For thirteenth time in a row the village of Dzulyunitsa hosted the National Culinary festival "Colourful Table". The colourful folklore festival was a live stage for the Bulgarian culinary traditions. The event's organizers, Dr. Ivelina Getsova and Ekaterina Moskova, traditionally opened the celebration with greetings and thanks to the founders, participants and sponsors. A total of ten wonderfully arranged by the talented cooks were the booths with dishes based on recipes from our grandmothers. The new addition sparked great interest in the visitors - a stand with asparagus and interesting exotic vegetables from the farm of the local producer Hristo Anchev. The ten teams from the region, participating in the culinary exhibition with dishes prepared by them personally and brought on the day of the festival, were from the host village, represented by the local retirement club "Zlatna esen" and school "P. R. Slaveikov", in which young cooks are trained in a special class. Guests from the retirement clubs of Lyaskovets and Dragizhevo, a collective team from the Kozarevets Culture center "Zemedelec-1899" and the seniors from the local club " Zdravets", as well as culinary teams from Nova Zagora, Gorna Oryahovitsa and Strazhitsa. After the jury tasted all the tasty dishes, it had its word and determined the winners of this year's awards. The prize, provided by Kotooshu's parents, was won by the cooks from Dragizhevo for overall performance. The..
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The unique festival of the hen soup was held for eleventh time in the village of Kozarevets. The official start of the tournament was given by the mayor of Municipality of Lyaskovets dr. Ivelina Getsova and Krassimira Koleva - the mayor of Kozarevets village. After all the cauldrons were lit, the cooks set about refining the broth, each adding their own secret spices to their dishes. To make the festival even more cheerful, there was homemade rakiya - a very good addition to the most popular Bulgarian soup. For a good mood, singers and dancers presented songs and dances from their repertoire. Over 20 solo and group performances included the folklore program on the open stage in central square of the village. Two dance ensembles - the children from "Ludo mlado" from Lyaskovets and the club for folk singers from Kozarevets "Hey-bray" captivated young and old and, together with enthusiasts from the audience, they performed Bulgarian folk dances. Specially invited guest performers for the festival were the duo Amphibia, as well as the granddaughters of the folk singer Guna Ivanova - Iva and Velislava Kostadinovi, who entertained residents and guests with a concert, and at the finale, their popular grandmother also sang with them. At noon, a special jury was already tasting the soups .The jury committee was made up of professionals in the industry: Ralitsa Rasheva, Plamen Karadjov and..
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