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Let’s start with our stories. The editors themselves are food enthusiasts or so-called ‘foodies’ and are fairly (or more precisely ‘very’) obsessed with local food, travelling with a short or long list of must-eat on their holidays. The leading editor vividly recalls an experience during her holiday to Croatia of the Croatian traditional dish, peka. Arriving at Zagreb in Croatia as her first destination, she already pictured the dish and eagerly searched for places to sample peka but failed. It was okay not to tick off a must-eat on the first destination, but by the middle of her travel itinerary, she started worrying that she might not be able to taste this dish. From the north to the south of the country, she and her companion had little luck in finding any restaurants serving peka. They asked local people and hotel staff in Rovinj in the west and Zadar down south, and at Split, but no one could let them know where peka was served. Even …