Apr 30, 2015
Love myself a little cheese with history. This embossed little hard cheese, called trnič, used to be made by Slovenian herdsmen, who brought cattle to the mountain pastures of Velika planina during the summer. Usually two of a kind – with the same pattern – were made (it takes approx. 2 litres of milk to make one trnič) and resemblance to women’s breasts is not accidental. In autumn, on their return to the valley, herdsman would offer one trnič to his beloved as a token of faithfulness or, even better, to propose marriage. Today its bling-bling ambitions are long gone and trnič is celebrated as a Slovenian delicacy.