Foreword by Milan Rakovac 1982, translated by Margaret Walker Food! – what and when to eat it and how to prepare it, and in Istria that has always been an important question. Particularly WHAT, because there has not always been enough food here. In the time of Bishop Jurja Dobrile in the first half of the nineteenth century, Istria was ravaged by hunger, and Dobrile gathered help by sending a desperate appeal to Vienna. Under Italy, in one village of Poreć, the father of the

Istria may have been prized by Venice, France, Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia, but it was not a wealthy region. Marcus Tanner, in his...