On February 14, in Delta City Shopping Mall in Podgorica, Regional Development Agency for Bjelasica, Komovi and Prokletije and partners have organized a fair to present market ready products from family farms in Northern Montenegro and from Albania, as well as mountains traditional cuisine. There were approximately 60 exhibitors at the fair – producers who participated in Local Cuisine as Tourism Offer of Montenegro and Albania project – from Puka municipality in Albania and from north-east of Montenegro who participated in packaging and labelling activity within this CBC project funded by EU, and also participants of FAO/EBRD project that is a replication of the CBC project on different territory of Montenegro.

The Grant Beneficiaries emphasize that “Typical mountain products are special for several reasons. First, because the very nature and biodiversity of these areas have defined this list, mountain people harvest, grow and process what they can at high altitudes. Our ancestors have established a way of processing these products, which has been passed down from generation to generation up to the present day, and it has been preserved in our rural families. These are high value products, that have been properly packaged and labelled, and presented at this fair for the first time. Among producers, several chefs from local hotels and restaurants presented special mountain dishes, and numerous visitors at the fair were able to taste them. This was also an opportunity to disseminate the cookbook of mountain cuisine which has been recently published through the same project.”

You can download the cookbook Gorska trpeza here.

You can download Recipes from the region of Pukë here.