12-08-2013
A ćevapčići stand in Sarajevo’s Vrapcic market (from August 16th to August 24th the city will host the Sarajevo Film Festival). These small beef sausages, the meat being often mixed with lamb, are served in soft flattened bread rolls and they are the emblem of Bosnia Herzegovina. If you want to travel and discover this country, there are some interesting free apps edited by Oxfam Italia (photo by Mario Boccia)
In Bosnia-Herzegovina ćevapčići and kupus are the Italian equivalent of pizza, spaghetti and mandolins. And no matter how stereotypes may be limited, in the same way as it would be absurd to visit Italy without ordering at least a dish of pasta or a pizza margherita (mandolins, in fact, can be easily avoided) the same would go if one were to arrive in Sarajevo and didn’t order at least a dish of those small, delicious and spicy meat sausages made with beef often mixed with lamb (but never pork) served in flattened soft bread rolls (called somun, I’ll later tell you more about these) and sided with a good dose of raw onions and an iced beer (even though, philologically speaking, yogurt should be the preferred drink).
Mrkva in Sarajevo (photo TripAddvisor)
Serena Guidobaldi, twitter @serenoccia (photo by Paolo della Corte)
Are you already on your way to Bosnia Herzegovina? Then download the free apps edited by Oxfam Italia with travel info to discover this country.
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