Regional foods and its importance.

This bachelor work is focused on regional food and their meaning in general. It also examines awareness of regional food among women in general public. The theoretical part deals with general characteristic of regional food and with their importance in Czech Republic. It is concerned with institutions which are devoted to development of these regional foods in Czech Republic. It is also focused on regional food in history and abroad, especially in Europe and in our closest neighbors. Then it is dedicated to thirteen regions in Czech Republic. There is general characteristic of a local climate for each region and possibilities for agriculture. Three award-winning foods and their producers are written and slightly described for each region. The practical part focuses on discovering awareness of regional food among working women and retired women in the form of questionnaire. The gained data are processed and then graphically represented. 88% of respondents usualy buys regional food