HOBBY
We are in honey
We learned all the secrets of the work of the only honey sommelier in Belarus Today, approximately 1.5 million tonnes of honey are produced in the world, and almost half of it is counterfeit. Honey is one of the ten most frequently counterfeited products. Honey sommeliers are called upon to protect its quality (and name!). Today our guest is Olga Gavrilik, Master of Technical Sciences, the first and so far the only certified honey and mead maker sommelier in Belarus and amateur beekeeper in the ...
06.12.2023Belarus , hobby , honey , sommelier
To the shore of Mukhavets River for a round loaf
A resident of Kobrin told why she returned to Belarus after living abroad for a decade and a half Italy or Belarus? The answer is obvious to Anna Marach. Having lived abroad for a decade and a half, she returned to her native Kobrin and is happy. “I’m proud that I was born and raised in this city,” says Anna, to whom we came for fragrant wheat bread. A year ago, she learned to bake loaves and is glad that baking, which has become her favourite business in her life, is gaining momentum. She felt ...
15.11.2023belarusian , hobby , baking , bread , Anna Marach
Lord of the Polesian lakes
We visited a unique craftsman who has been making boats using ancient technology for almost 40 years A picturesque place in the Ivanovo District of the Brest Region is known as the capital of a major culinary festival Motol Treats (Motalskiya Prysmaki). But few people know that the only boat master in the country lives here. Pavel Raikevich is a fourth-generation artisan. From an early age, he adopted the experience of his father — now he passes on secrets to his sons and grandchildren. He ...
21.09.2023belarus , crafts , hobby , craftsman , boats , ancient technology
Not a day without drive
Motorcyclist twins Zhivutskys from Orsha and their twin wives travel around Belarus on personally created trikes What biker doesn’t like to ride fast? Andrei and Valery Zhivutsky are no exception. The brothers are multiple champions of Belarus in sidecar motocross. Moreover, they participated in the World Cup. They have been going, or rather riding, to the cherished goal for more than a dozen years in order to perform well at international competitions in their 50s! Sensation on the way The ...
15.12.2022Motorcyclist , hobby
The charm of mamzelka from Gorodnaya
We saw how the ancient pottery is preserved in Polesie Potter Pavel Ermolenko Zban, zlivach, semak, odinets, rynka... Each pot has its own purpose. A glechik — for milk, a banka — for wine. Polak, the largest in volume, is designed for a pood of grain. Just a litre — mamzelka, this is the smallest dishes from Gorodnaya used in everyday life… A plein-air of potters was held in one of the former capitals of pottery, the Polesie village of Gorodnaya in the Stolin Region, in which 24 craftsmen from ...
18.08.2022hobby , pottery , polesie
Belarusian Provence
... buzz was started, and the hobby began to transform into a ... like-minded people in every hobby — people who appreciate and understand ...
04.08.2022Belarusian Provence , lavender , hobby
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