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A charming video shot in the historical city center of Prague! The song written by Michael Horacek is performed by the first lady of Czech chanson, Hana Hegerova who has recently passed away.

Interested in real life & the hottest news in contemporary performance and visual arts? Curious about underground culture and philosophy in Czechoslovakia under the totalitarian regime? See my blog http://alternativecultures.wordpress.com/ I’ll be happy to take you to the alternative spaces in Prague, to music clubs and artistic studios and to show you COOL places that you would miss.

Tour pubs and restaurants with me to experience delicious Prague. Taste my choice of the best of the Bohemian cuisine.

My favorite Bohemian cookery book has been written by Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová nicknamed “the Czech Escoffier”. Her recipes are representative of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the 1st Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) the Czech gastronomy was very classy. The level of gastronomy has drastically declined after the communist takeover, many great chefs were forced either to emigrate or to cook simple meals for masses in collective canteens and good quality ingredients were often missing.

Rettigová´s cookery book was first published in 1825. This recipe  is based on veal which was a usual part of the menu in her time. Rettigova uses capres to deliver a delicate taste to this simple timeless speciality.

     Roast Veal

• 10 minutes to prepare + 10 minutes to cook
• 4 servings

Ingredients:

• 600 g (1,3 lbs) of cold roast veal
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• a handful of breadcrumbs
• grated zest from 1 lemon
• 3 tablespoons of capres
• 200 ml  (7 fl oz) of broth
• 1 tablespoon of wine vinegar
• salt, pepper and thyme
• bread, preferably white

An exhibition of one of the the most important Czech contemporary artists opens at the Prague Castle. Karel Malich is a poet of silence giving a shape to the actual moment and presenting the eternity in it. He captures the fine touch of a man with his deep interior and the universe. His enormous suspended wire objects are almost fugitive and can be described as three dimensional drawings. Come to live a colourful, fragile, poetic and highly spiritual world of one of the greatest artists of nowadays. http://www.karelmalich.cz/en/home

 

God bound man to the Earth by giving him the ability to bear continuations of himself. He let few of the many have the ability to see and understand the nothingness of everything. He changed this nothingness into energy which gives those who see and recognise it the ability to create. When they create, they forget this nothingness for a moment and form their conception of the world.

Karel Malich

Interested in Jewish culture in the Central Europe? Curious about the oldest functioning synagogue in Europe? Come to my Jewish Town tour and see my blog http://www.jewsandjudaism.wordpress.com for further material.

Since 2009 I taught a number of classes in Jewish Prague, in the Jewish History, the Holocaust and I even designed a new class in Jewish Culture.

Everything you need to know about the Cold war and life behind the Iron Curtain. Come to my Iron Curtain and Communism walk to learn more about the period in which I was growing up.

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