title: Eating habits in the turn of the 19th and 20th century: exhibition of menu cards at the Sarajevo City Museum.
abstract: Through a selection of menu cards exhibited at the Sarajevo City Museum, this article looks  into the eating habits in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the second half of the 19th and the first  half of the 20th century (period before the World War I). These menu cards offer a specific overview of eating habits of all ranks of society in Bosnia  and Herzegovina, where there are no essential differences between dinner tables of prelates  and ordinary people. The paper gives a short comparison of traditional eating habits in Bosnia and Herzegovina  with nowadays eating habits, especially concerning the problem of obesity.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ajnijaomanic@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ajnija
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Omanic
authors.forename: Mevlida
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Serdarevic
authors.forename: Amer
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ovcina
mesh_terms: D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D003296:Cooking / Q000266:history*; D004032:Diet / Q000266:history*; D005502:Food / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans