A Ukrainian woman, dressed in traditional clothes, pictured below, instructs Swedish soccer fans on how to make traditional Ukrainian Vareniks dumplings, at the Euro 2012 fan zone in Kiev.
The dish has been a big hit with visitors to the championships being staged in Eastern Europe.
Supermarkets in Bahrain say products and ingredients for popular European fare are in demand as soccer-mad families support their sides with recipes passed down through the generations.
But that wasn’t the cause of the recent run on milk, as anxious housewives scurried around shops looking for it. After a production error in the Almarai factory, the largest integrated dairy foods company in the world based in Saudi Arabia, a lower volume of milk cartons were sent to the island for two days, forcing regular customers to switch to different brands. Regional manager of Almarai, Mohammed Khonji has reassured GulfWeekly that its milk is back flowing into the kingdom as normal.
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