Koćuša Tavern
Medieval menu; activity holidays
Koćuša Tavern nourishes local tradition through several generations of the Čuljak (Marić) family starting with the great grandfather Ante who built a watermill with facilities for washing hand woven woollen covers, blankets and rugs at the end of the 19th century which still functions. On the mill, which also offered bread baked under the bell, the family tavern offering Herzegovinian cuisine has been built.
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Koćuša Tavern
Veljaci
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Gastronomy in the Middle Ages
For peasants who lived on feudal estates in the fertile river valleys (The Rivers Neretva, Bregava, Buna and Trebišnica), in the karst fields of lower Herzegovina, life was hard. Most of the peasants were farmers who leased their land and also paid taxes to the rulers. Most farmers were not free, but rather were serfs. They were required to stay with the land and had to work for the noblemen on their land reserves described in some Ottoman documents from the fifteenth century as „hassa zemlje“. As peasants generally lived off the land their diet was based on their own products so the population of Herzegovina was forced to cultivate all accessible farming land and grow different fruit and vegetables as well as use all edible wild plants and also keep farm animals.
