Filed under: Radio | Tags: Allergies, Belfast, Butchers, Cooking, Cracow City, Cregagh Road, Farming, Immigrants, Meat, Organic, Poland, Polish Food, Restaurant, Slaughterhouse, St. George's Market, Supermarkets, Tesco
Cracow City Restaurant
This week: food in Belfast.
First, to the city’s first Polish restaurant, Cracow City, located on the Cregagh Road in East Belfast. Its owner tells of why he opened Cracow City, how he’s adapted Polish home-cooking to the Irish palate, and upcoming events at the restaurant. He also treats us to a Polish sing-along, with some of Cracow City’s customers providing him back-up vocals.
Then, to St. George’s Market to hear from Brian Wallace, who runs an independent organic farm with his family near Coleraine. They sell fruits, vegetables and meat at the market every Saturday. He explains why they decided to start their own farm, what the advantages and drawbacks of going organic are, and how local farmers cope with the business practices of supermarket giants like Tesco.
Kristof, Cracow City's owner
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Bacon, BBC, Belfast, Cabbage, Cereal, Champ, Curry, Film, John Vance, Queen's University Belfast, Restaurant, Spuds, Stephen Bleakney, Students, The Troubles
Spuds
Episode 13 goes to Spuds to talk with its owner John Vance about the restaurant’s place in Belfast. The second half features an interview with Stephen Blakeney, the head of Queen’s Movie Society, about the society’s short films and the state of film-making in Northern Ireland today.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Ethnic Minorities, Restaurant, Politics, EU, Serbia, Democratization, Islam, Turkmenistan, Mexican food, Boojum, Botanic Avenue, Elections, Radicals, Nationalism, Burritos, Boris Tadic, Vojislav Kostunica, Zoran Djindjic, Turkmenbashi, Belgrade, Balkans, Migration, Central Asia, Immigration, Philadelphia
Boojum's owners
Episode 8 has Dusan Spasojevic explaining why he is afraid of Serbia’s presidential election; John Blisard on his new Mexican restaurant, Boojum, on Botanic Avenue; and Bayram, the first person from Turkmenistan to live in Northern Ireland, on adjusting to life here.
Bayram in Lady Dixon Park
