Before me, about six dozen freshly skinned frogs, shiny and headless, sat in a large bowl on the kitchen counter of family-owned Konoba Vrilo, a restaurant in the town of Prud, near the delta’s ...

The restaurant was also in proximity to hotels, a roller rink, the industrial YMCA, and manufacturers. The exterior of the building was styled in art deco. Beneath the leaping frog, “Ellis ...