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Ochen’ Vkusno! 8 Must-Try Eastern European Foods and Drinks

By Cedric Lizotte

April 24, 2014

You gotta have your kielbasa with a good pivo, then follow it all up with some halva and chai — or maybe a little slivovitz!

The Ten Coolest Eastern-European Books You've Never Heard Of

By Jeffrey Zuckerman

May 13, 2013

Black Balloon has just published Robert Perišić’s Our Man in Iraq, translated by Will Firth. Despite its title, the novel takes place almost entirely in Croatia and feels so deeply Eastern European in sensibility that I found myself jotting down other books from that region once eclipsed by the Iron Curtain’s shadow. Without further ado, here are ten brilliant and barely-known books from ten countries in Eastern Europe...