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Local Food Matters!
LILJANA TANEVSKA
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t is a warm summer evening and “There are also other reasons why our
Pece Cvetkovski shares with us his traditional food disappears from our
passion for unspoiled nature, his joy tables. Taste this: Cironki. It’s dried fish
of coming home to his parent’s village from Prespa lake, a local speciality.
and his delicious home-cooked fare. Fishing in the lake is the exclusive right
He offers cheese, vegetables and of only one company. Fishing without
sausages and smiles: “Be careful, it’s permission is illegal. In principle,
all illegal food!” He explains that it everyone could make Cironki, but in
is not allowed to sell most of these fact only a few old people do it if they
delicious products on the market. buy the fish from the company.”
“Be careful,
it’s all illegal food!”
Pece Cvetkovski