by Alexandra Cheney SIT Fall 2015 Denison University BELGRADE, Hours after committing to lose weight, Belgrade native Maša Miljanić states “I can’t eat anything without bread.” Bread is the mealtime constant in Serbia; it could never be the victim of a dieting purge. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner it’s on the table. Bread is immediately available wherever …
by Marija Pajković BELGRADE, The best advice a Belgrader could give you about eating a hamburger is don’t – and find a pljeskavica instead. Not to be confused with a traditional burger, pljeskavica is entirely its own. Just imagine: the patty is big, juicy, thick, and smells of backyard barbeque. The lepinja (thick pita bread) …
by Stefan Plavsic Belgrade, Believe it or not, a “Boulevard of Hungry People” really exists. It has a regular name but people call it this because of the restaurant “Shish“, which is open 24 hours, 7 days a week, feeding hungry people, and is why there are always lines of people queuing on the street. …
by Nedim Filipovic SIT Fall 2015 Claremont McKenna College Belgrade, Smokvica’s patio was alive despite the autumn chill. People, seemingly unaware of the change in season, were chatting their afternoons away. The clattering of pans, chopping of vegetables and searing of meat could be heard from the kitchen as wait staff deftly navigated a maze …
by Rachel Brustein SIT Spring 2015 Goucher College BELGRADE, Serbia The United States is not foreign land to Dah Theatre, a Belgrade-based activist theatre group. Dah has travelled to the U.S. nearly annually since its first visit for the culture program during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Since then, Dah has become renowned and respected …
This story was first published in Vice.com by Annie Cheney SIT Fall 2015 Denison University BELGRADE – Mazlam Dzemailoski is on a tight schedule. “You came at exactly the wrong time,” he said with a gracious smile. “We are collecting our Men’s National Team to go to Iceland tomorrow. There are players injured, there are …
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by Rachel Brustein SIT Spring 2015 Goucher College BELGRADE – Sixteen years after the war between Serbia and Kosovo, and seven years since Pristina unilaterally declared independence, there are not many interactions between the former foes. An NGO network with offices throughout the Balkans is working to change this with young people. The Youth Initiative …
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