Master Candymaker Boyan Minchev was named a Living Human Treasure, the Etar Regional Ethnographic Open Air Museum told BTA. Minchev received his award at a ceremony in Sofia’s Sredets Hall on Friday. The master candymaker represented the Region of Gabrovo in a national competition held under the Living Human Treasures programme.
Minchev is the successor of the Bulgarian confectioners, who in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century began to practice the craft in Gabrovo, after studying it in Romania. In the second half of the 19th century, there were five masters in Gabrovo, and candy-making was considered the most modern and young craft at the time.
Minchev has trained and practiced his craft for many years at the Etar Regional Ethnographic Open Air Museum, and as of Friday is listed on the National Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the museum said.
The Living Human Treasures - Bulgaria, which is part of the Living Human Treasures UNESCO programme, is organized by the Culture Ministry and encourages the bearers of intangible cultural heritage to practice the activities and pass on knowledge and skills to the next generations. The programme is carried out in two stages - regional and national. The activities or skills offered for registration must be from the spheres of manifestation of the intangible cultural heritage, according to the National Register of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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