{"id":6073,"date":"2025-06-09T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:05:50","slug":"food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=6073","title":{"rendered":"Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

We eat well in Slovenia. Both in and out. The “out”, however, is expensive<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Lunch at Kodila. Four of us, my half of the bill came to a bit over 50 Euros. OK, there was bubbly involved…<\/p>\n

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… as well as some Mangalica<\/a> ham (which is quite unlike Ortolan<\/a> I believe).<\/p>\n

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The tomatoes are divine. As long as you’re OK with pork and chicken, and zni\u017eano and popust<\/a> (“reduced” and “discount” –many places sell stuff nearing the sell-by date at 30% to 50% off and that’s what we live on).<\/p>\n

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And this time of year, it’s asparagus season so we tend to pig out on those too.<\/p>\n

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Chicken stew. Did I mention that the chicken is so much better than what we get in South Africa? I think they leave them just a little bit longer, in South Africa chicken farming is a very exact science with the chickens being slaughtered at the exact intersection between cost-of-feed and return-on-investment.<\/p>\n

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These are the vegan and non-vegan platters at Pichler-Schober<\/a> in Austria, where things are even more expensive.<\/p>\n

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And if you are from South Africa, and you really really need a decent steak to braai on a Sunday afternoon, Kodila can help you out.<\/p>\n

But as long as you stick to the zni\u017eano, life is good.\"\"<\/p>\n

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We eat well in Slovenia. Both in and out. The “out”, however, is expensive. Lunch at Kodila. Four of us, my half of the bill came to a bit over 50 Euros. OK, there was bubbly involved… … as well as some Mangalica ham (which is quite unlike Ortolan I believe). The tomatoes are divine. As long as you’re OK with pork and chicken, and zni\u017eano and popust (“reduced” and “discount” –many places sell stuff nearing the sell-by date at 30% to 50% off and that’s what we live on). And this time of year, it’s asparagus season so we...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,28,101,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-2025","category-foooooood","category-slovenia","category-travelography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}