2024-06-02 09:01:28
Sadly, quick, and all of us so wished his wonderful reflections on the world would by no means finish
Earlier than he left this world, Borislav Zyumbylev left us a e-book. Alas, we did not get to see the sequels he hinted he may launch at some point. This solely e-book of his, which we now have at our disposal, is known as “Golden Ebook of Bulgarian Petty Bourgeois Delicacies”.
It is very important make clear that this isn’t only a cookbook, though it accommodates recipes taken from his mom’s notebooks. Pushed by his epicurean spirit and curiosity, Borko had dug by means of the previous household data, however what he discovered there had impressed him to explain together with his outstanding storytelling expertise far more than itemizing the required merchandise, weights and kitchen manipulations.
In his e-book there’s historical past, folks psychology, ancestral reminiscence, utilized science and normally essentially the most numerous and unsuspected info and details about locations, occasions and other people. Plus humorous self-irony and distinctive manifestations of his distinctive humorousness. Slightly drafty in locations.
He tells, for instance, how years in the past he was hit by a bullet and what accidents this accident induced him. And with restrained pathos he tells us his epicrisis – all of the ribs indifferent from the sternum (breastbone), and so on. After all, anybody who knew him even vaguely knew that he was an exemplary hypochondriac, and solely a diploma in medication didn’t exist, in any other case he had gathered data at an enviable degree.
He describes the disagreeable issues in his physique that occurred on account of the encounter with the tyra, however he does so with the categoricalness of a pathoanatomy, as if analyzing a international physique after a deadly end result. After which all of a sudden, within the subsequent sentence, he concludes what his greatest downside now could be. And what’s this downside, do you assume? He may not placed on a scuba diving go well with. Snorkel solely. It is like he is telling us: Guys, I have been hit by a bullet, so do not count on me to be a deep diver. There are sufficient bursts of this explicit humor of his within the e-book.
And in any other case, this method – together with recipes to explain occasions, now we have encountered with different notable authors earlier. For instance, Alexandre Dumas, whom most individuals affiliate with The Depend of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, wrote a very intriguing e-book entitled The Nice Culinary Dictionary.
By way of the outline of meals habits and eating tradition, the reader is definitely immersed in a curious, sensual and intriguing narrative that continually provokes him to assume. Subsequently, as a lot as Dumas’ e-book is a dictionary, Borko’s is a recipe e-book.
For instance, that is how he opens the subject of fish soup. He calls it in his e-book “archetypal meals for the representatives of the human race”.
Whether or not it is Marseille bouillabaisse, Thai tomyamkum, or Russian ukha, fish soup evokes in folks an affection that’s linked to their genetic reminiscence, he writes. As a result of our ancestors wouldn’t have been capable of fulfill their protein starvation and supply important amino acids to construct sufficient adenosine triphosphate to develop their brains if they’d not discovered to fish for bony fish.
Zyumbylev then makes an informed guess that maybe now we have all learn Max Frisch and subsequently know that man appeared within the Holocene and bony fish 120 million years earlier, on the finish of the Jurassic interval. “Which, due to the lazy translator of Spielberg’s legendary movie, immediately everybody calls Jurassic. And the Bulgarian title ought to be Jurassic Park, as a result of the period is Jurassic, and Jura is a model of malt whiskey from the island of Isla”. he explains.
And as we learn it, we understand that simply from this transient rationalization now we have already discovered far more than we anticipated from a easy introduction to learn how to make fish soup. As a result of earlier than that he nonetheless promised us the recipe for the most effective soup, which is with Danube fish caught close to his hometown of Silistra. And with slightly Danube water, however to not row with the jug from the port, however to take it from the place lengthy sandy hairs kind on the islands, which filter the river to full readability…
When you perceive that this isn’t an bizarre cookbook, however a brief textbook on the creation of the world, the reader already begins to hope that the creator will proceed to deal with him with this surprising and curious info, as a substitute of offering him with the recipe and all the pieces is over.
Borko truly bequeathed us a recipe for the style of life. Sadly, quick, and all of us so wished his wonderful reflections on the world would by no means finish.