〔 保加利亞小黃瓜優格冷湯 Bulgarian Cold Yogurt Soup - Tarator 〕
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到Sofia的第一個晚上,我跟沙發主Miro去超市採購,Miro買了一大袋小黃瓜還有一大袋番茄,對我是說一大袋裝得滿滿滿滿的,沒有在開玩笑的多。回到家之後他弄了一大盆沙拉,裡面有好多好多小黃瓜跟番茄,然後烤了油滋滋又發亮的保加利亞香腸。
我問他,小黃瓜是很常被用在保加利亞的菜餚裡嗎?Miro說,「我也不太確定欸,可是我就是很愛吃小黃瓜。」
結果隔天我去參加免費的food tour時,第一站吃的就是小黃瓜優格冷湯啊!又鹹又冷又酸但意外好吃的小黃瓜優格冷湯啊!!!!!聽起來超怪可是真的超適合在保加利亞乾熱的夏日飲用的,非常的消暑,是說不上來的滋味,加上我本身其實就是會直接把小黃瓜切片來吃的人 ... 所以我剛上網查了小黃瓜優格冷湯裡面到底裝了什麼:
兩根小黃瓜(約500克)、原味無糖優格(約500克)(所以小黃瓜跟優格比例是1:1嗎!)、3~4瓣蒜頭(保加利亞菜裡也很愛放蒜)(是要對付吸血鬼嗎?)(想太多)再依照個人喜好加入蒔蘿和核桃。優格要攪拌到變稀,如果覺得不夠稀也可以再加冰水或冰塊,把上述的食材通通丟進去攪拌再加上鹽跟油就完成了。
這麼簡單啊!簡單到我明天就想去買小黃瓜跟優格了啊!
其實巴爾幹半島的飲食文化大都很像,又冷又水的鹹優格是在鄂圖曼帝國時期從土耳其傳過來的,我在馬其頓也有喝到,但我在保加利亞時應該真的把我今年食用小黃瓜的扣打都用光了吧 ...。
The first night in Sofia, I went to the supermarket with my #couchsurfing host Miro. Miro bought bags of cucumbers and tomatoes. Yap I meant huge plastic bags packed with those! When we got home, he made us a huge bowl of salad mixed with lots of cucumber and tomatoes, then baked some delicious Bulgarian sausages!
I asked him if cucumber is a stable in #Bulgarian cuisine, he said he wasn't sure, but he just loves to eat cucumber ...
However, the next day I went on a free walking tour (Balkan Bites , a great experience if you want to know more about Balkan food and its Hungarian twist,) this Hungarian cold yogurt soup was the first thing I had! It was salty, cold, and sour all at the same time, but it was surprisingly tasty and refreshing!! I know the combination could sound weird, but it was perfect for the dry, hot Bulgarian summer. I really loved it, but I didn't know how to explain the taste, so I googled how its made:
Mix 2 diced cucumbers (500g), Plain yogurt (500g) till the yogurt is watery (So .. basically the proportion is 1:1;) Add 3~4 diced garlic cloves (Bulgarians also love their garlic according to my food tour guide .. maybe it's for fighting vampires? Okay just ignore my nonsense.) You can add some dill as well as walnut depending on your personal taste. Stir everything together with a teaspoon of salt and oil. You can add some water or ice cube if the yogurt is not watery enough. It is this simple :)
In fact, Balkan countries all have very similar food culture. For example, this cold and watery salty yogurt came from Turkey during the Ottoman Empire. I had it in the Bazaar in Macedonia as well, but I think Bulgaria really fulfilled all my cucumber needs for 2015 ... :P
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騰訊科技訊(Everett/編譯)據國外媒體報道﹐近日考古學家在保加利亞發掘出兩個中世紀人類骨架﹐離奇的是骨骸胸前被鐵棍戳穿了﹐這一詭異的現象使人想起了吸血鬼的傳說。在歐洲西部和中部地區的流傳著關於人死後變成吸血鬼的故事﹐當時的人們對此深信不疑﹐而該墓室中的兩具骨架胸前穿透了鐵棍就是防止他們變成吸血鬼。根據考古學家們測定﹐兩具骷髏的年代可追溯到800年前﹐其具體的地點位於保加利亞的黑海之濱索佐波爾(Sozopol)鎮上。根據保加利亞民族史博物館的負責人博日達爾季米特洛夫(Bozhidar Dimitrov)介紹﹕『這兩具胸前被鐵棍戳穿的骷髏在保加利亞的一些村莊中還是很普遍的埋葬方式﹐但是該現象直到20世紀第一個十年後就很少出現了。』從異教信仰的角度看﹐有些人認為生前幹壞事的人在死後會變成吸血鬼﹐因此死後需要用鐵棍或者木棍將胸前刺穿再埋葬。之所以將棍子類物體穿透骷髏﹐是因為當時人們認為棍子會阻礙它們離開墳墓﹐防止在午夜失蹤。歷史學家季米特洛夫統計﹐在多年來的發掘工作中﹐大約有100具屍骨的胸前被穿刺﹐防止它們變成吸血鬼。但是令季米特洛夫不能理解的是﹐為什麼一個普通的考古發現會變得如此流行﹐受到了各界的關注﹐也許是因為吸血鬼這個詞將這些普通的墓葬變得極為神秘。
季米特洛夫認為當時人們覺得會變成吸血鬼的一般是貴族和神職人員﹐但奇怪的是其中並沒有發現女性屍骨﹐可能是當時的人們並不害怕女巫。就在上個月﹐意大利的考古人員發現了一具下巴被磚頭塞住的屍骨﹐據瞭解這具屍骨的年代可追溯到16世紀﹐當時爆發了瘟疫﹐因此人們認為在死去的人嘴中塞入磚頭防止它們變成吸血鬼。佛羅倫薩大學人類學家馬泰奧博里尼(Matteo Borrini)在對一座小島的調查後發現﹐諸如黑死病等死亡瘟疫蔓延的背後都有關於吸血鬼的傳說。
在1300年至1700年間﹐瘟疫在歐洲大陸上此起彼伏﹐這段時間也是吸血鬼傳說發展到高潮的時期﹐其中也有當時的人們對屍體的自然分解並不瞭解的因素﹐比如有人將已經埋葬的墓室重新打開﹐就發現屍體的器官變得臃腫﹐而且頭髮仍然在生長﹐血液會從口中滲出﹐因此人們相信這些死去的屍體還活著。為了不使它們變成吸血鬼傳播瘟疫﹐人們就用磚頭塞住它們的嘴巴。
A skeleton pierced with a piece of iron is seen on display during a media event at the National History Museum in Sofia June 14, 2012. The museum plans to display a "vampire" skeleton on Saturday after unearthing the 700-year-old remains of two men stabbed through the chest with iron rods. Archaeologists, excavating a monastery near the Black Sea city of Sozopol, discovered the skeletons, which were buried in a pagan ritual that they said was aimed at keeping the men from turning into vampires.(Photo: Reuters) Romania has long held claim to the vampire tourism title, owing to Bram Stoker's famous 1897 novel Dracula, set in the Romanian countryside of Transylvania. While a work of fiction, Dracula nonetheless had its roots in Romanian history and historical tales of vampires.
If Bulgaria has its way, it may be hoping its latest find helps draw some of those tourist dollars away from Romania, and into the museums, hotels, and restaurants of Bulgaria.
Unearthed last week in the Bulgarian Black Sea port town of Sozopol were two 700-year-old skeletons with iron rods thrust through their chests. This practice was performed on anyone considered to be a vampire or who had the potential to return to life as a vampire, and was still in use as late as the early 19th century.
This was a pagan belief widespread in the Bulgarian lands in the 12th to 14th centuries. People were very superstitious then," National History Museum director Bozhidar Dimitrov said.
"Throughout the country we have found over 100 such 'vampire' burials of mainly noblemen from the Middle Ages who were branded bloodsucking immortals."
Given the current popular culture craze with anything vampire related, it's not surprising that the discovery has already attracted global attention. Quick to capitalize on this discovery and attention, The Natural History Museum in Sofia will put one of these skeletons on display beginning June 16, with Dimitrov saying he expects a large turnout for the display.
Legends of vampires remain prevalent in many of the Balkan countries, and there have been reports that some people in Sozopol, where the two skeletons were discovered, have been having trouble sleeping at night since the discovery.
Of course there's nothing to indicate the skeletons were actually vampires, no doubt to the dismay of many. They were simply subjected to a pagan ritual to ensure they would not become one.
Still, for anyone interested in the history and legends of vampires, it's an intriguing discovery, and one that should prove to be a boon for the Bulgarian tourism industry.
A couple of weeks ago, news brokethat archaeologists in the Bulgarian Black Sea resort town of Sozopol had unearthed the skeletal remains of two men whose corpses had been stabbed with iron rods to prevent them from rising up and feasting upon the blood of the living. An iron ploughshare was still in one grave, piercing the rib cage of the would-be revenant. An iron implement was also left behind in the second skeleton but in his abdomen, which has considerably less lore-appeal, so he hasn’t gotten as much attention as the other one.
They were found buried in the necropolis of the St. Nicolas the Miracleworker monastery. (That’s according to the National Museum of History in Sofia; this article says the necropolis was outside the church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, a church very much in the public eye right now as the host of the purported bones of John the Baptist which were discovered on the island of St. Ivan in 2010. The bones have recently been dated to the first century A.D., and DNA testing confirmed that they’re all from the same Middle Eastern man. Cue the inevitable St. John hysteria.)
The skeletons date to between the 12th and 14th centuries. The fellow with the ploughshare jammed in his chest was buried near the apse of the church, an indication that he was an important figure. Iron was used to pierce the corpses of the wealthiest men while wood was used for the less wealthy, but all the people deemed to be potential vampires were powerful, influential men in life. Clerics, civic leaders, aristocrats, intellectuals: if they were cruel and abusive with their gifts when they were alive, their souls would not ascend to heaven but would remain in their rotting corpses, driving them to rise from the grave to terrorize y’all’s neighborhood.
Archaeologists have a theory about who this particular scoundrel might have been.
Bulgarian historians believe that the vampire grave most likely belong [sic] to one of the medieval mayors of Sozopol. The man’s name was Krivich, and he is known to have had a background as a pirate and bandit who exemplified evil for the town which was part of both the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages.
“He demonstrated incompetence when defending the town from a siege. As a result, Sozopol was overrun by the Genoese who took everything away from the local residents,” [Professor Bozhidar Dimitrov, head of the Bulgarian National History Museum,] said.
I’m not sure what their grounds are for this speculation, other than the generally appropriate date (Krivich failed to protect the city from Genoese troops in the 14th century) and the plum burial spot indicating he was a man of importance, but still, medieval vampire pirate mayor …. That’s the kind of cool that cannot be denied.
The remains of 100 vampire-treated people, all of them men, all of them prominent citizens, have been found in Bulgaria. These two are the first ever discovered in Sozopol, a tiny fraction of the 700 graves unearthed in the necropolis. Most of them have been reburied, as will the Sozopol skeleton with the iron stomach. The one sporting the ploughshare in his chest, on other hand, has been sent to Sofia to go on display at theNational Museum of History. It will become part of a permanent exhibit on medieval Bulgarian folklore.
It’s tourist season, you see, and vampires are big business. Already thousands of people from Germany, Britain, Russia and the US are flocking to Sozopol to catch a glimpse of a vampire skeleton in situ. Souvenir stores are stocking up on truly awful Dracula mugs and t-shirts; “vampire steaks” and “vampire cocktails” have sprung up on menus all over town. Just to pin down the cheeseball tourism trade like it’s a dead evil nobleman, Sozopol also has plans in the works to become twinned with Sighisoara, Romania, the birthplace of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula.