Pork is a staple in Romanian traditional cuisine. So much so that slaughtering pigs is a tradition with a whole array of rituals attached...
If you travel to the southern part of Transylvania, a region where you can find Saxon fortified villages and churches, and if you have a closer look...
While recipes may vary widely, the primary ingredient is wheat kernels which have been boiled until they are soft, they are drained very well and...
For the Christmas fasting period in the Orthodox church and in Romanias traditional households, vegetarian dishes are the norm, with no meat and no...
It may come as a surprise that Romanians love crawfish. It is not exactly a wildly popular dish, but it is a delicacy prized by connoisseurs,...
According to the traditional calendar, the herds of sheep descend from the mountains, weather permitting, from September until around...
This year's edition was held under the heading 'Limits'
Nowadays it is mostly used in salads, but it used to see more variety in terms of cooking methods. Borscht, the best known preparation for western...
Valcea County is located in southern Romania, at the foot of the Carpathians
In early autumn, the locality of Pericei, in western Romania’s Salaj county becomes a genuine tourist attraction as for quite a few years now,...
Referred to in Romanian as 'branza de burduf' this type of soft cheese is a traditional dairy product, which is left to mature in sheepskin and is...
The city of Fagaras played host recently to an event occasioned by the discovery of a 17th century cookbook sponsored by a Hungarian noblewoman who...
The modernisation of the Romanian principalities that began in the 19th century
A province situated between the Danube and the Black Sea, Dobrudja boasts a kind of cuisine with powerful Oriental influences owing to the Turkish...
Dobrogea is the Romanian region between the Danube and the Black Sea, and has a very colorful history and population, a veritable melting pot of...
