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1. Zuzana says:

   December 9, 2009 at 6:56 am

   Hi Lubos,

   there is also the Slovak Spectator, which is pretty useful when it comes to news from the Slovak region.
   http://www.spectator.sk/

   Good job on the site, keeps getting better… 🙂

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   • lubos says:

     December 9, 2009 at 10:05 am

     Thanks! Just added it.

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2. Zuzana says:

   January 16, 2010 at 2:07 am

   For recipes on Slovak food (sometimes with balkan twist), unfortunatelly only in Slovak see http://baranek.blog.sme.sk/r/11169/Varime-s-medvedom.html

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3. mato says:

   March 8, 2010 at 3:50 am

   Novinky a recenzie zo Slovenska. Cestovatelsky portal http://www.mojeslovensko.sk a recepty na http://www.papampijem.sk

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4. valerian says:

   June 8, 2010 at 5:09 pm

   slovaks and czech on the western coast on facebook

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   • lubos says:

     June 9, 2010 at 6:56 am

     Thanks Valerian. I checked out the group and turns out I know few people who are already members. It’s a small (Slovak) world in the USA.

     (I also slightly modified your comment since the URL wasn’t linking properly)

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5. Susanna says:

   June 11, 2010 at 10:59 am

   Milí priatelia slovenského jazyka!
   To all friends of slovak language!

   Je nový anglicko-Slovenský slovník dict.cc (http://desk.dict.cc/) v internete. Vsetci mozu zapísat do toho slovníka slová aj frázy. Potom ini pouzivatelia kontroluju ale opravuju tie slová. Ja sa ucím po slovensky od dvoch rokov a tam zapísem moje prvé slová.
   Zial nie sù to mnohì pouzivatelia – pomoc je vítaný! Mohli by ste prosím navstivit internetovú adresu http://desk.dict.cc/ (« Mitmachen ») a kontrolovat niekolko slov. (To je samozrejme bezplatne!)

   There`s a new english-slowak online-dictionary “dict.cc” (http://ensk.dict.cc/) where everyone can participate in posting or correcting words or phrases.
   Sad to say there are only few participating in the English-Slovak section. So help is needed (http://desk.dict.cc/ „Contribute“) and new participants are cordially invited 🙂
   Of course it`s all for free!

   Dakujem pekne
   Many thanks and best regards
   Susanna (Austria)

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   • lubos says:

     June 12, 2010 at 5:16 am

     Cau Susanna, thanks for the link and good luck with your learning of Slovak. Looks like you have made quite a bit of progress already. Being in Austria, you probably have easy access to Slovakia and to Slovak language books. But, if you are looking for books online, you can order Slovak language books from panorama.sk, http://www.panorama.sk/go/zoznam.asp?lang=en&sv=3&dr=27. Wish you all the best, Slovak (and all other Slavic languages) are quite difficult and I admire any non-native who manages to master the intricacies of Slovak grammar.

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6. Susanna says:

   June 11, 2010 at 11:28 am

   Sorry – I mixed up the links for the german-slovak and the english-slovak section of the dictionary “dict.cc” in my fist comment some minutes ago.

   It’s http://ensk.dict.cc/ for the english-slowak online-dictionary and http://desk.dict.cc/ for german-slovak.

   Best regards
   Susanna

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   • Miro says:

     June 11, 2010 at 12:07 pm

     sorry but that site is sooo off in translation. Google language tools will do much better

     E.g., I typed “cukor” and got interpretation for “kufor, svokor, vrecko, utorok, uhorka, etc.) but none for “cukor”

     however, there is a link on that page to anglicko-slovensky slovnik, and that got most of things right.

     http://slovnik.azet.sk/preklad/anglicko-slovensky

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     • Susanna says:

       June 11, 2010 at 2:36 pm

       Sure – you`re right, if you look at it that way. For the time being, there are undoubtably more entries in http://slovnik.azet.sk/ or http://webslovnik.zoznam.sk/.
       But the benefit of a dictionary based on user-contributions is the possibility to add all the words or phrases you consider useful. This might be special cooking-vokabulary as well as any other.
       For me, the fascination lies in building up a high quality vokabulary rather than in competing in quantity…

       Best regards
       Susanna

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7. Jaroslav Ruzek says:

   June 30, 2010 at 9:15 am

   Ahoj, chci Vam nabidnout vzajemne uvedeni odkazu (linku) na nase stranky. Jiz jsme spolu komunikovali, na nasich strankach jsme zverejnili clanecek o Vasem webu na teto adrese http://www.krajane.org/cs/us/news/article/recepty-na-slovenska-jidla
   a odkaz na Vas web mame uveden v rubrice Odkazy v sekci USA.
   Byli bychom velmi radi, kdybyste mohl na Vasich strankach tez uvest odkaz na nas – http://www.krajane.org
   Srdecne zdravi Jarda

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8. eli says:

   November 7, 2010 at 9:00 am

   http://www.thedaily.sk/

   Správy zo Slovenska v angličtine

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   • lubos says:

     November 7, 2010 at 9:29 pm

     Thanks Eli, I have added their site.

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9. Katarina says:

   December 6, 2010 at 11:10 am

   Lubos, did I tell you about The Monastery in Norfolk, VA? It is a great restaurant owned by
   Anna and Adolf Jerabek – he is from Morava, she is from eastern Slovakia. Fabulous food. They advertise it as austrian/hungarian/german, but it has many dishes just like at home in Slovakia.
   http://www.443granby.com if you want to check it out.

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   • lubos says:

     December 12, 2010 at 11:25 am

     The restaurant looks awesome, I just added it to the links above. Will make sure to visit them when the beach season rolls around again.

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10. Carol says:

    January 1, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    HI, my cousins in Slovakia just found your website for me. It’s a gem and can’t wait to start using the recipes. Added bonus is the grammar lessons and other links. Beats searching the web. Thank you and keep it coming.

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11. Lucia says:

    January 6, 2011 at 8:42 am

    Hello everybody,
    I’m glad for findind this website! I’ve sent the link to my boyfriend (he is spanish) and he’s trying the recipes at home one after another. He love’s our food! 🙂
    I’d like to contribute here as well! So, I found in web an offer of intensive courses of slovak language in Bratislava.

    http://blaisepascal.sk/kurzy_slovenciny.html

    The price for the course is very good and I made my german course in Vienna in that language school so I can really recommend them.
    Maybe it can help to some eager slovak learners 🙂

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    • lubos says:

      January 7, 2011 at 7:45 pm

      Thank you Lucia! I just added the link. It’s good to know about this company. I am thinking about moving back to Slovakia for a year or two after I finish school to spend time with my family, and my girlfriend will likely come along. She doesn’t speak any Slovak. She is Colombian – so kind of similar to your boyfriend over there.

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12. Jonathon says:

    January 11, 2011 at 11:19 pm

    Hello Lubos —
    I just found a link for The Slovak Institute in North America, it’s located in Cleveland Ohio. http://www.slovakinstitute.com/ Have you heard of it?

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13. Janusz says:

    February 23, 2011 at 12:09 am

    Hi.
    My name is Janusz. I live in NY and i run Polish deli. In my area lives a lot of czech and slovak people. I want to get some products for them but i dont know any wholesale or distributor of this kind of products like Horcica Kremzska, matoni water etc. If some body can help me with this please contact me janusz657@wp.pl

    Thank you

    Janusz

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14. Neringa Gaus says:

    October 6, 2011 at 10:27 am

    Hi,

    We invite you to learn Slovak online and for free!

    “Slovak Online” ( http://slovake.eu ) is a multilingual website to learn the Slovak language. The portal contains language courses at different levels (A1 and A2) with many exercises, games, dictionaries and grammar references. The users can communicate with each other through forums and an internal messaging system. In addition, the page offers information about Slovakia’s geography, history, and culture.

    Sincerely,
    Neringa

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15. Michael Tkach says:

    November 30, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Where can I buy a “Haluska pan”?

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    • lubos says:

      December 1, 2011 at 7:31 am

      Try the Slovak Import Company, http://www.slovakic.com

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    • miro says:

      December 1, 2011 at 10:03 am

      what is “Haluska pan”? If I knew, maybe I could help but seriously I don’t know what it is.

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      • miro says:

        December 1, 2011 at 3:55 pm

        per Lubos suggestion, he thinks it’s haluskar, easy way how to drop halusky into boiling water.

        I bought one like this on the last Czech Slovak bazaar, it comes from this company
        http://www1.tescoma.com/en/scripts/katalog.php?gid=1050010000&id=643914

        it’s Italian based not sure they ship to the US. Darn, one of these days I’ll dive into it and start internet import/export business with Slovak food and utensils

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16. miro says:

    December 4, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Another link to consider.

    My old friend from Texas referred me to this meat place in his neighborhood, that also sells and delivers over the net. It’s run by old czech butcher family making their own sausages, bacon, smoked meat, fresh meat, etc.

    He sent me a gift package some years ago, and it was pretty good!

    http://www.praseks.com/

    http://www.praseks.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Bacon

    http://www.praseks.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=sausage

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17. Sue says:

    March 7, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    Hi Lubos, Boy you are so knowledgeable. My mom’s family is from Luxembourgh, my dad’s was eastern Europe somewhere, we really do not know. When I was little the language was spoken but never were we allowed to try and speak it. That was from both sides. Grandma would say her rosary at nite in the word. She would let me lay next to her and listen but NEVER interrupt. I am much older now & I know that what was spoken was not German. It sounded very glutteral, like from deep within the throat. Does that make sense? Anyway we grew up with food so much of what I see here. I remember boiled pork hocks, sauerkraut, crocks of cabbage, all kinds of cheeses etc. My grandma wld thicken w/sliced potatoe. One dish she made was a boiled pork roast of sorts & somehow she made a sauerkraut gravy??? It was served over mashed potatoes. Almost everything was boiled, cooked in the same water. The boiled pork roast was sliced & served w/the mashed potatoes & sauerkraut gravy. I know she put whole cloves in the water. I’m sorry this is so long but when I ran across your site it was like being back w/family. Always in the kitchen. I’m from WI. so was wondering if this was some hot spot for this nationality? Will be getting back to you. Take care.. . Sue.

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    • Josephine says:

      April 18, 2012 at 2:49 pm

      It could be Dutch language.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language

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18. Helen Rutherford says:

    April 18, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    Some wrote in recently that they had eaten hurka . Can you tell me where I can buy some.

    helenr39@verizon.net

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    • miro says:

      April 18, 2012 at 4:02 pm

      helen, not sure where you can buy it, I am sure there are some local outfits that makes and sell them but I think if you want one you will have to make it on your own, as hurka is a fresh “stuff” and thus if it’s not from a local source it won’t work.

      That is frustration in trying to buy a Slovak food stuff, stuff has to be fresh, meaning a local maker and delivery, when it comes to hurka, it has to be fresh and thus difficult to buy over Internet

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      • miro says:

        April 19, 2012 at 1:48 am

        Oh BTW, you can buy it from geiers, german sausage store in Sarasota FL. They ship all over the US

        http://www.geiers-sausage.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=121

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19. Helen Rutherford says:

    April 24, 2012 at 11:18 am

    Miro will try the sausage store in Florida for hurka.
    The person looking for a haluskar–I have a german spaezle (spelling) maker that looks very similar. I bought it at a regular cooking supply store.

    helenr39@verizon.net

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20. Kristina says:

    June 18, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    Hi

    Do you know of Zlata Praha in Astoria, Queens? They have great dumplings!

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21. Phil says:

    September 8, 2012 at 12:24 am

    What about Burciak? I visited western Slovakia in September last year and a year later, i find that i’m craving the sweet drink! It seems like it would be simple. Can anyone tell me how I could make it here in NA? Phil.

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    • Susanna says:

      September 8, 2012 at 4:48 am

      Hi Phil!

      Burciak is just very young (and thus not all done) wine with less alcohol but still some sugar and taste of grapes left. So you can only get it in autumn while the work on the new wine is still “in progress”.

      As I’m Austrian, I don’t know if there’s a word for in English or if you can buy it in the US.
      But if you just fancy the taste you could try to mix wine with some club soda and apple juice 😉

      Best regards
      Susanna

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22. Susanna says:

    September 8, 2012 at 4:51 am

    …of course it ought to be grape juice, not apple juice.

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23. Carolyn Skalla says:

    October 12, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    As the first non-slovak (English/Hungarian) in my husbands family, I am looking for a person/website that has a dumpling maker. My mother-in-law brought these back for each of her 4 daughters when she made a trip. It was a year before we married 40 years ago. It looked like a frying pan (stainless?) that you held over the pot of water with a holes in the bottom. Can anyone help me? Thanks. Carolyn

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    • miro says:

      October 12, 2012 at 3:10 pm

      Carolyn, I think I’ve already posted the link but not sure when and in which thread.

      I am using this and it works very well, and it’s not expensive. You can order it from Target on-line

      http://www.target.com/p/norpro-spaetzle-maker/-/A-10965968#prodSlot=dlp_medium_1_3&term=pasta dumpling maker

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24. Allen says:

    November 21, 2012 at 11:13 pm

    I would like to buy a bogracs for gulyas. Where can I find good ones?

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25. hanka says:

    February 19, 2013 at 9:39 am

    hi guys, i live in MD and was wondering if there are any “slavic” grocery stores or any place i can buy slovak/czech stuff in the metro DC area. thanks

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    • miro says:

      February 19, 2013 at 1:02 pm

      hanka, I live in DC area for 35 years. In the past there were some stores selling slovak/czech stuff, but they are all gone. I used to go to a “hungarian specialties” store in Fairfax, they sold a slovak specialties as well, but the store is long time gone.

      The only one I know that is close to slovak/czech stuff, is a polish specialty store
      http://www.kielbasafactory.com/
      not much of czech/slovak but its close (especially when it comes to meat/klobasy).

      It’s a shame as DC area is really international community and Slovaks/Czechs should have some better representation. Oh well

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26. hanka says:

    February 19, 2013 at 7:08 pm

    well thats a shame!i guess they didnt make a lot of money… i just moved here from scotland where there is a polish supermarket in every corner. one also had a decent range of svk/cz stuff like zlaty klas, tatranky etc. and since the rest of the stuff is similar i used to shop there. i might pop into that deli if i am in the area… thanks Miro!

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27. hanka says:

    February 19, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    oh yeah one more thing… i say a banner for a slavic food festival in silver spring late last year… anyone know when or where another one will be? thanks

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28. george says:

    April 7, 2013 at 12:49 pm

    I am not sure if you would add it as a link but I have been watching one Slovak tv channel over the internet at http://www.stv.sk. I like to watch the news (spravy). You can watch it live if your connection is good enough but I usually watch the archived version. It has helped my vocabulary.

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    • lubos says:

      April 8, 2013 at 6:58 am

      Thanks George, I just added the link.

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29. Jakub says:

    April 13, 2014 at 2:16 am

    Hi, if you want try Czech recipes, or read about traditions in Czech republic, I can recommend: http://www.czechcuisine.net/

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30. Mark Duch says:

    November 23, 2015 at 11:02 am

    Wanted to let you know about a Czech & German restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, called The Pantry. It’s great!

    http://www.littlerockpantry.com/

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31. Johnathan says:

    May 10, 2018 at 12:21 am

    I’d like to find out more? I’d love to find out some additional
    information.

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32. forex forum says:

    October 28, 2018 at 8:23 am

    Why users still use to read news papers when in this technological world everything is presented on web?

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33. Tom says:

    February 27, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    How about a link to the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids, IA? The museum side of the organization has extensive collections from both countries and brings exhibits from those countries to their galleries. The library side has a collection that brings in researchers from around the country and the world, and those of you doing genealogical research will find useful links to on-line resources. Here is the web address: https://www.ncsml.org/.

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34. Bill Gregor says:

    April 13, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    I was looking thru your web site and noticed Slovak House / Toronto – I believe your link may be incorrect. I found the web site at – https://www.kanadskyslovak.ca/index.php/toronto/events-in-toronto/144-from-the-opening-of-the-slovak-house-in-toronto

    You may wish to update your link

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35. Lakhdar Brague says:

    August 24, 2020 at 1:54 pm

    Hello
    thank you for giving me this opportunity, which I have been waiting for it
    some time to learn the language
    Slovak..

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