We didn’t know what’s for lunch. Driving through the little settlements (like Kras) to reach the clifftop town of Vrbnik on the eastern coast of the island of Krk, was too quick to see what is going on between old stone mansions. We were in hurry. The deal was struck, if we will eat finger food, we will do it quickly, and then go straight to Šilo, a small tourist village where our journalist and driver Edi sings that night. He sings in klapa, a traditional Croatian coastal a

It is a rare treat to pick behind the kitchen’s door in a splendid restaurant. We tend to enjoy fine dining in a peaceful setting of a rural gastronomy point, enjoying the tastes and aromas of culinary heritage, and thanking the chef that has just arrived from kitchen with a quite clean apron. Seldom do we think of the kitchen place and food preparing, those nitty-gritty stuff that makes a cook’s everyday business. But when one enters this realm, one cannot separate creative