{"id":13910,"date":"2004-10-06T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/06\/ukrainian-salo-festival\/"},"modified":"2004-10-06T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T17:38:00","slug":"ukrainian-salo-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/06\/ukrainian-salo-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Salo Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2004\/06\/ukrainian-snickers-bar.html\" target=\"_blank\">my post about the &ldquo;Ukrainian Snickers Bar,&rdquo;<\/a> which is actually chocolate-covered <i>salo<\/i>, or pork fat.  I came upon a fitting follow-up to that post, a <i>BBC<\/i> report about a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3713028.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>salo<\/i> Festival<\/a> being held in Simferopil&rsquo;, Ukraine.  Why the fascination with <i>salo<\/i>?  Although I&rsquo;m Ukrainian myself, I personally don&rsquo;t see the allure, but I know from friends and family that this is not an exaggeration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Traditionally, small slices of the white snack are eaten with black bread, garlic and vodka. And, more recently, there is even a chocolate-coated version. [See? :-)]<\/p>\n<p>Many Ukrainians believe salo is good for them and even keeps them slim. They say it contains amino acids that help burn fat in the body.<\/p>\n<p>And they write poems, or sing songs, about their favourite national dish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If nothing else, stories like this make me feel slightly better about my less-than-ideal dietary habits&hellip; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109697804419087714?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember my post about the &ldquo;Ukrainian Snickers Bar,&rdquo; which is actually chocolate-covered salo, or pork fat. I came upon a fitting follow-up to that post, a BBC report about a salo Festival being held in Simferopil&rsquo;, Ukraine. Why the fascination with salo? Although I&rsquo;m Ukrainian myself, I personally don&rsquo;t see the allure, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/06\/ukrainian-salo-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ukrainian Salo Festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}