Austrian Cherry and Almond Strudel

Jillian Greer is back again and this time she shares her delicious recipe for Austrian Cherry and Almond Strudel. We’ve made this several times and it’s an easy take on a popular European classic. Not just for the holidays, we make this yumminess year round. Thank you Jillian! Ingredients…. 3 sheets of filo pastry 2 Tbsps....

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

January 19, 2015

Watch This: Clue – the Movie

Clue – the movie was a fun movie to watch. I loved seeing all of the familiar characters from the popular game, Clue on the big screen – Mr.Green, Professor Plum, Miss Scarlett, Col.Mustard, Mrs.White, and Mrs.Peacock. The French Maid, Mr. Boddy and the Butler were awesome too! Was it done with the rope in...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

January 14, 2015

Watch This: Certified Copy

We watched Certified Copy last night and the immediately unique and interesting about this film is that the dialogue is in English, Italian and French. The characters move between the languages as real multi-lingual speakers often do. Another unique feature is that this film was created by Iranian writer and director Abbas Kiarostami and he...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

January 12, 2015

Watch This: Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer is the true story of Li Cunxin, a ballet dancer who defected to the United States in 1981 from Maoist China where he was born. We share his journey from his youth in a small village in the Shandong province, to when he is taken away at age eleven from his family to...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

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January 7, 2015

Czech Avant Garde – Photomontage

Today we’ll be looking at Czech Avant Garde – Photomontage. The first and most famous mid-Victorian photomontage (then called combination printing) was “The Two Ways of Life” (1857) by Oscar Rejlander. It was followed shortly thereafter by the images of photographer Henry Peach Robinson such as “Fading Away” . These works actively set out to challenge...

Art and Design, CULTURE

January 5, 2015

Czech Surrealism Illustrations from Lautreamont’s Poesies

The following Czech Surrealism illustrations come to us from Adolf Hoffmeister (1902-1973) from the 1967 Bratislava published book, Lautreamont’s Poesies. Adolf was a poet, novelist, translator and editor as well as a lawyer and politician, but above all a brilliant cartoonist, a great illustrator, author of the original collages, witty writer, poet, playwright, organizer of international exhibitions...

Art and Design, CULTURE

December 31, 2014

Get Your Field Guide to the Czech Psyche

So you went back to the land of your ancestors, reconnected to a past that you knew little about and then made art about it? Exactly! She said… Here’s a bit of her backstory on the Czech psyche. In the fall of 2009, Jessica Seran was invited to Tábor – a small town in the Czech Republic that...

Books, ENTERTAINMENT

December 29, 2014

Tour Our Light and Peaceful Home

It’s been quite a bit of work but we did it. We’ve taken dark and dreary house and gave it a complete make-over. Welcome to our light and peaceful home. From pulling up the nasty shag carpets, to pulling the horrible thick curtains and saggy blinds off the windows. We pulled up and changed toilets, opened and...

TresBohemes

December 24, 2014

Bohemian Christmas Foods & Czech Traditions

For many Czechs, Štědrý den (December 24th) is the most enjoyable day of the Christmas holidays. Today we wanted to share our Bohemian Christmas foods & Czech traditions. It is more significant than the 25th of December which is when most Americans celebrate. The Czech name literally means “Generous Day”, and this is most likely for the...

CULTURE, Holidays

December 17, 2014

Czech Eggnog with Jillian Greer

Jillian Greer is currently on sabbatical working on her new cookbook and when she isn’t creating new recipes, she’s busy enjoying the ranch with her two sons. When we chatted with Jillian Greer, she was happy to share the following with us: This is my mother’s eggnog recipe. I remember standing next to her and making this...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

December 10, 2014

Watch This: War and Peace

Making Leo Tolstoy’s great novel War and Peace into a film must have been a daunting task and undertaking, especially in 1956 when this film was made. Watching it now, in 2015, I can appreciate the massive scope of work and production that went into the grand sets and scenes. The film script had to...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

December 3, 2014

Watch This: Guilty by Suspicion

Guilty by Suspicion. By suspicion only… and yet guilty. Can you imagine? A realistic look at a terrible time for many Americans. This film is about the true happenings of Hollywood during the 1950’s when the Un-American Committee was ruled by McCarthy and going through their anti-communist mania. It is the best film on this...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

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November 26, 2014

Making Vánočka – Czech Sweet Braided Bread

For some reason, the holidays always remind me of home (home being Prague). Maybe it’s because I associate the delicious foods with my grandmother who was always baking at this time of year. Thankfully, Jillian Greer has come to visit and she shared her awesome recipe for making Vánočka, a traditional Czech Sweet Braided Bread from her awesome...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

November 19, 2014

Watch This: The Graduate

Dustin Hoffman became a star playing in The Graduate, His character, Benjamin Braddock, is a 21 year old young man who has just finished college and is back at his parents house in California. Unsure of his future and knowing that he does not want to be like his parents, he spends the film avoiding...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

November 12, 2014

Mach 2 in the Concorde

What is the Concorde? Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde is a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet airliner. It featured a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04, with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. Taking its first flight in 1969, the Concorde entered into commercial service in 1976 and continued flights for 27 years until...

PLACES, Traveling in Style

November 5, 2014

Watch This: Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris is beautiful film opens with a three minute postcard styled montage of Paris, showing the iconic tourist sites filmed with a filter so colorful it almost makes the scenes look like a painting. The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence....

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies