María Alba
Learning local dishes
Kicevo is a city in the west of the Republic of Macedonia, in a valley south-east of Bistra Mountain, which is one of the most important in Macedonia. It is near Ohrid and about 112 km from Skopje, Macedonia's capital. This small town has just over 30,000 inhabitants, including a large group from Albania and a small group from Turkey. This was my last stop on my adventure through Bogomila, Bitola, Struga, Ohrid and Kicevo, ending in Skopje. It made for eleven intense days, and the main objective was to learn more about the culture of the Balkans and particularly Macedonia and also to learn to cook one of the typical dishes, Ajvar.
We cooked ajvar for charity along with people from the country who taught us how to make it from the pepper to the final packaging of the product, a process that lasted two days. In Kicevo they prepared special festival dance performances, traditional free food and of course they were selling jars of ajvar. Was also held a contest to choose the best among all groups' ajvar. We were also able to meet the Minister of Culture for Macedonia.
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