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.
In Herzegovina, one can still find old-fashioned beehives for honey production: this is the legacy that tells the story of a long beekeeping tradition in this country.
“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.
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 colours, tastes, sounds and history of the place.
