Vol. 12 — Coppered Coffee and Warm Bread
Bosnia & Herzegovina
From Sarajevo to Mostar
Standfirst
A country where Ottoman kitchens meet Balkan ones, where a small copper džezva of coffee is served with rahat lokum, and where the smell of ćevapi drifts across an old-town square long into the night.
Chapter One
A meal that always ends in coffee
In Bosnia, the meal isn't finished until the coffee arrives. It comes in a small copper džezva, poured into a tiny fildžan cup, and drunk beside a cube of sugar and a piece of rahat lokum. Around it, hours can pass — friends, cousins, neighbours all folded into one long conversation.
The savoury side of the table is just as generous. Ćevapi grilled and pressed into warm somun bread with a spoon of kajmak. Burek spiralled with meat, cheese or spinach. Bosanski lonac slow-cooked all afternoon.
In Sarajevo, the coffee doesn't end a meal — it holds the room together.
Chapter Two
For the kitchen, the table, the guest
Pieces designed to slot quietly into a Bosnian home — from the daily coffee ritual to the long Sunday lunch.
Apron — Sarajevo
Blanket — Mostar
Apron — Baščaršija
The Collection
The Bosnia & Herzegovina Collection
Ćevapi, burek, bosanski lonac, baklava and the copper džezva of coffee — the warm, generous spirit of Bosnia, illustrated in one composition.
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