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Slovenian cuisine offers more variety and better quality than Croatian fare. Slovenes brag
that their cuisine melds the best of Italian and German cooking—but they also embrace
otherinternationalinfluences,especiallyFrench.LikeCroatianfood,Sloveniancuisinealso
features some pan-Balkan elements: The savory phyllo-dough pastry
burek
is the favorite
fast food here, and when Slovenes host a backyard barbecue, they grill up
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on seemingly every corner. Hungarian food simmers in the northeast corner of the coun-
try (where many Magyars reside). And in most of the country, traditional Slovenian food
has a distinctly Germanic vibe—including the “four S's”: sausages, schnitzels, strudels, and
sauerkraut.
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