Polish cuisine

The Onassis Cultural Center kicks off the new season with a big block party, inviting its friends and neighbors to dance, mingle and make merry. Apart from a great lineup of DJs and live talent, there will be visual effects from The Queer Archive, performances by Kangela Tromokratisch, A Man to Pet and the Go Go Boys, free beer, sesame bagels and hot dogs. The free event starts at 5.30 p.m.

Food company Chipita's consortium with Indian peer Britannia Industries foresees revenues of some 26.65 million euros in the first three years of operation in India and a 25 percent market share from the packaged croissant to be produced in the subcontinent.

Fifty-eight-year-old Burhan Y?lmaz is on his feet for more than 12 hours a day, selling the main fuel for millions of busy Istanbul residents: Simit, the legendary Turkish bagel with sesame seeds.  
    

The recipes of cabbage rolls - sarmale - are as numerous as the cooks, while the delicious dishes could be prepared in so many ways that a book could be written with such meals only.

Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

By Takis Theodoropoulos

Societe Generale Expressbank and the ?Regional Urban Development Fund" AD have granted an 8-year investment loan of over EUR 14 M to Plovdiv-based bread and bakery products manufacturer Simid Agro EOOD under the Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (JESSICA) initiative.

This is from Naz?m Hikmet's poem, "Our Women": "And women, our women, with their magnificent sacred hands? our mothers, lovers, wives, who die without ever having lived and whose place at our table comes after our ox?" 

Like all his work, this is an incredible poem, full of correct observations, describing the place of women in the mind of Turkish men. It was written in 1922.

Guest houses, motels and hotels of the alpine spas in northern Romania's Maramures are fully booked for the New Year's night and the other three days to come of the winter holiday.

Greek bakers in the northern city of Thessaloniki have made a giant «koulouri,» a ring bread similar to a bagel, around the city's most visible monument, the medieval White Tower.

The bread, 165 meters (540 feet) in diameter, weighed 1.35 tons before baking.