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| 17 musicians, singers and dancers from 10 different nations: Greece, Spain, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Croatia, India, Fiji, Japan and the US Greetings Friends, This Saturday, I'll be appearing with CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION at the PARAMOUNT THEATER, NOVEMBER 17 at 8PM. Tickets are $15, $20 or $25 and can be purchased through www.theparamount.com or www.ticketmaster.com The concert doubles as the release of our new video and two new CD's recorded live at Meany Hall in June of this year in front of a sold out house of 1,200. Children of the Revolution has been called a "Mediterranean Riverdance" with elements of Gypsy Kings, Sanata the Buena Vista Social Club featuring 17 musicians, singers and dancers from 10 different nations (Greece, Spain, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Croatia, India, Fiji, Japan and the US) will perform with numerous guest artists including Johnny Kalsi of Afro/Celtic Sound System, Reggie Watts of Maktub, Viktoria Titova of the Bolshoi Ballet and Chelsea Bacon, one of the world's foremost static trapeze artists. The Paramount Theater, located at 911 Pine Street in downtown Seattle, seats nearly 3,000 people. Although there are tickets still available buy them now, because it will be a sell out! For those of you who can not attend the concert, but would like to purchase a video or CD's, check out the band website at www.wmrevolution.com All proceeds from the video and the CD's will benefit BABES, Seattle's support group for HIV+ women. Hope to see you all there, John Morovich distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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Zanimljiv tekst o Asircima koji sam preveo na hrvatskom! www.aina.org/articles/asirija.htm Click Here: Asirija i Asirci -Marko marko@croatia.og distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com
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| Take a look at this web site: www.cookalotamus.com and the following www.cookalotamus.com/media_johnsarich_gsharp.html I couldn't down load the article, which appears in this months Long Island Parenting magazine (a free magazine) concerning Sarich, a chef in the Seattle area who has his own TV show (Best of Taste: Flavors of the Pacific Northwest). Sarich speaks in the article about being a first generation Croatian American. His parents are from Dalmatia. He gives a recipe in the article for potato gnocchi. Thanks to my wife for finding this article. John Kraljic distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| http://www.croatianmall.com/valcich/">ValcichPublishing http://www.croatianmall.com/valcich/ "Croatian Cookbook" - A Walk through Croatia - by Dennis Valcich (dvalcich@ihug.com.au) "Hrvatska Kuhinja" - Croatian Cuisine - by Dennis Valcich (dvalcich@ihug.com.au) Congratulations Mr. Valcich ! Please support this book by buying it. I will order, both of them. The best way how to support our cause is by direct support of the people who carry the weight and use their talent and time to bring it to the world audience. Such books should be sold in 10s of thousands of copies, without blinking, and if the world audience recognize the same even more. That is what I call support. I am talking from my own experience. Taping someone's shoulder is not enough. My best, Nenad Bach Editor-in-Chief distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| The Public Television or Chanel 13 i n New York is showing tonight, Sunday November 18, 2001 the Croatian Roots at 10:30 p.m. Katarina Tepesh distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Nenad: Note to your readers from the AFI International Film Festival: The Kodak Vision Award in Cinematography: Darko Suvak, director of photography, 'Skies, Satellites" (Croatia) BRAVO Darko !!! distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Greetings On my trip to Paris and my night out, you can buy the dialogos CD "Terra Adriatica" from both US and UK amazon: US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001NTJX/qid=1005778047/sr=8-1/ref=sr _8_1_1/102-6794175-9559312 UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001NTJX/o/qid=1005778194/sr=8-1/re f=sr_aps_cm_1_1/026-7434138-6138052 A mention on the group at:http://www.hr/darko/etf/et12.html There is also something on the Croatian embassy in Paris (for the French readers, not moi!) website : http://www.amb-croatie.fr/culture/dialogos_amca2001.htm Regards Brian ===== Brian Gallagher distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Dear All, I am happy to share two personal accomplishments TODAY. I worked on Harry Potter ( Warner Brothers/One Voice) as an analyst, reviewer, advisor on Croatian language for Literary & Film projects for the first four books of Harry Potter, during the last year. But today, November 16th, 2001, is the premier of the first film, so it feels good. Also, I participated in the recordings of We Are Family CD and scored (wrote music) for the one hour TV special of "The Making and Meaning of We Are Family." CD is on sale worldwide. Globalvision is still working on DVD that will include the film that is directed by Danny Schechter. www.globalvision.org Charm comes in three and I hope that I will sign another contract today, that is in progress for some time. Keep fingers crossed. Don't ask how I do all of this (that is the most asked question). I don't know either. My family do. Best, Nenad Bach http://www.wearefamilyfoundation.com/version_html.html http://www.wearefamilyfoundation.com WE ARE FAMILY is an expression of concern and a celebration of our common humanity. It is not political. It takes no stands except one: Our world culture needs to hear more voices of tolerance and to insure that prejudice, racism and blind revenge should never become an acceptable action, and should not now be an accepted response. Our country is in pain. Many have lost friends, family, and a part of a city they loved. We know that everyone wants to help, and millions of dollars are being raised for relief and recovery. Yet, individuals are suffering losses that money can never replace. Our society needs relief too. We need inspiration and unifying messages to help heal a stunned and traumatized nation that, in its best moments, has shown the beautiful ways people can help and love each other. It is time for all of us who treasure our most fundamental American ideals to do everything possible to promote tolerance. The obligation and responsibility of patriotism is not just to defend our country from outside enemies but also to ensure our principles are not challenged or compromised from within. Like justice, debate and free expression, diversity and freedom of religion are also values we must defend. We need to hear each other and not demonize each other. WE ARE FAMILY. On Saturday, September 22, 2001, in response to the devastating attack on New York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania, over 150 celebrities came together in unity and strength of purpose to re-record the Sister Sledge classic "We Are Family." The song is a celebration of our common humanity, a theme song to unite our nation and the world. This celebrity version includes performances by Diana Ross, Patti LaBelle, Luther Vandross, Roberta Flack, Ashford & Simpson, Dionne Warwick and many other top singers, actors and sports figures. It was produced by Nile Rodgers and co-executive produced by Tom Silverman for Tommy Boy Music and SumThing Else Musicworks. Spike Lee shot the music video and there will be a one-hour documentary available soon. The WE ARE FAMILY PROJECT DONATES proceeds from the sale of the record to well run, non-profit relief, educational, legal defense and tolerance promoting activism. Funds will be shared by The American Red Cross and the Cantor-Fitzgerald Relief Fund. For more information, contact: kris.chen@tommyboy.com To learn more about the worthwhile organizations below, check out each group's website. Get involved and help spread the message of compassion, caring, and tolerance. American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org Cantor-Fitzgerald Relief Fund http://www.cantorrelief.org The new release is available on CD and can be purchased at CDNOW. You can also purchase the download from our friends at Liquid Audio. Either way, it's a great way to contribute and get a historical recording in return! May May Ali Lamya Almughery Michael Amante Amber Angela Ammons Laurie Anderson Nick Ashford Nenad Bach Jerry Barnes Milton Barnes Windy Barnes Afrika Bambaataa Tony Barowiak Tyson Beckford Gina Belafonte Polly Bergen Big Guess Big Syke Howard Bingham Stephen Bishop Black Child Bless Nelson Botwinick Elton Brand Jackson Browne Be Be Buehl Kim Burrell David Canary Harry Wayne Casey Bryan Chan Jen Chapin Ed Cherney Patricia Cisarano Francesco Clemente Coko Jim Courier Macaulay Culkin Donna D'Cruz E.G. Daily Alia M. Davis Taylor Dayne Gavin Degraw Taye Diggs Carmen Electra Quentin Elias Faith Evans FDNY Roberta Flack Jeffrey Gaines Cynthia Garrett Leif Garrett Siedah Garrett GiGi Gaston Gin Gator Gina Gershon Deborah Gibson Rod Gilbert David Goldschmitt Mac Gollehon Jay Gordon Joel Gray Niki Haris David Hasselhoff Sophie B. Hawkins Catherine Hickland Richard Hilton JD Hinton Lamar Holmes Lemel Humes Nancy Hunt Desiree Jackson Mark Jackson Alexander Jones Annabelle Jones Ann Jones Jamie Jones Martina Jones Mick Jones Jonas Josiah Milla Jovovich KC and the Sunshine Band Scott Kelliner Delion Kennedy Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Angelique Kidjo Eartha Kitt Patti LaBelle Ernie Lake Queen Latifah Kenny Lattimore Hen Lee Spike Lee Leon Lisa Leslie Ananda Lewis Lisa Ling Rebecca Lobo Jimmy Locust Audra Lomax Edith Lutnick Lisa Lyle Maccal Cheb Mami Mario Jesse L. Martin Lorelei McBroom John McEnroe Joey McIntyre Lalisha McLean Akissa A. Mendez Michael J. Miller Mike Miller Stephanie Mills Brian Stokes Mitchell Mathew Modine Chante Moore Raul Morales Ms. Shabazz Min. Benjamin Muhammad Nataraj Alfred Nevarez Noelia NYPD Danny Boy O'Connor Joan Osborne Mae Pang Rosie Perez Richard Perry Bernadette Peters Rich Picciatto Kate Pierson Anita Pointer Bonnie Pointer June Pointer Ruth Pointer Maury Povich Nathan Purdee Peter Rauhofer Rev. Right Time and the First Cousins of Funk Rev. Run Denise Rich Deleon Richards Calvin Richardson Nile Rodgers Felipe Rose Bubble Share Ross Diana Ross Darius Rucker Marcus Schenkenberg Fred Schneider Roxanne Seeman Taja Seville Molly Shannon Sylver Logan Sharp Gary Sheffield Jamie Lynn Sigler Ella Silverman Zoe Silverman Valerie Simpson Bill Sims Jr. Mongo Slade Cathy Sledge Debbie Sledge Joni Sledge Kathy Sledge Kim Sledge Erika Slezak Richard Smallwood Hillary B. Smith Patti Smyth Phoebe Snow Angie Stone KT Sullivan Tony Terry Carl Thomas Fonzi Thorton Nestor Torres Aida Turturro Little Steven Van Zandt Iyanla Van Zant Luther Vandross Tata Vega Gerardo Velez Tom Viscount Vitamin C Dionne Warwick Martha Wash Teresa Weatherspoon Corey Williams Deniece Williams Montel Williams Nick Wiz Norwood Young Rick Yune Malik Yusef distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Dear All, Regardless what Ms. Bastiancic feels, we should send a short note to New York Times and let them know and understand that we DO understand this misrepresentation. Even more, I do expect from our Istrians on the net to do so. Istria is a beautiful part of this planet and within the boarders of Croatia. Personal feelings aside. If Croatia is mentioned in New York Times, it is better for all of us, especially on such a good note. Write to: letters@nytimes.com Nenad Bach p.s. Ms. Bastiancic is a very talented chef and an entrepreneur. Should we make next Croatian (New York) gathering /meeting in her restaurant? A Recipe Kept Warm for 55 Years ROM the commotion in the kitchen, you would have thought it was a wedding day. Pans of eggplant rollatini baked in the oven, turnovers stuffed with salami and mozzarella fried in the pan. Fresh clams were minced, broccoli rape was rinsed. The pears and grapes were already roasted in moscato, and the pignoli cookies were cooling on a sideboard. The chicken hadn't even been started. This was no wedding. This was lunch. Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, the celebrated chef who is a co-owner of five restaurants and the star of her second public television series, "Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen," which has been on the air since January, still makes lunch for her family every Saturday and Sunday. The fact that this was Wednesday didn't stop her; the chance to cook from her latest book, "Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen" (Alfred A. Knopf), which includes the recipes for every dish in the new series, was too hard to resist. Really. While other women choose yoga or meditation to relax, Ms. Bastianich cooks. The prospect of throwing up her hands and ordering in is foreign to her. "Maybe I felt that way once or twice," she said. Once or twice what? A month? A year? "No, once or twice that I can remember," she answered, smiling. "Cooking is good therapy for me." It is also central to her sense of home — the childhood home she lost in Istria, a region in northeastern Italy that was taken over by Yugoslavia after World War II and became Communist. In 1956 her family left for Trieste, where for two years they lived in a refugee camp awaiting visas to America. Ms. Bastianich was 10 at the time and had to leave without saying goodbye to the beloved grandparents who helped raise her. They ran a trattoria and grew most of the food they sold and ate, producing their own olive oil and wine, distilling their own grappa and curing their own meats. That world, no longer home, no longer even Italy, was lost to her forever. Or so she thought. The family moved to Astoria, Queens, to be near a distant relative, and Ms. Bastianich's father found work as a mechanic for Chevrolet; her mother, who had been an elementary school teacher, did piece work for the Evan Picone clothing company. Her daughter cooked the family's dinner each night, a task that kept the memory of her grandmother close. "I picked up the newness in America, and it was wonderful," Ms. Bastianich said, escaping the kitchen to sit in her sunroom. "But I needed to go back so much. This nostalgia I had at 12 years old! I had unfinished business there. My grandmother was the epicenter for me." She entered Hunter College on a scholarship but left after two years to marry Felice Bastianich, a fellow Istrian. At 19, on her honeymoon, she returned to Istria for the long-awaited reunion with her grandmother. "I had eight visits after that," Ms. Bastianich said happily. "She was able to see my two children." The echoes of her truncated childhood still sound through this house. A Tudor built in 1902, it is located in the Douglaston Manor section of Queens and sits right on the bay, a vegetable and herb garden in the yard, a wood- burning bread and pizza oven and rotisserie in the back. The terrace was bare in the November sunlight; Ms. Bastianich had brought her lemon, bay leaf and rosemary trees indoors for the winter, along with huge pots of geraniums. The last of the summer's tomatoes were ripening on a sheet of newspaper on the terra- cotta-tiled dining room floor. "The food of a country is my story," she said. "It is a small story, but people relate so much to it. I want to share that, but also the idea of bringing people and family together. There is a softness to it, I think. People say to me: `You remind me of my mother. You bring back memories.' " The sound of pots banging in the kitchen seemed to distract her momentarily; this idea of family, which for her encompasses the people she works with, is a noisy proposition. Ms. Bastianich's recipe tester, Chris Styler, had taken over preparation of the chicken cacciatore while her assistant, Shelly Burgess, answered the phone and tended to her 4- month- old son. Ms. Burgess is married to Fortunato Nicotra, the chef at Felidia, Ms. Bastianich's first Manhattan restaurant, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in October. Ms. Bastianich's mother, Erminia, who is 80, played with the baby while her companion, Giovanni Bencina, read the paper; they live in the house in a separate apartment. Ms. Bastianich's son-in-law, Corrado Manuali, a lawyer, ran after his 2-year- old son, Lorenzo. His wife, Tanya, Ms. Bastianich's daughter, was in Italy, where she often leads tour groups for a company she owns with her mother. Joseph Bastianich, his mother's partner in Felidia, Becco and Esca in New York, Lidia's Kansas City and Lidia's Pittsburgh, was in Connecticut poised for his wife's delivery of their third child, who arrived later that night. Mixing work and family is second nature by now; Ms. Bastianich's mother always lived with her and watched the children so that she and her husband could work in their restaurants at night. And Ms. Bastianich tapes her television series in her spacious kitchen. It is a house that is lived in," she said. "There's people, food, kids playing. The house is me." Lorenzo barreled through the door. "Nonna Lidia," he called, using the Italian word for grandma, "House!" "Yes, Lorenzo, make a house, go ahead," she answered, as he pulled the cushions from the sofas and propped them up on the floor. "This need of having family all around is very Italian, anyway," she said. "My quest is where can my family and friends fit, what would they enjoy? I want to share with the house." For all the frenzy that surrounds her, Ms. Bastianich, 55, seems to have an inner peace. After 31 years of marriage, she and her husband divorced; the business expansion interested him less than it did his wife. They remain good friends, she says, and she seems no worse for wear. Her skin is baby smooth, her smile is radiant, the flour that marks her pants — she never wore an apron — bothers her not at all. "Nature recharges me," she said, gazing out onto the bay. "I need the water. I'm with people 12 hours a day. Hearing the water rustle against the rocks is just like music." And having had her mother live with her all these years comforts her as well. "That gives me a tremendous amount of security," she said. "I had my first child at 21, my first restaurant at 24." Despite her mother's help, Ms. Bastianich said, she was still conflicted about mixing career with children. She and her husband ran two restaurants in Queens for a decade before opening Felidia. "I was lucky enough to have a young pediatrician," she said, "because the guilt came to me. I told him, `I love what I do, but I have this weight about it.' And he said: `Children basically want their parents to be happy. If you stay home and are grouchy you'll regret it. If you go out and do and be happy, you can bring them along.' So I brought them. But I told my kids, you've got to get an education, you don't want this. We had to have our Mother's Day or Easter at the restaurant before we opened, then they would go home with Grandma, and I would stay and work." Though they obeyed her — Joe received his B.A. from Boston College, Tanya a Ph.D. in art history from Oxford — they came right back. In 1999, when Ms. Bastianich was given the James Beard Award for best chef in New York and Joseph Bastianich with his partner in Babbo, Mario Batali, won the award for best new restaurant in the United States, it was a thrilling moment. "It was a culmination," she said proudly. "A legacy going forward." Mr. Bastianich, who opened Becco, his first restaurant, when he was 25, says that his mother makes a good partner. "When I needed her she was there, and when I didn't she was nowhere to be found," he said. "Her greatest strength is her sensibility in dealing with people." So, there are no big blowouts with the chef? "She's not a chef," he said. "She's a real cook, not a screamer or a control freak. Cooking is who she is, a part of her culture, and how she exhibits emotion and love. It's her language." Preserving that culture, Ms. Bastianich said, was one of the reasons she wrote her new book. "I wanted to capture my grandmother and those memories," she said. " I don't want the children to forget who they are. The Italian-American cuisine has been shunned in recent years as an imposter cuisine. But I think it is venerable. These are people who came to a new country and did their best with what they found." "Still," she went on, "I feel like an octopus; I'm touching different things. I'm that sort of link caught in between here and there." The noise in the kitchen was escalating. Clearly it was time for lunch. "Call Grandma," Ms. Bastianich told Mr. Styler, spotting her outside the kitchen window as she headed back to the stove. He returned promptly. "She wants to know what's the holdup," he said, and Ms. Bastianich smiled, shaking her head. "On the show, we call her the executive executive producer," Mr. Styler said. "She sits in control room and says, `Smile a little more.' " "As the family gathered, Ms. Bastianich boiled the pasta, sautéed garlic and olive oil, even tossed some spaghetti in a pan with butter for Lorenzo, while he sat on the marble counter banging on pots with a spoon, his great-grandmother by his side. She sang, `Bravo, mi amore" in time with the beat. Ms. Bastianich's calm was practically Zenlike; she seemed to hear nothing. Until Ms. Burgess's baby, who had been peaceful all morning, suddenly began to wail. Finally, Ms. Bastianich looked up. "Feed him, that's all," she said. "He wants to eat." distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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