BREAKING STEREOTYPES 2008 - DAY 6

After the weekend the run of the project continued with sport matches in volleyball and ringo, in the afternoon all the teams cooked, baked, cut, sliced and tasted the delicious meals of the others. Yes, that was The day of national quisine. A few minutes before 3 p.m. the doors at the town hall opened and all teams ran inside to grab everything they needed for their cooking - knives, forks, graters, pans, pots, bowls etc. Each team was making some traditional dishes, the Czech team worked on potato cakes, scrambled eggs on fried bread and a garlic spread on rolls. And of course the most popular drink for the participants - Kofola :-) All members gave a hand and all the teams worked really very hard! The Spanish made for example gazpacho - a kind of cold tomato soup, the Italian girls prepared spaghetti with a tomato sauce, the Turkish offered their favourite sweets Turkish delight, some vegetable cakes and of course traditional Turkish tea and coffee. The Latvians had on their national table black bread, tea and typical Latvian cheese. Everybody worked as hard as he could and after some two hours the tasting could start. We also welcomed some villagers and of course the Lord Mayor with his family. The Turkish showed them how to prepare their typical coffee and gave them a nice present - a coffee pot and turkish cups. Well, I liked the most the Czech quisine, so I tried to appear as near the czech table as possible :-) The potato cakes were really delicious! And a good snack should be followed by a good coffee, so I could not refuse a cup of fresh turkish coffee, of course :-) I hope we all enjoyed that afternoon! In the evening there was a Latvian turn to present their country - they decorated the room with twigs and sprigs, showed us a presentation of Latvia and their school, and taught everybody to dance Latvian national dances. To be honest, I liked that National evening most of all.