The dish is made from tomatoes, cucumbers, onion/scallions, raw or roasted peppers, and sirene, a white brined cheese similar to feta.[8][9] The vegetables are usually diced and salted, followed by a light dressing of sunflower oil (or olive oil, which is less authentic),[10] which is occasionally complemented by vinegar. The addition of vinegar contributes, however, to the sour flavour that the tomatoes impart. In restaurants, the dressings are provided separately. Lastly, the vegetables are covered in a thick layer of grated or diced sirene cheese. This salad is often consumed as an appetizer with rakia.
According to food anthropologist Rayna Gavrilova, the dish is commonly accompanied by a shot of apricot or other fruit brandy.[4]
Background and historyedit
Tomatoes appeared in Southeastern Europe in the mid-1800s.[4]
In the post-war socialist era, Balkantourist focused on marketing Bulgaria's Black Sea coast as a tourist destination for Bulgarians and for western tourists as a way of showcasing the socialist "good life".[11] This included reinventing and remarketing regional dishes to identify them as Bulgarian rather than simply Eastern European.[11] The Shopska salad is a variation on a Greek salad[11]: 54 of cucumbers, tomatoes, and feta; Balkantourist in 1956 named their version Shopska salad.[11][12] The salad's colors, which mimic those of the Bulgarian flag, were a happy coincidence that was seen as a positive for evoking a national sentiment.[11][13][14]
Despite the fact that the salad's name comes from the westernmost Bulgarian region called Shopluk, it first appeared at the Black Sea coast, in a resort near Varna, called Druzhba in the restaurant "Chernomorets".[15][16] It can be found in one of the first state-approved cookbooks from 1956 (Sbornik recepti 1956, vol. 1, p. 50).[17][18] The development and popularization of the salad is attributed to a leader in Bulgarian tourism Petar Doychev (1924-2019).[19]
The dish was initially served in Bulgaria only in the hotels of Balkantourist.[18] It is the only survivor of five or six recipes similarly created for and marketed by the tourism industry.[18] It became an emblem of Bulgarian tourism.[20] It was approved as a national culinary symbol during the 1970s and 1980s.[21] In 2014 Shopska salad was Bulgaria's most recognizable dish in Europe. It was the most popular recipe in a European Parliament initiative called A Taste of Europe.[22]
Origin disputeedit
According to the Bulgarian edition of Deutsche Welle, the Balkantourist recipe spread from Bulgaria to the cuisine of neighboring countries.[23]Deutsche Welle noted a restaurant in Croatia claimed the salad as a Croatian national dish.[23] According to Radio Bulgaria and the Sofia News Agency, Serbian newspaper Politika in the 2000s claimed the salad as Serbian rather than Bulgarian, Macedonian or Czech.[24][25] Although the salad was promoted on the Black Sea coast, because its name refers to the area of Shopluk -- which is divided among Bulgaria, Serbia and North Macedonia -- after the breakup of Yugoslavia chefs in those areas began to contest the Bulgarian origin of the salad.[citation needed]
^Per Petar Doychev, at that time he and his colleagues were assembled in the restaurant "Chernomorets" by the leadership of the resort and it was said: "Think about something new, we can not offer only several salads to the guests." The chefs brought different products and began to offer variants for a new salad - fresh vegetables: cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, onions, parsley, chopped cheese, etc. But it turned out that the offer was the so-called "Thracian salad". It was needed some other variation. The chefs suggested: "First, we will make the peppers baked! Secondly, the cheese will be grated, not chopped." Anything else? - asked the leadership. Everyone was silent. And I saw a hot pepper on the table, and as I was sitting, I picked it up and put it in the grated cheese, in the middle of the project of the new salad, and said: "Here, let the Shopi in Sofia, rejoice!" And the cooks clapped their hands and said, "Come on, let's it be called a Shopska salad!" So I became its godfather. СУ „Св. Климент Охридски”, „Антропология на Храненето”, Бистра Стоименова, „Шопска ли е шопската салата–или за флуидността на балканската кухня“, София, 2017.
^Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, 3rd ed, 2015, ISBN978-1-4422-4179-4, p. 451
^The original recipe for the Salad was invented and established in 1954-55 in the restaurant "Chernomorets" in the resort "St. St. Constantine and Helena" ("Druzhba" 1957 - 1992). Шопската салата била "изобретена" от "Балкантурист" през 1955 г., твърди експерт. В-к Дневник онлайн, 30 дек. 2018 г. 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
^ abcGavrilova, Rayna (2005-01-01). "Golden fruits from the orchards". Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Diversity and Dialogue. Council of Europe. pp. 100–102. ISBN978-92-871-5744-7.
^Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, Ken Albala, ABC-CLIO, 2011 2023-05-12 at the Wayback Machine, ISBN0313376263, p. 67.
^Mangia Bene! New American Family Cookbooks, Kate DeVivo, Capital Books, 2002, ISBN1892123851, p. 170. 2023-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
^Abel Polese, Oleksandra Seliverstova, Emilia Pawlusz, Jeremy Morris as ed., Informal Nationalism After Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018; ISBN1838608745, p .156.
^"Simple Treasures in Bulgaria, Martin Miller-Yianni, Martin Miller-Yianni, 2008, p. 11". from the original on 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
^. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
^Zhang, Jenny. "Shopska Salad: A Bulgarian Necessity". Organically Blissful. from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
^ abcdeNeuburger, Mary (2017-11-01). "Dining in Utopia: A Taste of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast under Socialism". Gastronomica. 17 (4): 48–60. doi:10.1525/gfc.2017.17.4.48. ISSN 1529-3262.
^Дечев, Стефан. Българска, но не точно шопска. За един от кулинарните символи, Български фолклор, год. ХХХVІ, 2010, кн. 1, с. 130 – 131, 133, 136.
^Maria Angelova, "Shopska: The Bulgarian Salad Invented in the Communist Era"; Culture Trip 2020-08-12 at the Wayback Machine.
^Per Petar Doychev, at that time he and his colleagues were assembled in the restaurant "Chernomorets" by the leadership of the resort and it was said: "Think about something new, we can not offer only several salads to the guests." The chefs brought different products and began to offer variants for a new salad - fresh vegetables: cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, onions, parsley, chopped cheese, etc. But it turned out that the offer was the so-called "Thracian salad". It was needed some other variation. The chefs suggested: "First, we will make the peppers baked! Secondly, the cheese will be grated, not chopped." Anything else? - asked the leadership. Everyone was silent. And I saw a hot pepper on the table, and as I was sitting, I picked it up and put it in the grated cheese, in the middle of the project of the new salad, and said: "Here, let the Shopi in Sofia, rejoice!" And the cooks clapped their hands and said, "Come on, let's it be called a Shopska salad!" So I became its godfather. СУ „Св. Климент Охридски”, „Антропология на Храненето”, Бистра Стоименова, „Шопска ли е шопската салата–или за флуидността на балканската кухня“, София, 2017.
^The original recipe for the Salad was invented and established in 1954-55 in the restaurant "Chernomorets" in the resort "St. St. Constantine and Helena" ("Druzhba" 1957 - 1992). Шопската салата била "изобретена" от "Балкантурист" през 1955 г., твърди експерт. В-к Дневник онлайн, 30 дек. 2018 г. 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
^Klaus Roth, Ulf Brunnbauer as ed., Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, vol. 2. Ethnologia Balkanica; Lit Verlag, 2009, ISBN3643101074, p. 26.
^ abcThat Salad was created by professional chefs from "Balkanturist" in 1956 at the restaurant "Chernomorets" in the then resort "Druzhba", now "Saint Konstantin and Elena" near Varna, Bulgaria. For the first time, the salad recipe appeared in 1956 in a "Book of the hostess" of P. Cholcheva and Al.Ruseva and it contained all the components of today Shopska except the cheese. In the following years, there were undergoing series of modifications to the recipe - in 1970 in the book "Recipe for cooking and confectionery" were given four options for Shopska salad - with onion and cheese; without onion and cheese; with roasted peppers and cheese; not sweet, but with chili pepper and cheese. In the early 1970s, roasted peppers and grated cheese were imposed as a mandatory component. Initially, the salad was served only in restaurants of "Balkanturist" and later it became popular in the home kitchens in the country. It became a national culinary symbol in Bulgaria during the 1970s and 1980s. For more see: Albena Shkodrova, Socialist gourmet, Janet 45, Sofia, 2014, ISBN9786191860906, pp. 260-261.
^He is known as the creator of the technology of the famous brand "Shopska salad".... For more see: The doyen of Bulgarian tourism, who invented the Shopska salad, died. Newspaper 24 часа 07.08.2019 г. 2020-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
^Klaus Roth, Ulf Brunnbauer as ed., Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, Part 2; Lit, 2009; ISBN3643101074, p . 26.
^Шкодрова, Албена: Соц гурме. Куриозната история на кухнята в НРБ, София, изд. Жанет 45, 2014 г., с.260.
^"Europost, Weekly for politics, business and culture, 23 May 2014, Shopska salad wins European vote". from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
^ abEngelhardt, Karla (1 December 2015). "How "Balkantourist" came up with the Shop salad". Deutsche Welle (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2024-04-20.
^"Serbian Publication: Shopska Salad Is Not Bulgarian". Sofia News Agency. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
^Harizanova, Tanya (7 October 2009). "Shop salad - Balkan disputes and tastes". Radio Bulgaria (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2024-04-20.
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Shopska salad Bulgarian Macedonian and Serbian Shopska salata Croatian Sopska salata Romanian Salata bulgărească Czech Sopsky salat Albanian Sallate Fshati Hungarian Sopszka salata Greek Salata sopska is a cold salad popular throughout Southeastern Europe 4 5 6 It is Bulgaria s most famous salad and national dish 7 Shopska saladShopska salad as served in BulgariaAlternative namesBulgarian salad Letna salata Summer salad Village saladTypeSaladPlace of originBulgaria Bulgarian Black Sea Coast Druzhba resort Chernomorets restaurant 1 2 3 Main ingredientsTomatoes cucumbers onions peppers sirene Media Shopska salad Ingredients for Shopska salad One of the first Balkantourist hotels in the Black Sea resort where the salad was invented early 1950s Contents 1 Ingredients and serving 2 Background and history 2 1 Origin dispute 3 Similar dishes in other cuisines 4 ReferencesIngredients and serving editThe dish is made from tomatoes cucumbers onion scallions raw or roasted peppers and sirene a white brined cheese similar to feta 8 9 The vegetables are usually diced and salted followed by a light dressing of sunflower oil or olive oil which is less authentic 10 which is occasionally complemented by vinegar The addition of vinegar contributes however to the sour flavour that the tomatoes impart In restaurants the dressings are provided separately Lastly the vegetables are covered in a thick layer of grated or diced sirene cheese This salad is often consumed as an appetizer with rakia According to food anthropologist Rayna Gavrilova the dish is commonly accompanied by a shot of apricot or other fruit brandy 4 Background and history editTomatoes appeared in Southeastern Europe in the mid 1800s 4 In the post war socialist era Balkantourist focused on marketing Bulgaria s Black Sea coast as a tourist destination for Bulgarians and for western tourists as a way of showcasing the socialist good life 11 This included reinventing and remarketing regional dishes to identify them as Bulgarian rather than simply Eastern European 11 The Shopska salad is a variation on a Greek salad 11 54 of cucumbers tomatoes and feta Balkantourist in 1956 named their version Shopska salad 11 12 The salad s colors which mimic those of the Bulgarian flag were a happy coincidence that was seen as a positive for evoking a national sentiment 11 13 14 Despite the fact that the salad s name comes from the westernmost Bulgarian region called Shopluk it first appeared at the Black Sea coast in a resort near Varna called Druzhba in the restaurant Chernomorets 15 16 It can be found in one of the first state approved cookbooks from 1956 Sbornik recepti 1956 vol 1 p 50 17 18 The development and popularization of the salad is attributed to a leader in Bulgarian tourism Petar Doychev 1924 2019 19 The dish was initially served in Bulgaria only in the hotels of Balkantourist 18 It is the only survivor of five or six recipes similarly created for and marketed by the tourism industry 18 It became an emblem of Bulgarian tourism 20 It was approved as a national culinary symbol during the 1970s and 1980s 21 In 2014 Shopska salad was Bulgaria s most recognizable dish in Europe It was the most popular recipe in a European Parliament initiative called A Taste of Europe 22 Origin dispute edit According to the Bulgarian edition of Deutsche Welle the Balkantourist recipe spread from Bulgaria to the cuisine of neighboring countries 23 Deutsche Welle noted a restaurant in Croatia claimed the salad as a Croatian national dish 23 According to Radio Bulgaria and the Sofia News Agency Serbian newspaper Politika in the 2000s claimed the salad as Serbian rather than Bulgarian Macedonian or Czech 24 25 Although the salad was promoted on the Black Sea coast because its name refers to the area of Shopluk which is divided among Bulgaria Serbia and North Macedonia after the breakup of Yugoslavia chefs in those areas began to contest the Bulgarian origin of the salad citation needed Bulgaria requested protected geographical indication from the European Union Serbia objected 13 Similar dishes in other cuisines edit nbsp Food portal Afghan salad Arab salad Coban salatasi Greek salad Israeli salad Kachumbari Kachumber Pico de gallo Serbian salad Shirazi saladReferences edit Per Petar Doychev at that time he and his colleagues were assembled in the restaurant Chernomorets by the leadership of the resort and it was said Think about something new we can not offer only several salads to the guests The chefs brought different products and began to offer variants for a new salad fresh vegetables cucumber tomatoes peppers onions parsley chopped cheese etc But it turned out that the offer was the so called Thracian salad It was needed some other variation The chefs suggested First we will make the peppers baked Secondly the cheese will be grated not chopped Anything else asked the leadership Everyone was silent And I saw a hot pepper on the table and as I was sitting I picked it up and put it in the grated cheese in the middle of the project of the new salad and said Here let the Shopi in Sofia rejoice And the cooks clapped their hands and said Come on let s it be called a Shopska salad So I became its godfather SU Sv Kliment Ohridski Antropologiya na Hraneneto Bistra Stoimenova Shopska li e shopskata salata ili za fluidnostta na balkanskata kuhnya Sofiya 2017 Raymond Detrez Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria 3rd ed 2015 ISBN 978 1 4422 4179 4 p 451 The original recipe for the Salad was invented and established in 1954 55 in the restaurant Chernomorets in the resort St St Constantine and Helena Druzhba 1957 1992 Shopskata salata bila izobretena ot Balkanturist prez 1955 g tvrdi ekspert V k Dnevnik onlajn 30 dek 2018 g Archived 2019 02 02 at the Wayback Machine a b c Gavrilova Rayna 2005 01 01 Golden fruits from the orchards Culinary Cultures of Europe Identity Diversity and Dialogue Council of Europe pp 100 102 ISBN 978 92 871 5744 7 Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Ken Albala ABC CLIO 2011 Archived 2023 05 12 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 0313376263 p 67 Mangia Bene New American Family Cookbooks Kate DeVivo Capital Books 2002 ISBN 1892123851 p 170 Archived 2023 05 12 at the Wayback Machine Abel Polese Oleksandra Seliverstova Emilia Pawlusz Jeremy Morris as ed Informal Nationalism After Communism The Everyday Construction of Post Socialist Identities Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 ISBN 1838608745 p 156 Simple Treasures in Bulgaria Martin Miller Yianni Martin Miller Yianni 2008 p 11 Archived from the original on 2023 05 12 Retrieved 2023 03 16 Balkan Cuisine Shopska Salad Archived from the original on October 15 2012 Retrieved November 21 2012 Zhang Jenny Shopska Salad A Bulgarian Necessity Organically Blissful Archived from the original on 20 December 2016 Retrieved 18 December 2016 a b c d e Neuburger Mary 2017 11 01 Dining in Utopia A Taste of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast under Socialism Gastronomica 17 4 48 60 doi 10 1525 gfc 2017 17 4 48 ISSN 1529 3262 Dechev Stefan Blgarska no ne tochno shopska Za edin ot kulinarnite simvoli Blgarski folklor god HHHVI 2010 kn 1 s 130 131 133 136 a b Detrez Raymond 2014 12 18 Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria in German Rowman amp Littlefield ISBN 978 1 4422 4180 0 Maria Angelova Shopska The Bulgarian Salad Invented in the Communist Era Culture Trip Archived 2020 08 12 at the Wayback Machine Per Petar Doychev at that time he and his colleagues were assembled in the restaurant Chernomorets by the leadership of the resort and it was said Think about something new we can not offer only several salads to the guests The chefs brought different products and began to offer variants for a new salad fresh vegetables cucumber tomatoes peppers onions parsley chopped cheese etc But it turned out that the offer was the so called Thracian salad It was needed some other variation The chefs suggested First we will make the peppers baked Secondly the cheese will be grated not chopped Anything else asked the leadership Everyone was silent And I saw a hot pepper on the table and as I was sitting I picked it up and put it in the grated cheese in the middle of the project of the new salad and said Here let the Shopi in Sofia rejoice And the cooks clapped their hands and said Come on let s it be called a Shopska salad So I became its godfather SU Sv Kliment Ohridski Antropologiya na Hraneneto Bistra Stoimenova Shopska li e shopskata salata ili za fluidnostta na balkanskata kuhnya Sofiya 2017 The original recipe for the Salad was invented and established in 1954 55 in the restaurant Chernomorets in the resort St St Constantine and Helena Druzhba 1957 1992 Shopskata salata bila izobretena ot Balkanturist prez 1955 g tvrdi ekspert V k Dnevnik onlajn 30 dek 2018 g Archived 2019 02 02 at the Wayback Machine Klaus Roth Ulf Brunnbauer as ed Region Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe vol 2 Ethnologia Balkanica Lit Verlag 2009 ISBN 3643101074 p 26 a b c That Salad was created by professional chefs from Balkanturist in 1956 at the restaurant Chernomorets in the then resort Druzhba now Saint Konstantin and Elena near Varna Bulgaria For the first time the salad recipe appeared in 1956 in a Book of the hostess of P Cholcheva and Al Ruseva and it contained all the components of today Shopska except the cheese In the following years there were undergoing series of modifications to the recipe in 1970 in the book Recipe for cooking and confectionery were given four options for Shopska salad with onion and cheese without onion and cheese with roasted peppers and cheese not sweet but with chili pepper and cheese In the early 1970s roasted peppers and grated cheese were imposed as a mandatory component Initially the salad was served only in restaurants of Balkanturist and later it became popular in the home kitchens in the country It became a national culinary symbol in Bulgaria during the 1970s and 1980s For more see Albena Shkodrova Socialist gourmet Janet 45 Sofia 2014 ISBN 9786191860906 pp 260 261 He is known as the creator of the technology of the famous brand Shopska salad For more see The doyen of Bulgarian tourism who invented the Shopska salad died Newspaper 24 chasa 07 08 2019 g Archived 2020 10 03 at the Wayback Machine Klaus Roth Ulf Brunnbauer as ed Region Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe Part 2 Lit 2009 ISBN 3643101074 p 26 Shkodrova Albena Soc gurme Kurioznata istoriya na kuhnyata v NRB Sofiya izd Zhanet 45 2014 g s 260 Europost Weekly for politics business and culture 23 May 2014 Shopska salad wins European vote Archived from the original on 27 January 2018 Retrieved 6 May 2015 a b Engelhardt Karla 1 December 2015 How Balkantourist came up with the Shop salad Deutsche Welle in Bulgarian Retrieved 2024 04 20 Serbian Publication Shopska Salad Is Not Bulgarian Sofia News Agency 11 August 2009 Retrieved 2024 04 20 Harizanova Tanya 7 October 2009 Shop salad Balkan disputes and tastes Radio Bulgaria in Bulgarian 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