Abstract

The "Težak" magazine, published by the Serbian Agricultural Society from 1869 to 1941, was a scientific, professional and popular science literature considering the field of agriculture, housekeeping and culinary art, where authors used to publish their field data collection based papers and where one part of entire articles included Pirot region as well. Creating a theoretical basis for the important segment of intangible heritage of Pirot region - the gastroheritology, one part of the research represents a review of already published material, which's very important part are articles of the aforementioned magazine. Between 1880. and 1940, nine different-approach articles were published, all of them representing an important theoretical aspect in traditional agriculture and local food culture research. Agricultural production circumstances in Pirot region after liberation from the Turks are depicted in the articles as well as pasturing and the kachkavalj producing practice, manouri and beaten cheese, typical varieties of fruit and cereals and their yields, peasant habits and, at that time, problems of various kinds.

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