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Apple-based Dishes and Desserts
Close-Up 12.01.2018

Apple-based Dishes and Desserts

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...

Apple-based Dishes and Desserts
Kristina Piškur of Slovenia
Close-Up 04.01.2018

Kristina Piškur of Slovenia

Kristina Piškur studied political sciences. She is 28 and is from Ljubljana, Slovenia. And when she came to Romania she did not know much about this...

Kristina Piškur of Slovenia
New Year’s recipes
Close-Up 31.12.2017

New Year’s recipes

Today's show will once again be about the kind of dishes that Romanians enjoy more often around the holidays. This particular recipe is for...

New Year’s recipes
Traditional fatback
Close-Up 26.12.2017

Traditional fatback

Today we will be talking about a preparation that is fundamental to traditional culture in Romania, as well as the rest of the Balkans, fatback. In...

Traditional fatback
Homemade sausages
Close-Up 24.12.2017

Homemade sausages

Todays show continues our holiday series, bringing you traditional recipes left down from generation to generation in the countryside. Most of them...

Homemade sausages
Koliva
Close-Up 13.12.2017

Koliva

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...

Koliva
Dried Beans Stew
Close-Up 09.12.2017

Dried Beans Stew

While not an exclusively local dish, dried beans are a major ingredient in Romanian cooking, whether in soups, stews, or entrees,...

Dried Beans Stew
Hadi Faour of Israel
Close-Up 07.12.2017

Hadi Faour of Israel

Our interlocutor today is called Hadi Faour and comes from Israel. He arrived in Romania six years ago to study medicine. Instead of a university...

Hadi Faour of Israel
Roast chicken with quinces
Close-Up 03.12.2017

Roast chicken with quinces

Today we make a stopover in the Romanian region of Wallachia, alternatively known as Muntenia, the southern-most territory inhabited by Romanians, on...

Roast chicken with quinces
Gustavo Hernandez from Uruguay
Close-Up 30.11.2017

Gustavo Hernandez from Uruguay

Gustavo Hernandez comes from the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo. There, he was the owner of four restaurants serving local cuisine, the star of which...

Gustavo Hernandez from Uruguay
Clay Pot Baking
Close-Up 30.11.2017

Clay Pot Baking

Claypot baked bread is typical of the region of Oltenia, in southern Romania, and its history goes way back millennia, as it is still made as the...

Clay Pot Baking
Christmas fasting dishes
Close-Up 26.11.2017

Christmas fasting dishes

For the Christmas fasting period in the Orthodox church and in Romanias traditional households, vegetarian dishes are the norm, with no meat and no...

Christmas fasting dishes
Crawfish in garlic sauce
Close-Up 19.11.2017

Crawfish in garlic sauce

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,...

Crawfish in garlic sauce
The shepherd’s loaf
Close-Up 12.11.2017

The shepherd’s loaf

According to the traditional calendar, the herds of sheep descend from the mountains, weather permitting, from September until around...

The shepherd’s loaf
Sharon Scabin of Italy
Close-Up 09.11.2017

Sharon Scabin of Italy

Sharon Scabin is an Erasmus student with the Ioan Alexandru University in Iasi, north-eastern Romania. She first came to Romania while she...

Sharon Scabin of Italy

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