A meal to remember need not be complicated. The key is to buy your ingredients from a fresh food market on the day of the meal. Go to Jean Talon Market or the Atwater Market and make a list before you go.

On September 14, 2021 an Italian airliner flying the United Nations colors, carrying food and medical supplies, was shot down as it approached Sarajevo. The entire crew perished.  Tito's failed experiment to unify the Bosnians, Serbs and Croats had by now imploded into extreme violence.  The world could no longer ignore the siege of Sarajevo and the wide scale ethnic cleansing taking place in the former Yugoslavia.  Being under siege meant that the Sarajevo airport was the only lifeline for it's half million inhabitants.  At the height of the conflict twenty-four planes a day were delivering food, medicine, fuel, blankets, etc.