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Sando Trenchev, 60, shows a bottle of homemade plum rakia brandy in a cellar in his house in the village of Oreshak, western Bulgaria November 23, 2009. Regardless of living standards and social status, there is hardly a Bulgarian family which does not store at least a jar of home-made pickles, personal favourites with late communist dictator Todor Zhivkov and present Prime Minister Boiko Borisov. Picture taken November 23, 2009. To match feature BULGARIA- /WINTER REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA - Tags: AGRICULTURE FOOD SOCIETY)