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Happy Easter from our family to yours! 🐣

With love.

Whatever your traditions are — whether you're gathering with family, calling someone far away, or just taking a quiet moment for yourself today — we hope this day brings you warmth, good food, and people you love around the table.

Thank you for being part of this community.

Happy Easter. Stay kind. 🤍

— Food Round The World team

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🍽️ Need EASTER DINNER IDEAS? Here's what a family of 7 cooked for Easter — Just hands, fire, and love 👇

THE FULL MENU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Lon...

🍞 PASKA (Easter Bread)
15 eggs, flour, golden raisins. Hand-kneaded for 10+ minutes. Baked in a wood-fired oven at 570°F. Topped with meringue and hand-grated dark chocolate. 6 hours from dough to masterpiece.

🥩 SMOKED PORK RIBS & SHOULDER
Dry-cured with salt and garlic. Hung on hand-forged hooks in a wooden smokehouse. Smoked 12 hours over hardwood coals. Mahogany bark you can't get from any modern oven.

🥚 RED EASTER EGGS
Dyed using ONLY onion skins collected since autumn + boiling water. Zero chemicals. Rub with oil for a glossy shine. They last weeks without a fridge.

🎨 HAND-PAINTED EGGS
The kids paint each one. Every symbol has meaning — diamonds for harvest, spirals for eternity, stars for light.

🥗 MOUNTAIN SALAD
A mountain of green onions + cucumbers + tomatoes + sunflower oil. First fresh greens after the snow melts.

🥔 HERB POTATOES
Boiled with garden herbs. Made to soak up smoked meat fat. Simple. Perfect.

Plus: meatballs, bread, fruit compote, and one candle lighting the whole table 🕯️

3 days of cooking. 7 people. A tradition alive for centuries.

👉 Watch the full 38-minute film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Lon...

No talking. No music. Just fire, birdsong, and family.

What does YOUR family always cook for Easter? 👇🌍

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🔥 Channel Recommendation

If you love the cozy, slow-living side of our videos, you need to check out HUSKORIA — a beautiful new channel by a friend of mine.

Fresh bread by the fireplace, roast meat with herbs, quiet winter cooking in a modern home — no talking, just pure comfort. Think of it as a warm hug on a cold evening. The channel is just getting started, so your support means the world. Go subscribe and give them some love 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ya8_...

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🔴 Our 24/7 live stream is NOW LIVE — and new episodes will be added regularly to keep it fresh!

Over 100 episodes from the remote mountain village of Samakove in the Carpathians — playing on loop, day and night. Real families. Real life. No voiceover. No music.

Just the sounds you were built for: crackling fire 🔥, birdsong 🐦, flowing streams 💧, children laughing, animals calling, wind through ancient forests — and the unhurried rhythm of a village far from civilization.

Multiple families. All four seasons. Years of footage. One stream that never stops — and keeps growing.

Whether it's 3am and you can't sleep, or you just need the noise to stop — the door is always open. Come home.

▶️ youtube.com/live/Y7O6dmxLxaw

Where are you watching from right now? Drop your flag 🌍

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This evening, a new film will be released about a family living in the mountain village of Samakova, high in the Carpathians.

Before the film goes live, we’ve prepared a long-form article on our website. It includes selected frames from the upcoming video and gently addresses many of the questions viewers often ask in the comments — about daily life, children, work, distance, and what it really means to live this far from everything.

You can read the article here:
👉 mountainquiet.com/a-quiet-life-in-the-carpathian-m…

If this way of life resonates with you, you’re welcome to subscribe to the site’s newsletter. Subscribers receive early notifications about new films and updates.

We’ll also be publishing unique, quieter materials on the site — deeper stories about life in Samakova, as well as stories about Katya and Maria that won’t appear on YouTube.

The website is meant to be a slower space.
If that feels right to you, you’re very welcome there.

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The Vertical Silence: Why a Wall Street Titan Traded Manhattan for the Carpathian Peaks

There’s a new story on our site today.

It’s about a man named Nikola, who traded the roar of Wall Street and the endless pace of Manhattan for a life in the Carpathian Mountains — a life shaped by sun, wood stoves, sheep, and silence. Long before he found calm in those peaks, he felt the weight of a life measured in speed and numbers. Now his days begin with frost on the window, not notifications.

This article gives you a deeper look into his journey — not just what he left behind, but how he rebuilt his world with his own hands, how the seasons became his rhythm, and how a quiet life can teach a different kind of resilience.

You can read the full piece here: mountainquiet.com/the-vertical-silence-why-a-wall-…

If you’ve ever wondered what it means to truly slow down, to step outside of the machine and live by your own clock, this one is for you.

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Want to know what our next video is about before it goes live?

We’ve started publishing articles on our website ahead of each new film. For example, a new video with Maria will be released later today — and the article about it is already available.

If you’d like to discover the story first — and then watch later — you can visit the site here: mountainquiet.com/

On the site, you’ll find a quiet, detailed piece about the upcoming video: what day it follows, what happens, which traditions and routines appear, and why certain moments matter. There are screenshots from the film and written observations that don’t exist inside the video itself. It’s a way to understand the story first — and then, in the evening, simply sit back and watch it unfold without words.

We chose this approach because our films are intentionally silent. Many of you ask about traditions, daily work, and small details you notice on screen. Rather than explaining these things inside the videos, we now place them on the site — calmly, separately, and without rushing the film.

Each new release on the channel will now have:

a dedicated article published before the video

context, details, and background not shown on screen

additional photographs and observations

You’ll also find deeper stories about Maria, the mountain family from Samakova, Katya, and others you’ve met through our documentaries, as well as a growing section of essays about quiet life and living with less noise.

If you’d like to discover the story first — and then watch later — you can visit the site here: mountainquiet.com/

You can also subscribe to the site’s newsletter to be notified when a new article goes live. The videos remain the same. This is simply another way to stay close to the stories.

— Food Around the World

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🎥 A new episode with the family will be released today (07.01.2026) at:

Release time:

• Kyiv — 18:00
• Berlin / Paris / Rome — 17:00
• London — 16:00
• Istanbul — 19:00
• New York — 11:00
• Toronto — 11:00
• Chicago — 10:00
• Denver — 9:00
• Los Angeles — 8:00
• São Paulo — 13:00

Simple Family Meals

Breakfast: Winter Sandwich with Cheese & Ham

Ingredients:
• Toast bread — 4 slices
• Cheese — 4 slices
• Ham — 4 slices
• Pickled cucumber — ½
• Butter — 10 g

Preparation:

Spread butter on the bread.

Add cheese, ham, and sliced cucumber.

Cover with another slice of bread.

Toast covered for 3–4 minutes until warm and golden.

Lunch: Homemade Dumplings

Ingredients:
• Flour — 500 g
• Water — 200 ml
• Egg — 1
• Ground meat — 500 g
• Onion — 1

Preparation:

Knead the dough.

Mix ground meat with finely chopped onion.

Shape the dumplings.

Boil for 4–5 minutes after they float.

Thank you for being with us 🤍

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🕯️🍲 A new episode with Maria — today

Today we’re sharing a new episode with Maria.
A quiet winter day in the mountains — everyday life, simple food, handmade candles, and the slow rhythm of winter.

The episode will be available today.

Release time in different parts of the world:
• 8:00 AM — Los Angeles
• 11:00 AM — New York, Toronto
• 1:00 PM — São Paulo
• 4:00 PM — London
• 5:00 PM — Berlin, Paris, Rome, Warsaw
• 6:00 PM — Kyiv

You’re welcome to watch it together with us as it’s released.

🥔🍲 Recipes from today’s episode

In this episode, Maria prepares simple winter food — the kind that has long been part of everyday life in the mountains.

Potato Pancakes with Dried Forest Mushrooms

Ingredients:
• Potatoes
• Dried porcini mushrooms
• Onion
• Egg
• Flour
• Salt and black pepper
• Oil for frying

The mushrooms are soaked, chopped, lightly fried with onion, and mixed into the potato batter. The pancakes are fried slowly until golden.

Thick Bean Soup with Smoked Meat

Ingredients:
• Dried beans
• Smoked meat or ribs
• Potatoes
• Onion
• Carrot
• Garlic
• Bay leaf
• Black peppercorns
• Salt

The beans are soaked overnight and cooked slowly with smoked meat. Vegetables are added gradually, allowing the soup to become thick and warming.

These are not festive dishes, but everyday food — meant to nourish, to warm, and to last through winter.

We’ll be glad if you watch the new episode together with us and share your thoughts after it’s published.

3 months ago | [YT] | 3,431

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🎄 Happy New Year from Food Around the World 🤍

As we say goodbye to this year, we want to thank every one of you for being with us — for watching, commenting, and supporting our channel all over the world.

From our entire team, and from all the families and people whose lives we share on this channel — we wish you a peaceful, warm, and kind New Year.

Our New Year episode with Svitlana and Dmytro’s family is now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYeyM...

Below, by your request, we’re sharing the New Year table of Svitlana and Dmytro’s family — simple, honest dishes they prepare every year at home.

NEW YEAR TABLE — SVITLANA & DMYTRO’S FAMILY

Olivier Salad (Classic Family Style)

Ingredients:

* Potatoes — 5–6 medium
* Carrots — 2
* Eggs — 5
* Boiled sausage or cooked chicken — 350–400 g
* Pickles — 3–4
* Canned green peas — 1 can
* Mayonnaise — to taste
* Salt — a pinch

Preparation:

1. Boil potatoes and carrots in their skins, cool, peel.
2. Boil eggs hard, cool.
3. Cut all ingredients into small, even cubes — this is important for texture.
4. Squeeze excess liquid from pickles.
5. Add peas, salt lightly.
6. Mix with mayonnaise — enough to make it juicy, but not heavy.

📌 Family tip:
Olivier always rests in the fridge for at least 2 hours so the flavors come together.

Herring “Under a Fur Coat” (Layered Beet Salad)

Ingredients:

* Herring fillet — 2
* Potatoes — 4–5
* Carrots — 2
* Beets — 2–3
* Eggs — 4
* Onion — 1 small
* Mayonnaise — to taste
* Salt

Preparation:

1. Boil or bake all vegetables, cool completely.
2. Dice herring finely.
3. Chop onion very small (optional: rinse with hot water).
4. Layer in this order:
* Potatoes → mayonnaise
* Herring + onion
* Carrots → mayonnaise
* Eggs
* Beets → generous layer of mayonnaise
5. Let rest overnight in the fridge.

📌 Carpathian style:
Beets are grated not too fine — the salad should have texture.

Homemade Caesar Salad (Simple, Family-Friendly)

Ingredients:

* Chicken breast — 2
* Iceberg or romaine lettuce
* Cherry tomatoes
* Hard cheese (Parmesan or similar)
* White bread — for croutons
* Garlic — 1 clove
* Oil (olive or sunflower)

Sauce:

* Mayonnaise or yogurt — 3–4 tbsp
* Garlic — ½ clove
* Lemon juice
* Salt

Preparation:

1. Fry or bake chicken until golden.
2. Cut bread into cubes, toast with garlic.
3. Tear lettuce by hand.
4. Mix everything just before serving to keep it crisp.
5. Add sauce and cheese.

📌 Family version:
No anchovies — mild and kid-friendly.

Smoked Chicken Thighs

Ingredients:

* Chicken thighs — 2–2.5 kg
* Salt
* Paprika
* Black pepper
* Garlic
* Mustard (optional)

Preparation:

1. Marinate at least 4–6 hours, preferably overnight.
2. Smoke using fruit wood (apple wood).
3. Medium heat, 1–1.5 hours.

📌 Carpathian rule:
The smoke aroma is the main ingredient.

Country-Style Potatoes (Smoked or Baked)

Ingredients:

* Potatoes — 2–3 kg
* Oil
* Salt
* Paprika
* Garlic
* Rosemary or thyme

Preparation:

1. Cut potatoes into large wedges.
2. Mix with oil and spices.
3. Bake or smoke together with meat.

📌 Village principle:
Simple. Filling. Plenty.

Thank you for welcoming us into your homes and hearts this year. Stay with us — more stories, food, and real life are ahead.

🤍Food Around the World

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