Slovenia - Stuffed Bell Peppers Braised in Tomato Sauce with Wild-Foraged Dandelion Salad and Milk-Boiled Potato Mash
Slovenia is a picturesque European country sitting at the crossroads where the Mediterannean, the Balkans and Central Europe converge. Known for its natural beauty, Slovenia has an impressive variety of landscapes. Soaring snow-capped mountains, sweeping plains, and a small but gorgeous Adriatic Sea coastline all feed into a culinary story as varied as Slovenia’s landscapes. The early foundations of Slovenian cuisine were laid over 4 millennia ago. Around 2000 BCE the diverse tribes of people living around the Adriatic Sea shared important food traditions including fishing and sea-gathering; micro-cultivation of grains; forest foraging for seasonal foods (such as mushrooms fruits and nuts), and small-scale farming for milk, meat, wool and hides. Wild honey hunting was also a central part of this shared prehistoric Adriatic food knowledge that was to become deeply embedded in Slovenian food culture. As the BC era was closing the Roman Empire arrived, in...