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.
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.
The story of Livno cheese is perhaps one of the most beautiful stories related to a product.
“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.
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.
The word “pršut” has a clear Latin origin, made of pro, meaning “before” and “exsuctus” meaning “dried out.”
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.
