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...
Dishes could be tasty even when they are exclusively made of vegetables. During various religious fasting periods observed during the...
The simplest of recipes is eggplant puree, which, for reasons unknown, is called ‘eggplant salad’ in Romanian. Pick a few medium sized eggplants...
Courgettes Courgettes, also known as zucchini, have a wide variety of uses. One very easy to make dish is fried courgettes....
