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Romanian Cuisine – Expression of Diversity
When visiting a new place I tend to think that each of us is pretty much curious about the local cuisine: in fact, apart from the basic need of feeding yourself one might like to taste something traditional in the area. This can be for cultural reasons or because of simply curiosity. Anyway, eating habits and local cuisine say a lot about a country or a region inhabitants and their culture.
Like everywhere else in the world Romanian gastronomy is an expression of the geography and history of the country too: the landscape diversity provides Romanian housewives with a large variety of fruits, vegetables and spices while the historical neighborhood of other ethnic groups has left a colourful and tasty mark. So, Romanian cuisine is extremely diverse. In fact it is a mix up of different dishes from several cultures it has come across during its stormy past, but it has managed to maintain its own character and adapt the foreign recipes to local taste. It has been greatly influenced by Balkan cuisine but it has retained some influences from other neighbours’ culinary traditions, such as Germans, Serbians, and Hungarians too.
Traditional Romanian spirits are very… strong and we can include here the famous palinca and tuica. Palinca is a traditional Transylvanian drink and it is a type of brandy, usually made from plums, apples, pears or apricots and its alcohol content is at least 40% but home made drinks can even reach 60% – 70% although their fruit flavour is still strong. Tuica is another type of local brandy in Wallahia.
But Romania is also a great wine producer. In fact arheological findings and historical documents place the beginning of wine culture on these lands some 4000 years ago. High quality wines produced in this region were object of trade ever since ancient times. Some of the most important vineyard centres are Dealu Mare, Pietroasa, Dragasani, Murfatlar, Cotnari, Odobesti and some of the best Romanian wine varieties include Tamaioasa Romaneasca, Feteasca Alba, Feteasca Neagra, Galbena de Odobesti, Babeasca, Busuioaca and many others.
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