Alongside the Soča Valley are many roads and paths leading to places where the old traditional farm activities are still alive. For example, the Alpine dairy-farms under Krn and other Tolmin mountains, where the famous Tolmin cheese is produced.

So the people of the Soča Valley have known about and enjoyed good food for a very long time. The traditions have passed from generation to generation, in written form and orally.

Today every housewife knows how to prepare the famous local dessert "kobariški štruklji" (a delicious dessert made from dough stuffed with walnuts, raisins and such like), to which the culinary grandees of the town even dedicate a festival. Yet, beware, history and tradition do not reign absolutely, for every štrukelj is different.

The »Kobariški štrukelj« is a pastry with a signature. Every housewife from Kobarid prepares hers in a slightly different way and “signs” it with her fingerprint in the middle of the »štrukelj«.

Once upon a time it served as a fortifying snack during the summer mowing, but today it is the star attraction on the dessert menus of restaurants in the Kobarid area.