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Rakia

ракия

grape or plum brandy sipped with shopska salad

Bulgaria Wine & spirit

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Fruit brandy distilled from plums, grapes or apricots; Bulgarian villages still run communal stills each autumn.

Frequently asked questions

What is Rakia?

Rakia is a wine & spirit from Bulgaria: grape or plum brandy sipped with shopska salad. Fruit brandy distilled from plums, grapes or apricots; Bulgarian villages still run communal stills each autumn.

Made with

grapesfruit

Cooked

distilled

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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