A growing number of gourmet restaurants and foodies see a solution to this conundrum in an unlikely source â duck fat. They consider it a healthy alternative to frying foods in pork fat, beef fat or even butter. Duck fat is high in beneficial unsaturated fats, and its chemical composition is closer to olive oil than to butter, they say. Plus, it's delicious. I love it, said David Bazirgan, executive chef at the Fifth Floor restaurant in San Francisco.
Geography. Lithuania is situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea and borders Latvia on the north, Belarus on the east and south, and Poland and the Kaliningrad region of Russia on the southwest. It is a country of gently rolling hills, many forests, rivers and streams, and lakes.rom the 14th to the 16th century, Poland and Lithuania made up one of medieval Europe's largest empires, stretching from the Black Sea almost to Moscow. The two countries formed a confederation for almost 200 years, and in 1569 they formally united.
He also composed the music for this poem. During that period, Lithuania was part of Czarist Russia. It was first performed in 1905 in Saint Petersburg and in 1918, when Lithuania became independent from Czarist Russia, it became the national anthem of Lithuania. Following Soviet Unionâs occupation of Lithuania in 1940, âTautiÅ¡ka giesmÄâ was banned and people were forbidden to sing it.