) and writer and recipe developer Irina Janakievska, author of the book \"The Balkan Kitchen, <em>Recipes and Stories from the Heart of the Balkans\".  </em>She has also won the British Library Food Season Narrative Cookery Book Award (2025) and a Special Award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (2024).</p><p>The book<em> </em>was shortlisted for the Jane Grigson Trust Award (2023) and the Fortnum &amp; Mason Debut Cookery Book Award (2025). </p><p>She has featured on BBC Woman's Hour, BBC Radio London and Times Radio discussing Balkan cuisine.&nbsp;&nbsp;She&nbsp;lives in south London with her husband and young son, cooking, researching and writing about Balkan history, food culture and culinary traditions, and where I went to chat about all things Balkan. plus tasting some delicious traditional home made specialities!</p><p><br></p><p>Photo Credit is The Balkan Kitchen (Quadrille, 2024), Copyright for photos Liz Seabrook.</p><p><br></p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>Thom &amp; The Delicious Legacy</p>","author_name":"The Delicious Legacy"}