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...
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...
Sharon Scabin is an Erasmus student with the Ioan Alexandru University in Iasi, north-eastern Romania. She first came to Romania while she...
Muntenia or Wallachia, as it used to be called in the Middle Ages and in early modernity, has over the centuries acquired an impressive...
This year’s edition of the George Enescu Festival was hosted by Bucharest and 7 other cities in Romania over September 2 and 24. Having reached its...
Prizes for this contest consist in CDs with Romanian and foreign classical music, as well as other promotional items
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...
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...
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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...
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...
