Photo: Linh Dinh
“If you ever witnessed my buddy Alexandar wolf down one of these, you’d think he hadn’t eaten in a week”.
Linh Dinh
Aleksandar of Macedonia Villages like Vladimirovo have been degraded, if not wiped out completely, but this trend must be reversed if humanity is to have a future
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an I be frontally honest and even a bit shameless with you? (No, not that, but maybe later.) What I’m trying to say, and do brace yourself here, what I’m really trying to bare, fess up and gently confide here, behind a curtain and under a sheet, sotto voce,
is that I simply do not like burek! [Pastries made of a flaky dough, filled with meat, cheese or vegetables – Editor] Shit, man, but if you ever witnessed my buddy Aleksandar wolf down one of these, you’d think he hadn’t eaten in a month, if ever. What’s the hurry, Alex? It’s hard
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to take five steps in the Balkans without having another greasy burek slap you in the face, with bits of minced meat, cheese or spinach splattering from Subotica to Burgas, if not Istanbul. I’m in North Macedonia, thanks to Alex. In 2016, he wrote me, “Would like to thank you about
