Tag Archives: Orevnitza

A Christmas Food Story: Father’s Nuts

By Vanessa | Published: December 23, 2011
Last Christmas I posted about orevnitza, the Serbian bread we eat at Christmas…What I didn’t mention was that there’s a back story to orevnitza from my childhood. A story about foraging (or stealing), mortification, and class difference. I wrote it down about ten years ago and never published it. When I finally went public with [...]
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Orevnitza—The Serbian Bread we eat at Christmas

By Vanessa | Published: December 24, 2010
This bread is something my mom’s Serbian family made for holidays. Even my mom, pretty much a non-cook, felt duty bound to make it at Christmas time. Strangely, there doesn’t seem to be much information on the Internet about the origins of this bread. I have no idea if it’s still made today in The [...]
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