Ștefan Baciu

Fried dough is a popular dessert, easy to make fast. All you need is half a kg of flour, a bit of oil, and dry or fresh yeast, sugar, frying oil, and...

Fried dough is a popular dessert, easy to make fast

Spring nettle-based recipes

Spring nettle-based recipes

Romanians have just celebrated the Annunciation, an important feast day in the Christian calendar. It is only on this day and on Palm...

Nettles are among the plants heralding the advent of spring. They grow naturally, nearby waters or on the outskirts of forests. Eating...

Plant-based dishes popular during Lent, the fasting period before Easter.

Gastronomic traditions have most of the time been influenced by religious holidays, when specific dishes are prepared

Set up on August 30, 1948, by Decree 221, the General Department of State Security, known as the Securitate, was the essence of the countrys repressive communist system.

Chicken-based dishes in Romania's rural regions

The mouth-watering Plescoi sausages

Banat, a Romanian historical province in western Romania, is home to different ethnic groups, something also seen in its cuisine.

The forested area in Maramures County, northern Romania, is 290,000 hectares

Pork-based dishes

Traditionally, Romanians slaughter pigs for Christmas, an event at which a special dish is served called the pig's alms.