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Macedonian chef Ljupco Gievski in front of the cauldron of beans (Photo: Boro Grdanoski, Vest)

Macedonian beans set world record

If you like beans, Macedonia is the place to be. The small village of Sarchievo, with only four houses and nine inhabitants, last week welcomed ten thousand people who gathered to see the new Guinness world champion cooking and preparing beans, the most popular national dish in the small Balkan country.

In a huge cauldron holding 2,600 liters of water some 400kg of beans, 91kg of bacon, 70 litres of oil, 40kg of onion, 9kg of salt, 3.6kg of red peppers, 1.5kg of pepper and a hundred tuf...

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Macedonian chef Ljupco Gievski in front of the cauldron of beans (Photo: Boro Grdanoski, Vest)

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