Shopska salad derives its name from the region called Shopluk.

Luckily for lovers of mititei and shopska salad, plenty of them are already here.

In town, you'll be treated to inexpensive yet palatable wine and as much sausage and Shopska salad you can handle.

Try Shopska salad, a traditional Bulgarian dish that includes salty sheep's cheese.

Salads: Shopska salad with tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, onions and sirene.

Yogurt, lukanka, banitsa, shopska salad, lyutenitsa and kozunak are among the best-known local foods.

Entrées range from common standbys such as shopska salad and chicken shishle to more unknown commodities like 'dinosaur's tail on fire'.

A famous dish in Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia is Shopska salad, named after this ethnographic group.

In Bulgaria, tarator is a popular meze (appetizer) but also served as a side dish along with Shopska salad with most meals.

Over a shopska salad (tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and feta-style white cheese), I am introduced to the pleasures of rakia (a fruit-based schnapps).

The shopska salad, with its creamy Bulgarian feta topping a mix of cucumbers and tomatoes, is on almost every table (and the feta-and-cottage-cheese-stuffed fried peppers should be).

In Bulgaria and Macedonia, rakia is generally served with shopska salad, milk salad, pickled vegetables (turshiya) or other salads, which form the first course of the meal.

After touring the grounds, we had shopska salad and cool glasses of local wines for lunch, which was just enough fortification for our return to the city and an evening's outdoor performance of Borodin's "Prince Igor."

Famous for its rich Shopska salad, an appetizer and side dish which accompanies almost every meal, Macedonian cuisine is also noted for the diversity and quality of its dairy products, wines, and local alcoholic beverages, such as rakija.

The shopska salad, for example, which literally translates as "salad for people with wooden heads," or for the strong-willed, is made up of green peppers and cucumbers topped with Bulgarian feta cheese, a sharp-tasting cousin of the Greek cheese.