The Best Of Romanian Cuisine - Food For The Soul

by John Doyle

Romanians really enjoy eating. They like to have a full table with every type of goodies, especially for the holidays. Nowadays, nutritionists recommend us to eat healthy food, meaning many raw vegetables and fruits, which are specific to the area where we live and according to the ongoing season.

The people of Romania are perfectly aware of what healthy food means. However, they have not abandoned their traditionally fine cooking completely in order to subscribe to the health food fad. In every corner of Romania there are regional culinary specialties.

For example, in Transylvania, to prepare the traditional Sunday meal, housewives get a fat chicken from the household, pick the feathers and cook a noodle soup, but not any type of noodles. They make those noodles, as well as the rest of the food at home. That soup is part of the Romanian famous food list.

Several items of Romanian cuisine, which are considered as traditional as the famous noodle soup, are actually borrowed from the cuisine of other cultures. For instance, they usually have a special dish of schnitzel, an Austrian item, along with fried potatoes every Sunday after returning from the church. Like many other people in the world, the Romanians have a long established tradition of going to church on Sundays. And having schnitzel with the finest quality wine and palinca (a strong drink made from grapes or prunes) is almost like a ritual which they are practicing till date.

For dessert, women usually bake special cookies and all sort of pies. The most famous of them are the pies and the cookies made with nuts cream or vanilla, baked, of course, in the oven of the wood stove. Romanians also have a tradition in baking homemade bread in a special earth made oven.

The homemade bread is a big, spongy affair and is still made with traditional ingredients without any artificial additives. It contains potatoes and wheat flour as in the past. It remains one of the famous traditional preparations, because it is delicious, with a crunchy outer crust and soft inside.

As you can see, the sheer range of Romanian culinary delights is huge, whether the cuisine originated in the country or was borrowed from other cultures. Also, the preparations are all exquisitely delicious, giving Romanian cuisine a name in the culinary world.

Many people choose their food today being influenced by the colours of the wrappings or the colour of the food itself. Unfortunately, there are generations, which do not know the taste of a garden grown tomato, or the taste of a chicken grown up on corn.

Though Romanians try to be traditional in their food habits, nowadays a fair number of people are opting for dining out often or having packaged food at home. This is mostly because they have no time or energy left to cook after having to cope with their hectic timetables.

But the wonderful traditional cuisine of Romania is in a class of its own and should be tried by everyone. It is just not possible to avoid falling in love with mouth watering Romanian delicacies, like the delectable “sarmale” (cabbage rolls) or the soups and “ciorba” (broth).

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