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From: radenski@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Bulgarian yogurt recipe
Date: 25 Jul 92 08:22:38 -0600
Organization: Minnesota State University System

Dear News Readers,

I think that some of you might be interested in a real 
old recipe to make your own "kiselo mlyako" (Bulgarian 
yogurt). The recipe is the same as the one that I followed 
to prepare "kiselo mlyako" in Bulgaria, when my 
children were babies. Now I am sucessfully using this 
recipe in the U. S.

I am using plain yogurt from the stores in U.S.A. and 
regular types of milk:

	1 gallon of milk (1%, 2% or whole milk) 
	1 lb. plain yogurt (make sure that the 
		label says "with active bacteria", 
		no garrantee for success otherwise)

Put milk in large saucepan and heat it over medium heat 
till boiling. Put the milk aside and let cool for about 
35-45 min. You can check the milk with small
finger -- it (the milk) should be warm, but not very hot 
(If you wish you can use termometer: 43-45 C).  

Beat yogurt with fork or steel wrisk in a bowl. Add 1 cup
warm milk, mix well. Little by little add yogurt-milk 
mixture to the rest of the milk. Mix again.  Pour milk 
into glass jars or ceramic bowls with lids. Put jars 
on a flat surface. Cover with something that will keep it
warm, as a folded blanket or a sleeping bag (I am using 
a sleeping bag). Let it stay for 2 hours and 30 min. 
Check "kiselo mlyako" - it should be thick. Let stay uncovered
at room temperature for 30 min. Put in the refrigerator 
for 3-4 hours. Enjoy the results.

Makes 8 lb.  Do not vorget to save 1 lb. to make next portion 
of "kiselo mlyako".

Da vi e sladko! (kiselo)


Roumi Radenska


P. S. It is also possible to make "sirene" (Bulgarian white 
cheese) at home, but it requires more efforts and "maya"
(east) from Bulgaria. (I have no idea whethere it is available
in the U.S.)
From: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: Have you made Bulgarian Yogurt outside Bulgaria?
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:00:31 GMT
Reply-To: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK

In article <5373@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> ehganm2@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Nikolay Mehandjiev) writes:
>Have you made Bulgarian Yogurt outside Bulgaria?
>
[deleted]


Bravo Niki. Thanks for the writing. I have to tell my wife to try the
recepie :-) 

>Well, now you can guess one of the things I miss from Bulgaria (on
>the old and nearly forgotten call (by Luben Boyanov) for discussion

I'll write on this topic myself one day, but I have few other topics to
persue as well :-( (although I'm also tired from one of them - yes - i'm
"tired" from Macedonia, but have few more things to say/ask/point out).

>2 months ago with just one person (Dimitar Bojantchev) brave enough
>to write on it and all the rest not missing anything (or just shy
>to write and admit?)).

it's a pity but let us keep few hopes for the bright future :-)

>Thanks in advance to you all for the "kiselo mleko" co-operation!

Da ti e sladko :-) (i na drugite ...


>Nikolay Mehandjiev

Luben
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
From: dim2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Alexander Dimitrov)
Subject: Re: Er Golyam
Keywords: alphabet, er golyam
Reply-To: dim2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:44:37 GMT

In article <peter.711991596@itnux2.cineca.it> peter@itnux2.cineca.it (Peter Yovchev) writes:
>dim2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Alexander Dimitrov) writes:
>
>   [deleted]
>
>>Another symbol that can be used is 'w', to go for 'zh' (zhaba), since
>>again upon closer inspection one can see a great similarity with the
>>cyrillic counterpart \|/ ( that is the symbol for 'zh')
>>	       	     /|\
>
>'W' is also similar to 'sh'-symbol |_|_| .

I agree. It can be used for that instead :-)

>>Well, that is all for now. What follows is Peter's alphabet with my
>>suggestions to the right of his. I'd be glad to hear from you.
>
>
>Let's see what's happening :
>
>
>>>
>>>The alphabet is as follow:
>>With my suggestions to the right
>>>
>>>a
>>>b
>>>v,w	- no 'w' here
>>>g
>>>d
>>>e
>>>j,/zh/	- w
>>>z
>>>i
>>>y
>>>k
>>>l
>>>m
>>>n
>>>o
>>>p
>>>r
>>>s
>>>t
>>>u
>>>f
>>>h
>>>c
>>>ch
>>>sh	- [
>
>very nice letter '[`. 
>
>
>>>sht	- ]
>
>also very nice letter ']', but I'm afraid that both are very similar.
>
>
>for instance : "]e[e"-'shteshe'
>"[i['-'shish'

One should note, that the images of the Cyrillic letter Sh and Sht
also look very much alike. So this is not an argument against the
proporsal, but may be considered as pro.


>
>>>q	- y
>
>Wait it seems that we have already this letter.
>Just look back. It is for 'i-kratko'.
>So that is a conrtadiction in the alphabet proposed by you.
>for instance "Pyrvomay".

Well, I have missed that. But of course i-kratko has long been denoted
with 'j', so we can just continue the case. 
Therefore: Pyrvomaj. Nice?


>
>>>y -Er malqk in the 'consonant-er malqk-o' combination
>
>Poor letter we use it for the third time.

I already explainde in my previous post that the use of 'y' from both
er-malyk and er-golqm won't lead to confusion, since er-malyk is used
only along with 'o'.

>
>>>yu
>>>ya	- q
>
>
>It is not bad to have an exotic ideas for the alphabet but
>don't forget that the alphabet is a set of letters not of
>signs like parentheses,slashes etc.

I tend to disagree with that. An alphabet is a set of signs, through
which statements can be expressed. Anything that is convenient will
do, IMHO. I can as well use chineese pictograms for this purpose, but
that will be hardly labeled convenient ( for the bulgarian language).
So I use [ and ] instead :-)


>And of cource it is impossible to have an alphabet with contradictions.

What reminds me of the Russian way of spelling. They have this e" (e
with double dots), which is a soft e, but they don't write it, using
ordinary e instead. The analogy is quite obvious. Any comments?


>All the best
>
>Peter Yovchev

Na sluka
Sasho

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From: peter@itnux2.cineca.it (Peter Yovchev)
Subject: Re: Er Golyam
Keywords: alphabet, er golyam
Organization: Laboratorio di Fisica Computazionale, INFM. Trento Italia
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:46:54 GMT

lyubomir@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Lyubomir L Alexandrov) writes:


   [deleted]
>>
>>Dobar den,
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Drago
>>
   [deleted]
>In my correspondence with other Bulgarians we
>use "q" to denote this sound - the "q" is good for nothing
>else in this case and with more imagination it resembles
>the Bulgarian letter turned to 180 degrees around the
>center of the "q" (I can hear those of you that hate maths).
>Therefore we would write:

and also some of the old cyrillic keyboard drivers used the "q"-key
for "Er Golyam" letter /if I remember well/.

The alphabet proposed by my friend Lyubo Alexandrov has one 
advantage. No lexical contradictions.

I think we can use it as a standart for posting information in
bulgarian.

The alphabet is as follow:

a
b
v,w
g
d
e
j,/zh/
z
i
y
k
l
m
n
o
p
r
s
t
u
f
h
c
ch
sh
sht
q
y -Er malqk in the 'consonant-er malqk-o' combination
yu
ya


   [deleted]  

>It was a little strange at first, but
>after my friends & I got used to it, now
>it is almost as natural as to write it in 
>cyrillic.

I already proposed this alphabet to Niki Mehandjiev and Arseni Markov
and they both agreed.



>I am very curious to see the reaction to this suggestion
>in this newgroup.  

Me too.


>Sincerely,
>Lyubo
>lyubomir@cs.buffalo.edu


Ciao


Peter

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From: dim2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Alexander Dimitrov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: Er Golyam
Keywords: alphabet, er golyam
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:04:22 GMT
Reply-To: dim2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <peter.711895614@itnux2.cineca.it> peter@itnux2.cineca.it (Peter Yovchev) writes:
>and also some of the old cyrillic keyboard drivers used the "q"-key
>for "Er Golyam" letter /if I remember well/.
Well, this topic already came once, but died faster than now. I'll
repeat my ideas about the alphabet. As much as i remember, in older
kb-drivers the letter 'q' was used for 'ia'. And luckily it even
resembles 'ia' (without one of the legs, but closer than rotating it
to 180 degrees etc.) And 'y' was used for er-goliam as well, without
any particular reason though. But since it can also be used as
er-malak, as in e.g. 'Kolyo', it is feasible, that 'y' be used for
both symbols, as no ambiguity would arise.

Recalling the old keybord driver, one remembers that there were
symbols, used for 'sh' and 'sht', corresponding to the keys '[' for
'sh' and ']' for 'sht', which can also easily be adopted. 

Another symbol that can be used is 'w', to go for 'zh' (zhaba), since
again upon closer inspection one can see a great similarity with the
cyrillic counterpart \|/ ( that is the symbol for 'zh')
		     /|\

Well, that is all for now. What follows is Peter's alphabet with my
suggestions to the right of his. I'd be glad to hear from you.


>The alphabet proposed by my friend Lyubo Alexandrov has one 
>advantage. No lexical contradictions.
>
>I think we can use it as a standart for posting information in
>bulgarian.
>
>The alphabet is as follow:
With my suggestions to the right
>
>a
>b
>v,w	- no 'w' here
>g
>d
>e
>j,/zh/	- w
>z
>i
>y
>k
>l
>m
>n
>o
>p
>r
>s
>t
>u
>f
>h
>c
>ch
>sh	- [
>sht	- ]
>q	- y
>y -Er malqk in the 'consonant-er malqk-o' combination
>yu
>ya	- q

Regards,
Sasho




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From: svilen@sofia.ks.uiuc.edu (Svilen Tzonev)
Subject: Re: Have you made Bulgarian Yogurt outside Bulgaria?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:54:21 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.200645.19746@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il>  writes:
> In article <5373@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> ehganm2@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Nikolay  
Mehandjiev) writes:
> >Have you made Bulgarian Yogurt outside Bulgaria?
In soc.culture.bulgaria article  
<1992Jul21.200645.19746@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> you wrote:
> In article <5373@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> ehganm2@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Nikolay  
Mehandjiev) writes:
> >Have you made Bulgarian Yogurt outside Bulgaria?
If you accept that speaking Bulgarian while the yogurt gets ready, makes  
it bulgarian - yes, otherwise - no.

> Actually the name of the germ is Lactobacillus bulgaricus. As far 

My version of the name is Lactum Bacillus Bulgaricum - LBB.
As far as, I know the bacteria thrives not only in Bulgaria but also in  
some neighboring regions to the south-west and south ( guess the names ).  
Whenever taken away, it quickly transforms/looses some characteristics. (  
here I may be wrong - I think the main reason the LBB is praised is  
because it somehow changes the cow/sheep milk sugar and makes it similar  
to the human one ).

During the 60's and 70's LBB was very popular in Western Europe and  
especially in Japan. For some reason(s) it never become popular in U.S.
 
When I buy yogurt from the store it's ok. I tried to make it in Illinois  
using my grandmother's recipe. One could still call the result "yogurt"  
but no more.

In fact I was a bit disappointed because I couldn't taste a big difference  
between kiselo mliako and plain yogurt. The latter performs quite well in  
airan or tarator. What is your opinion?
 
> Apart from that skiing at Bansko, climbing Vihren, going to Nessebar -  
plenty
> of things I can't have here.

Great! We have so similar tastes!
> 
> >Nikolay Mehandjiev
> 
> Christo Houbaviy
> Department of Molecular Genetics and Virology
> The Weizmann Institute of Science
> Rehovot, Israel
> 
> bitnet: lihouba@weizmann

Svilen

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Illinois - the best place for skiing /in the Midwest/.
From: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: Birthrate in BG about to rise!
Date: 26 Jul 92 17:12:52 GMT
Reply-To: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK

In article <1992Jul26.060741.14750@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> lihouba@iris.weizmann.ac.il (Christo Houbaviy) writes:

[news deleted - thanks for them]

>makes 5.5 condoms/day which is more than enough.

According to some old jokes I remember, one can say "Just enough to survive
without a risk of contracting AIDS" :-)

>Cheers,
>Christo

Likewise
Luben
From: gls@ssd.kodak.com (Gary Simonds 253-1980)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Need suggestions
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:35:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Jul24.143511.19474
Organization: Eastman Kodak


In mid August, my wife and I will have the pleasure of visiting
Bulgaria. We will be near the city of Ruse in some of the local
villages.

We will be staying with a gentleman (~60 years old) and then with
a woman (~40 years old) and her two daughters.

We would like to properly show our appreciation to the families
that are hosting us. Could you suggest some ideas for gifts or 
actions that would be appropriate.

Since we really don't know the culture well, any tips on
courtesy or even things not to do will be appreciated.

We are also visiting several orphanages while in Bulgaria. We plan
to bring gifts for the children (sweets, coloring and picture books,
crayons,..?) and for the orpanage (non-perscrition medical
supplies,..?). Any other suggestions?

Thank you and my regards,

Gary Simonds
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: Birthrate in BG about to rise!
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:58:20 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

svilen@sofia.ks.uiuc.edu (Svilen Tzonev) writes:


>I don't know about England or Israel but here in the middle of the Midwest
>"such kind of jokes" could be easily declared very SEXIST. ;-)

>So, keep it in mind folks...

>Svilen

And if you allow me to continue the line of your thought, Svilen:

Keep it in mind folks, that the shadow  of "political correctness" and
signs of "-isms" and feminazi invasion are still a U.S. limited thing...
The "speech codes" as well. But who knows what the future may bring?

For god's sake, keep Europe sane and in good sense of humor!

Bulgaria is just creating its "freedom of speech", don't let it be
poluted by "-ism" inventions that elegantly try to undermine the First
Amendment in this country...

Sorry, Svilen if that's not what you meant to say.

Fare well,

Arseny
From: sutin@helios.ucsc.edu (Brian Sutin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: Koutev?
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:31:40 GMT
Organization: Lick Observatory UCSC
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.ucsc.edu

In article <123380001@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mhn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mark Notess) writes:
>I'm interested in getting recordings of the Bulgarian women's
>chorus, but I prefer the more traditional arrangements (i.e., Koutev's)
>to the ones currently in vogue.  Anyone know what's available?
>Also, I'd be interested in any discography on Bulgarian instrumental
>music (again, traditional folk stuff).
>

CD's I have of Bulgarian music are:

Stambolovo '88						Balkanton 060101
Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares				Explorer 9 79165-2
Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 2			Explorer 9 79201-2
Villiage Music of Bulgaria / Bulgarian Folk Music	Explorer 9 79195-2
Music of Bulgaria / Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic	Explorer 9 72011-2
The Severnyashki Folk Ensemble Round The World		Gega GD 103
The Greatest Bulgarian Folk Dances			Gega GD 106
Balkana / The Music of Bulgaria				Hannibal CD-1335
The Forest is Crying / The Trio Bulgarka		Hannibal CD-1342
Two Girls Started to Sing...				Rounder CD-1055
Bulgarian Polyphony Vol. 2 / The National Folk Ensemble	Victor VDP-1462
Balkan -- Mysterious Voices of Bulgaria			Virgin 2-91368

"Two Girls..." is very poor -- don't buy it.  "Balkan" is the soundtrack
to a documentary.  "Stambolovo" is modern wedding band music.  "Bulgarian
Polyphony" #1 and #2 are both out of print (they are Japanese).  Many
of these CDs can be ordered my mail from Elderly Instruments, a company
in East Lansing, Michigan (call information for the number).  They have
a catalogue they will send to you.

There are an infinite number of records, few of which make it out of
Bulgaria.

Brian Sutin				sutin@helios.ucsc.edu
Lick Observatory, UCSC			Santa Cruz, CA 95064
    Fred:   "May I rescue you?"
    Ginger: "No, thank you.  I prefer being in distress."
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
From: svilen@sofia.ks.uiuc.edu (Svilen Tzonev)
Subject: Re: Have you made Bulgarian Yogurt outside Bulgaria?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:47:13 GMT


yeah, it's getting interesting...

hey folks, take it a bit easier, PLEASE.


Arseny Nikolaev Markov writes

- text deleted -

> Look, Luben, Svilen and not Niki came with the "LBB" invention. And

- text deleted -
 
> If a person is not a professional,he/she shouldn't come up with name  
>"inventions"...
 
> Fare well!
> 
> Arseny

I'm sorry Arseny but this time you are wrong. LBB abbreviation is not my  
invention. There is an institute in Sofia: Center for Biogenic Stimulants,  
Slivnitza 211. One of their rather successful products is called LBB based  
on Lactobacillus Bulgaricus ( I checked in my digital Webster - the  
english term is Lactobacillus Bulgaricus! so you are correct for this).

Well, people from this institute use the term "LBB" as a substitution for  
Lactobacillus Bulgaricus.

Let's close the page. 

BTW, if you watched the opening of the Olympics, did you notice what   
Bulgaria is famous with in the sports arena? It wasn't kiselo mliako...
The comment of the NBC speaker was "home of the weight lifting ... " and  
later "... use of steroids ...". :-( 

best regards,

(less ignorant => less knowing) Svilen
lihouba
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: looking for email connection into Sophia
From: lihouba@iris.weizmann.ac.il (Christo Houbaviy)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:56:48 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.bulgaria
Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science, Computation Center

In article <1992Jul24.235905.1267@danbo.bg> daniel@danbo.bg (Daniel Kalchev)
writes:
[About EuNet in BG - article deleted to save space.]

Dear Mr. Kalchev and dear anyone@anysite.bg
I was very happy to learn that FINALLY Bulgaria is entering the Internet and in
particlular that you now have access to the UseNet. I don't know for how long
you have been reading this newsgroup but a lot of people here would be happy to
hear any news about BG. A lot of us I believe sometimes feel homesick and a
line or two whenever you or your colleagues or anybody has time would be
appreciated. I hope I am not asking too much.

Regards,

Christo Houbaviy
Department of Molecular Genetics and Virology
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

bitnet: lihouba@weizmann
internet: lihouba@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: Have you made Bulgarian Yogurt outside Bulgaria?
Date: 24 Jul 1992 00:13:48 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

svilen@sofia.ks.uiuc.edu (Svilen Tzonev) writes:

>	Ashamed. Sorry for my ignorance.

>Now Arseny, you'll maybe elucidate why / if true / Lactobacillus  
>bulgaricus doesn't grow (normally or well or ... ? ) outside the region?

>Did kiselo mliako become popular in US after Dr. Kondareva's cotract? 

>( I talked once with a japanese girl and she knew about and liked bulg.  
>k.m. in Japan.)

>best reagards from:
>nonprofessional, ignorant, curious, Svilen


Svilen, accept my apologies. I tried to send them personally but for
some reason the e-mail bounced stating "unknown user". I was too harsh
on you in my poster and I'm sorry about that.

Now on the subject. "Kiselo mliako" did not become popular in the States
neither before nor after the contract. I'm afraid I don't know the exact
reasons except that the interested company was no longer interested.
Beats me! Probably they did some surveys on taste preferences of the
average american customer...

On your first question I can't tell you much as well. I just know that
the thing doesn't grow in culture. Don't know why. So, I am as ignorant.

Have a good one,

arseny
From: rado@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Radoslav Radev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: BULGARIAN YUGOURT, CHEESE, WINE AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Date: 22 Jul 1992 06:12:28 GMT
Organization: Space Science Labs
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu

RE: BULGARIAN YOUGURT, CHEESE, AND CULTURAL GATHERINGS


	The situation around San Francisco Bay Area is very
favourable ragarding food, thanks to the increadible diversity
of cultures in California. There are several brands of yougurt
here like Pavel's (on the logo looks like a russian "muzik" with
"rubashka" - beats me why), Dannon, Yoplait, etc. The best is
Mountain Yougurt that I`ve seen in Los Angeles area too and is 
very thick, made of Bacilicum Bulgaricum according to its label
and is not "bezbozno" expensive.  "Bulgarian" cheese or as here is
known as feta cheese ( our Greek neigbours had reserved this 
name too) is available in the supermarkets ( Lucky, Safeway etc)
but is far away from what any Bulgarian knows. It is actually
a low quality very dry cruncy greek cheese from Crete. There are numerous 
shops big and small that offer good greek feta cheese, french 
feta cheese, danish feta cheese and of course marvelous real
Bulgarian feta cheese. It is available also in tin cans - 
"tenekii" - delicious sheep white cheese, producer Rodopa.
Even one recent bulgarian immigrant imports it too, but not on
a large scale. 

	We also can buy bulgarian beer - Zagorka and Astika,
but not Shumensko. Bulgarian wine are well accepted too -
Trakia - merlo and cabarne souvergnon (apologies for wrong
spelling).

	The cultural life of the Bulgarians around Bay Area
is centered around newly established Bulgarian Orthodox
Church ( December 1991). It has still not own pemises and
uses the beautiful facilities of the Greek Orthodox Church
in Oakland Hills overlooking the San Francisco Bay. A fund 
is established to build own Church building that I hope will
serve also as a club and focal meeting place of all Bulgarians
in Bay Area. For example the Greek Church provides classes
in Greek for their children, has a choir, dance group, 
museum, organizes greek cultural festivals and so on.

	The first BULGARIAN FESTIVAL is already a fact in 
San Francisco Bay Area. It will be on August 2nd and there
will be authentic Bulgarian food, stories, folk musik and
dance. Featuring 

	THE ORCHESTRA NESTINARI

	TODOR TRAICHEV & his orkestra (Did you remember 
                         Mariana and Todor Traichevi, 
                         unfortunately they are divorced)

	MARIANA AND MICHAEL ROSMIS

	NADIA KOSTOVA

	THE ZDRAVETS DANCE GROUP

	The proceedings from the festival will be for the
Saints Kirill and Methodios Orthodox Church Bulding Fund.


Information:  (415) 824-7969
	

Radoslav Radev