: Cheese spread with fresh bread followed by traditional Czech potato soup with wild forest mushrooms.

In Czech culture, it is common for guests to bring a small gift like a bottle of Slivovice (plum brandy) or a homemade cake (Bábovka). Part 2: The Menu (The art of the roast, sausages, and traditional sides)? Part 3: Drink Pairing

Pavel is sweating through his linen shirt before the first guest arrives. He is setting out the utopenci —"drowned men," which are pickled sausages floating ominously in a mason jar of oil, onions, and chili peppers. In the heat, the oil has become alarmingly thin. The sausages bob like pale, guilty fingers.

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