Presents a travelogue and recipe book featuring stories from the author's journeys around the Black Sea, specifically studying the history, culture, and cuisine of the cities of Osessa, Istanbul, and Trabzon.
"Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. On holidays in the "Red Riviera" on the Black Sea, she remembers playing on the beach only miles from a bristling electrified fence whose barbs pointed inward toward the enemy: the citizens of the totalitarian regime"--Provided by publisher.
A travel guide to Bulgaria that includes a pull-out map, cutaways and floor plans of major sights, information on popular hotels, restaurants, attractions, shops, and venues, and town-by-town listings of sights, beaches, and festivals.
Describes in words and photographs the topography, history, economy, society, and culture of the country situated on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe.
