North #Macedonia - Explore the land of the #gourmets

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If your next purpose of travel is #food and local culture, North Macedonia is offering you a unique experience. Macedonian destinations are not offering you just a good meal or a glass of wine during a trip, it’s driving you through the #history, #culture and #local sources of its products and their #journey to the plate.
#Macedonian taste of every single bite or sip of wine and the smell of the fresh ingredients it is a way of immersing yourselves into the culture and heritage of a region.
Travellers know best that food offers a gateway into other cultures, through taste, through food preparation and the whole eating environment. It embodies cultural identity and individuality, giving the tourist and travellers an insight into a new experience, the exotic, the unusual and a deeper insight into the place they are visiting. The tangible aspects of Macedonian food and drink provide a knowledge base into the religion, traditions, customs and history of places.
If you dares your next trip to be more personal and #authentic making the experience memorable in a completely unique way, than this wine and food destination is challenging to be explored by you. 

The Taste of Macedonian cuisine

North Macedonia is a small country in the southeastern part of the #Balkan #Peninsula, surrounded by land on all sides. Yes, every country has its own story about the sun, the mountains, the lakes, the rivers, the archaeological sites, the history, the tradition and the culture. Stories, more or less intriguing, depend on the personal curiosity. However, the thread that connects everyone, the thread that weaves the hours spent in #exploring and verifying any eventual story, coloring the day and the mood, is the segment that everyone takes for granted with #pleasure - the food.

The Ingredients

It provides a kind of an immediate taste of the history and the culture, the inevitable ingredient of the #gastronomy art; undoubtedly one of the key elements of the material cultural #heritage, one of the factors of a particular nation’s identity, of a certain geographical area. It is indeed an individual choice how one explores North Macedonia. After all, as we have stated, North Macedonia is a small country and it only takes from two to four hours’ drive to any particular destination.

Gastronomy Tips

Don’t forget to start your meal with #Meze ! The cold appetizers in North Macedonia are sometimes called prolonged meze. In Macedonian meals, they are a true prelude to the main course. #Ajvar, another appetizer, is the pride of Macedonian cuisine and is characteristic of wintertime. The recipe, which includes red peppers, is one of the biggest secrets of the Balkan kitchen. It’s traditionally prepared at home, in yards and gardens. The best known dish in our country is #Tavche #Gravche, beans never taste better.

For those who are fish lovers’ Macedonian cuisine has old and authentic recipes. Our people say that the fish swim three times – in the water, in the pot and in the wine. In North Macedonia there are lakes and rivers which are characterized by incredible cleanliness, thus there is tradition of fish specialties and flawless wine used to prepare some of them. One of these specific traditional recipes is “Drunken carp”. This fish can be found in Prespa, the town in which the recipe is best prepared. 
Don’t forget to Cheers with good #wine. Wines that are producing on each part of North Macedonia are wines that are made of growing up of the best quality grape.
North Macedonia is destination for those who are in search for authentic experiences, opportunity for individuals wanting to move forward in the time of new world challenges.