Pomegranate is one of the most characteristic symbols of Herzegovina. Wild pomegranate can be found almost everywhere from countryside to city centres. It is also a favourite subject for many local painters who dedicate to it a third of their paintings.

“It is not only that grannies remember, but their grandchildren “know a little something” about the hard-to-cook grass pea” meaning that the elderly know, and perhaps some of their grandchildren know as well, how difficult it is to cook grass pea.