Ajvar has Serbian origins .
`` Ajvar origins in the Serbian cuisine , and was therefore for long time known as `` '' Serbian salad '' '' Slavonic Encyclopaedia , edited by Joseph Slabey , 1949 , 338 ; Lovett Fielding Edwards , Introducing Yugoslavia , 1954 , 79 ; The World and it 's peoples , 1965 , 45 ; Pavla Zakonjsek , Prakti ? na kuharica ( Slovenian cookbook ) , 1966 , 123 ; Joseph Wechsberg , The Cooking of Vienna 's Empire , 1960 , 164 ; Thelma Barer-Stein , You eat what you are : a study of ethnic food traditions , 1979 , 576 ; John Masson , Letts go to Yugoslavia , 1977 , 70 ; Vera Lï¿½vai , Culinary delights , 62 , 169 ; see also Malcolm Burr , Slouch hat , 1935 , 165 or `` '' Serbian vegetable caviar '' '' Joseph Wechsberg , The Cooking of Vienna 's Empire , 1960 , 164 ; Thelma Barer-Stein , You eat what you are : a study of ethnic food traditions , 1979 , 576 ; John Masson , Letts go to Yugoslavia , 1977 , 70 . ''
Ajvar