The 2nd big gathering of Coolinarika.com web site users, a unique on Croatian web space, and further was held today at Podravka's gastronomical center Štagelj.
Coolinarika.com becomes a social network in 2006, and today has more than 39.000 users from around the world. Food, fun and socializing at Coolinarika have in 2007 brought about the idea of a "live" meeting. Before this one, traditional, Coolinarika users have gathered for more than 20 times on big Cool gatherings that took place in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Canada, Australia, Germany and Sweden. On today's gathering there were about 100 users from Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia and Austria.
- I am not the kind of person that has problems transferring emotions on paper, but that really is not the case here. How do you explain the feeling when you first meet live a friend whom you shared with so many intimate moments but whom you have never seen before? Coolinarika is not just a web site that improves the quality of living of its followers in the gastronomical sense; it is also a place where I have learned a lot of culinary secrets, which is in the end a reason why I keep coming back to it. Every gathering is an extraordinary event, a proof that even with advanced technological development people are still people, not just virtual characters hidden behind their screens. This is exactly where I see the essence of Coolinarika and I am looking forward to every new gathering, said North who arrived to the gathering from Tuzla.
Sandra5 from
Rijeka said that Cool gathering is an unforgettable event and an opportunity
for creating wonderful friendships to last the life time.
- Excitement was
big, and so was my heart. Wonderful organization by Coolinarika, Podravka and
everybody that took part in this. I am sincerely looking forward to all the
future Cool gatherings and everything Coolinarika is giving us.
Such gatherings, along with other forms of content exchange among users of Coolinarika.com create a sense of emotional bonding and loyalty, not just to the web site, but also to Podravka as the food processing company.
Gathered users had the opportunity to participate in show cooking, raffle and vine tasting, and after lunch in Štagelj, the guests visited Podravka's Food Museum and took a site visit around the town, all with obligatory topic of culinary art, which after all brought them together at Coolinarika.com.