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What exactly is this
site about?
How did this
site appear in the first place?
How many locations do you have?
How up-to-date is the information
here?
What's the big deal about Bulgarian
food?
How about Bulgarian
wine?
I know about a Bulgarian restaurant
that is not listed here.
I own a Bulgarian store that you
don't have listed here.
If your service is free for users and
owners, how do you make money?
I want to advertise on your site, how
do I do this?
What is rakia?
What exactly is the
Find BG Food site about?
The Find BG Food website is
Your Local Guide to Bulgarian Food. It
is the leading online source of information
about Bulgarian food, recipes, restaurants
and stores. The site also includes a
comprehensive Bulgarian folklore calendar,
information about Bulgarian namedays and an
unique nameday reminder service. We also
feature an online market place for Bulgarian
cookbooks and other related items.
Here, you can find Bulgarian restaurants, Bulgarian
stores and Bulgarian wines anywhere
in the world, as well as, well you guessed
it, the famous rakia.
Find BG Food Story
This story is about two
friends from high-school, Ivaylo and Stefan,
and their love for Bulgarian food. They both
grew up in Bulgaria, where the word food
and the words organic food meant the
same thing. They both liked cooking classic
Bulgarian meals and of course loved eating
them too.
On one of his trips abroad, Ivaylo
discovered with great dissatisfaction what a
non-organic food was. He was very surprised
to find out that food can be prepared with
chemically altered ingredients and
that even
basic foods, such as bread, are made with
artificial fillers and additives. He was
puzzled as to why people would want to buy
something that is not natural when they can
have the same food in its natural form.
Soon, he realized that it was much cheaper
to produce the non-organic, altered foods
and hence, it cost less to buy it.
Being used to home grown, hence organic,
Bulgarian food Ivaylo had a hard time finding
the same kinds of food he had taken for
granted for many years. It took time and in
many cases, a mere chance, for him to
discover a few restaurants that serve
Bulgarian food prepared with natural
ingredients where he could enjoy his home
country cuisine in its best form.
As years passed by the list of Bulgarian
restaurants that Ivaylo had visited kept
growing. He also kept records of the places
he hadn't been to yet, just in case he goes
there one day with friends. As to eating
organic foods only outside the Bulgarian
restaurants? Well, he knew about several
stores that sold Bulgarian produce and he
would often buy food from there.
He also went to the local farmers markets to
buy fresh produce. In other words he was
doing his best to eat the same quality of
food that he had grown up with.
At the same time Stefan, or Stefano as the
media knows him, was getting better at
preparing all kinds of meals - with
Bulgarian still being his favorite ones. But
since it is not always fun to prepare all
the Bulgarian food you want to eat yourself,
Stefan wanted to find a place where he can
enjoy a mixed grill, Bulgarian style, with a
pitcher of ice cold Kamenitza, as often as
he'd like.
And here's where all of this came together.
Ivaylo and Stefan, sat down one day, chopped
some Shopska salad, poured some rakia and
realized that they have something that many
other people can use as well - they had
information about how to find Bulgarian
food. This is how this handy online guide to
your local Bulgarian food, stores and wine
came into existence.
The information you will find
here is available for free to anyone. If
you are a
Bulgarian wine connoisseur or if
you are searching for the nearest place
to enjoy a meal with a sip of the unique
tasting rakia
then this site will help you find what
you are looking for. If you are the
owner of a Bulgarian restaurant or a
Bulgarian produce store and want more
people to hear about your place we can
help you spread the
word.
So, to summarize - looking for Bulgarian
food is the same as looking for organic and
healthy food. Let us help you in finding it.
Use our quick locator
to find the nearest source of healthy
nutrition and enjoy it the best you can.
How many locations do you
know about?
Currently, our database includes over 1000 locations
throughout the world - including restaurants,
food & produce stores, and wine & liquor
stores.
How up-to-date is the information
here?
We try our best to keep our database
updated. You can easily see when something
was last updated - there is a date stamp on
each restaurant or store details page.
What's the big deal about Bulgarian
food?
 Besides the fact that Bulgarian food is
generally a synonym for organic food,
Bulgarian cuisine has grown out of the wealth of
local and foreign culinary traditions. As
with everything else, Bulgarians have managed
to combine in a unique way several different
styles of cooking, resulting in a blend with
its own distinct features, originality and
exceptional variety which we simply call
Bulgarian food.
How about Bulgarian
wine?
It is a universal truth that the Bulgarian
wines are one of the best wines in the
world. They are produced following often
unique technologies, many of them with
histories dating back to the ancient Thracians
times. Bulgaria has the almost perfect
conditions for growing best quality grapes,
hence wines. Its warm Mediterranean climate,
combined with hilly terrains and good
quality soils contribute for the country to
be the second largest exporter of bottled
wine in the world, second only to France. We
want to mention, just for comparison, that
it has the same area of California, planted
with Cabernet Sauvignon, times four.
I know about a Bulgarian restaurant
that is not listed here.
Perfect! Let us know
about it. It will benefit our visitors
and your friends who also enjoy Bulgarian
food.
I own a Bulgarian store that
is not listed here.
Perfect! Let us know
about it. It will benefit our visitors.
Well, it will benefit you too. Again, our
service is free to everyone, including store
owners.
If your service is free for users and
owners, how do you make money?
 Making money is not our goal. We want to
spread the word about good wholesome
Bulgarian food. Of course, there are some
costs associated with keeping this website
operational. This is why you see ads on some
of the pages.
I want to
advertise on your site, how
do I do this?
See our
offer. Advertising on Find BG Food
website is easy to setup, has a FREE trial
period and the best of all - you will
benefit from it - guaranteed or your money
back!
What is rakia?
In case you haven't tried it yet, rakia is
hard liquor from the brandy family. It is
made by distillation of fermented grapes,
plums, or any other mixed fruits and is the
signature drink of Bulgaria. Its alcohol
content varies from 40% for the commercially
sold liquor, to 70-80% of pure firewater for
the home-produced rakia.
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