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An old-fashioned Advent: Not your grandma's carp and potato salad
Fried carp and potato salad is today the 'bread and butter' of any
traditional Czech Christmas meal. But this was not always so. Pious Czechs
once used to fast at Christmas; they then took to cooking meatless dishes,
such as sweet porridge with dried fruits. Slowly, fish - and finally, carp
-- became the most common fasting meal. In this week's Panorama, however,
we go along to a tasting of Advent and Christmas dishes that predate - by
centuries - the carp and potato salad tradition. Some recipes date back to
the Middle Ages and are long forgotten; others - like crispy frogs legs --
were all the rage among the chattering classes here just a century ago. More
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The Czech lottery Sazka has announced a competition in making babies! How
do Czechs envisage a perfect weekend? Are you a Karel Gott fan? You'll
soon be able to visit Gottland! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela
Lazarova.
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Czechs catching up with West, says Ivana Trump on rare visit to Prague
Ivana Trump is one of the best known, and wealthiest, Czechs in the world.
A member of Czechoslovakia's skiing team at the beginning of the 1970s,
she later became a model, before marriage to American property tycoon
Donald Trump brought her huge international fame. Now Ivana Trump is back
in the Czech Republic, where she is due to take part in a business awards
ceremony this weekend. I asked Ivana Trump, who had her mother by her
side, if she often comes home.
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The three year course
Now that it's autumn in Prague and gradually, inevitably the winter will
come, I remembered a curious incident that had happened to me the last
time the Czech lands were covered in deep snow, in March of this year.
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Aenne Burda, founder of Burda-Moden, influenced generations of Czech women
Aenne Burda, the founder of the Burda-Moden fashion publishing group and
one of Germany's most successful businesswomen, died on Thursday aged 96.
During communist times, Burda magazine was one of only very few sources of
inspiration for Czech women. Copies of the magazine were circulated readily
among Czech women who made their own clothes based on the magazine's
patterns, which were markedly different from those available in
Czechoslovakia at the time.
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Czech New Year's table
Welcome to the last episode of the culinary series of the ABC of Czech.
Having explored the Czech Christmas table last week, today we'll close the
series with a look at the New Year's menu.
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Hundreds of jokes are based on national stereotypes. But is there any truth
in national stereotyping? Researchers say: not so. The "million crown
bed" has finally made it to Prague. And, ambassadors' wives put their
heads together to bring Tastes from Around the World to central Europe.
Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Government approves national family policy
The Czech Republic currently has one of the lowest birth rates in the
world, second only to Ukraine and China. Although there are conflicting
views as to whether the state should interfere with demographic trends,
the government has now approved a national family policy which would make
it easier for Czechs to have children and enjoy parenthood.
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