In Herzegovina, winter is not winter if there is no collard greens and smoked meat.
It is a cheese made from sheep, cow or goat milk, which matures in the sacks made of sheep skin. It is an ingenious system for storage and transport of a perishable food product, and a way not to waste any part of the slaughtered animal.
The word “pršut” has a clear Latin origin, made of pro, meaning “before” and “exsuctus” meaning “dried out.”
The story of Livno cheese is perhaps one of the most beautiful stories related to a product.
If a product becomes a symbol of a place, it is because it carries the colors, tastes, sounds and history of the place. It is the sound that is the major characteristic of squeaking chees – a cheese that “squeaks”, whose name comes from the onomatopoeic verb “to squeak”, because one can feel slight squeaking when chewing a piece of this cheese.
Hives in hollow logs or made of woven straw are fascinating because of a centuries-old story about the relationship between humans and bees, which dates back to the second half of the twentieth century when hives with movable combs were developed in the Bihac area in 1884 and is present to date, especially in Herzegovina that is the leader in honey processing and production using high and advanced technology, while combining the respect for nature and advanced technological processes.