The Workers’ Lunch is the brainchild of two pre-existing culinary projects, RAGOR’s ‘KUHAM DOMAče’ (HOMEly COOKING) and GMJ’s ‘Naša kuhna’ (Our cuisine). Once their enthusiastic employees joined forces with each-other and Jesenice chefs and restaurant owners, many charming olden-day menus were re-created, bringing you the best ‘classical’ home meals. Now you can also try them in the restaurants of Jesenice – brace yourself for flavours that will trigger a flare of nostalgia with each precious bite.
In the Our Cuisine project, three Gorenjska museums – the Loški muzej of Škofja Loka, the Gornjesavski muzej of Jesenice and the Muzeji radovljiške občine – joined forces with the Posavski muzej Brežice. The project consists of two parts: the virtual, online one – and the 3D one which is very much offline and tangible. On our joint online platform ‘Špajza’ we store digitized ‘treats’ from museum collections and book materials, which present culinary characteristics, food culture and objects, as well as recordings of workshops and virtual tours of exhibitions. However, virtual food has no flavour and doesn’t smell as lovely as the real deal does – which we found to be a crying shame. Therefore a unique menu called The Workers’ Lunch was prepared in cooperation with RAGOR and Jesenice chefs and restaurant owners. These menus remind us just how many unique dishes were either developed or adopted from the ironworks workers who came to Jesenice in search of employment, be it from other parts of Slovenia (especially from Primorska) or from other republics of the former Yugoslavia. Even though The Workers’ Lunch is presented as one of the tourist products, it is primarily intended for the locals so they can experience the variety of our culinary heritage in the most delicious of ways.
