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Romanian cuisine is diverse, blending the dishes of the several traditions which it has come into contact with, as well as maintaining its own character. It has been greatly influenced by Balkan cuisine but also includes influences from the cuisines of other neighbours, such as Germans, Serbians, and Hungarians. An exhaustive study of Romanian cuisine is very hard to make, because under the same food name are sometimes included products which can hardly belong to the same category. Asian cuisine is a term for the various cuisines of South, East and Southeast Asia and for fusion dishes based on combining them. ... ÊÂòàÈ€ū¹ ² ³ ÁHello ... Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of Spanish, French, African, Amerindian and Indian cuisine. ... South Asian cuisine includes the cuisines of the South Asia. ... See the individual entries for: Argentine cuisine Brazilian cuisine Mexican cuisine South American cuisine . ... The term Middle Eastern cuisine refers to the cuisines of the Middle East. ... North American cuisine is a term used for foods native to or popular in countries of North America. ... Cuisine of Africa reflects indigenous traditions, as well as influences from Arabs, Europeans, and Asians. ... This is a list of famous and notable chefs. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... For the coarsely ground flour, see flour. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Serbian cuisine is derived from mixed traditions, mostly influenced by Mediterranean (especially Greek), Hungarian, Turkish and Austrian couisines, which makes it a heterogeneous one. ...

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"I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga", and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata"." --Bram Stoker, Dracula

An existential Romanian question is: We eat to live, or live to eat? A great number of proverbs and sayings have developed around the activity of eating. From the innocent child's saying of thanks: Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847–April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, and the name of its title character, the vampire Count Dracula. ...

Sărut-mâna pentru masă,

c-a fost bună şi gustoasă,

şi bucătăreasa frumoasă

Thank you for the meal

it was good and tasty

and the cook was beautiful

to the more philosophical:

Mulţumescu-ţi ţie Doamne

c-am mâncat şi iar mi-e foame

Thank you Lord

for I have eaten and I am hungry again

and Dragostea trece prin stomac (Love passes through the stomach); or the simple Pofta vine mâncănd (Appetite comes while eating); or the sarcastic Porcul mănâncă orice, dar se-ngraşă pentru alţii (The pig eats anything, but it gets fat for others); or a total fulfillment saying Mâncat bine, băut bine, dimineaţa sculat mort (Ate well, drank well, in the morning woke up dead).

A plate of sarmalute cu mămăliga, a popular Romanian meal

Recipies bear the same influences as the rest of Romanian culture: from Roman times there still exists the simple pie called plăcintă in Romanian and keeping the initial meaning of the Latin word placenta, the Turks have brought meatballs (perişoare in a meatball soup), from the Greeks there is musaca, from the Bulgarians there are a wide variety of vegetable dishes like zacuscă, from the Austrians there is the şniţel and the list could continue. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1155 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Romanian cuisine Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1155 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Romanian cuisine Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Ciorbă (IPA: ; from the Turkish word çorba) is a general Romanian word describing soups consisting of various vegetables and meat, similar to the borscht. ... Greek moussakas Moussaka (Greek μουσακάς; Romanian musaca; Turkish musakka; South Slavic мусака/ musaka; Armenian: ; Arabic: musaqqaa) is a traditional aubergine (eggplant)-based dish in the Balkans and the Middle East. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Schnitzel with roast potatoes Wiener Schnitzel (from the German Wiener Schnitzel, meaning veal fillet Viennese style) is one of the most famous traditional Austrian dishes. ...

One of the most common dishes is mămăliga, a cornmeal mush, long-considered the poor man's dish (N-are nici o mămăligă pe masă - He hasn't even a mămăliga on the table), but it has become very appreciated in more recent times. Pork is the main meat used in Romanian cuisine (Peştele cel mai bun, tot porcul rămâne - The best fish will always be the pork), but beef is also consumed, and a good lamb or fish dish is never to be refused. Different recipes are prepared depending on the season or for special events. For Christmas, a pig is traditionally sacrificed by every family and a wide variety of recipes are prepared, including: cârnaţi (or cărnaţi) - a kind of long sausages with meat, caltaboşi (or cartaboşi) – sausages made with liver and other intestines, piftie – made with difficult to use parts like the feet or the head and ears, suspended in aspic, and also tochitură (a kind of stew) is served along with mămăligă and wine (so that the pork can swim) and of course sweetened with the traditional cozonac (sweet bread with nuts or lokum - rahat in Romanian). At Easter, lamb is served and the main dishes are roast lamb and drob - a cooked mix of intestines, meat and fresh vegetables, mainly green onion, seved with pască (pie made with cottage cheese) as a sweetener. Standard mămăligă. It is softer than the traditional, peasant-style mămăligă Cooking a pot of mămăligă Mămăligă (, cornmeal mush) is a Romanian dish made out of (yellow) maize. ... Christmas or Christmas Day is a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity. ... ASPIC can refer to: Advanced SCSI Programmable Interrupt Controller Application Service Provider Industry Consortium Armed Services Personnel Interrogation Center Association for Strategic Planning in Internal Communications Authors Standard Prepress Interfacing Cod This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... Beef Stew A stew is a common dish made of vegetables and meat cooked in some sort of broth or sauce. ... Cozonac is a traditional Romanian cake, usually prepared on the Christmas Eve, Good Friday and several other feasts. ... Several pieces of lokum Turkish Delight, or lokum, is a confection made from starch and sugar. ... Easter, also known as Pascha (Greek Πάσχα: Passover), the Feast of the Resurrection, the Sunday of the Resurrection, or Resurrection Day, is the most important religious feast of the Christian liturgical year, observed between late March and late April (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity). ...

Wine is the main drink and has a tradition of over two millennia. Romania is currently the world's 9'th largest wine producer, and recently the export market has started to grow. A wide variety of domestic (Fetească, Grasă, Tamâioasă) and worldwide (Italian Riesling, Merlot, Sauvignon blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Muscat Ottonel) varieties are produced. Beer is also highly regarded, generally blonde pilsener beer, made with German influences. Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Merlot is a variety of wine grape used to create a popular red wine. ... Sauvignon blanc is a white wine grape probably originating in the Bordeaux region of France that is now planted in much of the worlds winelands producing a crisp dry refreshing white varietal wine. ... Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety of red grape mainly used for wine production, and is, along with Chardonnay, one of the most widely-planted of the worlds noble grape varieties. ... Chardonnay vines in Burgundy Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used to make a white varietal wine. ... A selection of bottled beers A selection of cask beers Beer is one of the worlds oldest alcoholic beverages, possibly brewed for the first time over 10,000 years ago, according to renowned beer writer Michael Jackson. ... Pilsener or pilsner is a pale lager, developed in the city of Plzeň (Pilsen in German/English), Western Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). ...

Romania is the worlds's 2'nd largest plum producer and almost the entire plum production becomes the famous ţuică (a plum brandy obtained through one or more distillation steps). Plum is also a nickname for British humorist P.G. Wodehouse. ... Å¢uică (in Romanian , sometimes spelled Tzvika), is a traditional Romanian alcoholic beverage, usually made from plums. ... Laboratory distillation set-up using, without a fractionating column 1: Heat source 2: Still pot 3: Still head 4: Thermometer/Boiling point temperature 5: Condenser 6: Cooling water in 7: Cooling water out 8: Distillate/receiving flask 9: Vacuum/gas inlet 10: Still receiver 11: Heat control 12: Stirrer speed...

List of dishes

• ardei umpluţi (stuffed bell pepper)
• caltaboşi
• chiftele (a type of large meatballs covered with a flour crust or breadcrumb crust)
• chifteluţe de ciuperci (chiftele made of mushrooms rather than meat)
• ciorbă de burtă (tripe soup)
• ciorbă de perişoare (meatball soup)
• ciulama (white sauce stew)
• dovlecei umpluţi (stuffed vegetable marrow)
• drob
• fasole verde (green bean)
• frigărui
• iahnie (beans stew)
• piftie (meat jelly)
• plăcinte (pies)
• pilaf (pilaff)
• pârjoale
• ostropel
• limbă cu măsline (cow tongue with olives)
• mămăligă (cornmeal mush)
• mâncare de mazăre (peas meal)
• musaca (moussaka)
• mititei (a kind of meatball in cylindrical shape)
• papricaş
• peşte marinat (marinated fish)
• plachie
• rasol (with garlic or horseradish)
• saramură (pickled fish)
• sarmale (stuffed cabbage)
• soté de morcovi (carrots sotè)
• şniţel
• stufat de miel
• supă de găluşte (dumpling soup)
• tocană, dim. tocaniţă (stew)
• tochitură moldovenească (moldavian stew)
• varză călită (steamed cabbage with pork ribs or duck or sausages, etc.)
• zacuscă

Ardei umpluţi is Romanian for stuffed peppers. ... 203. ... A meatball is a generally spherical mass of ground meat and other ingredients, such as bread or breadcrumbs, minced onion, various spices, and possibly eggs, cooked by frying, baking, steaming, or braising in sauce. ... 203. ... Basidiocarps (mushrooms) of the fungus Leucocoprinus sp. ... Ciorbă (IPA: ; from the Turkish word çorba) is a general Romanian word describing soups consisting of various vegetables and meat, similar to the borscht. ... Ciorbă (IPA: ; from the Turkish word çorba) is a general Romanian word describing soups consisting of various vegetables and meat, similar to the borscht. ... Green common beans on the plant Green beans are the fruits of any kind of bean, eaten immature as a vegetable. ... Frigărui (singular: frigăruie) is a Romanian dish consisting of small pieces of meat (usually pork, beef, mutton, lamb or chicken) grilled on a stick. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Chicken Tikka Jalfrezi, pilaf rice, and cucumber rhaita Pilaf, (Turkish pilav, Azeri plov, Bosnian pilav, Serbian pilav, Armenian pilav, Romanian pilaf, Persian polow, Greek πιλάφι, India pulao, Uzbek plov) also spelled pilau, perloo, perlau, plaw, pilaw, and pilaff is a Middle Eastern and Central Asian dish in which a grain, such... Chicken Tikka Jalfrezi, pulao rice, and cucumber raita Pilaf, (Turkish pilav, Azeri plov, Bosnian pilav, Serbian pilav, Armenian pilav, Romanian pilaf, Persian polow, Greek πιλάφι, India/Afghanistan/Pakistan pulav/ pulao, Uzbek and Russian plov, Kazakh palaw) also spelled pilau, perloo, perlau, plaw, pilaw, and pilaff is a Middle Eastern and Central... Standard mămăligă. It is softer than the traditional, peasant-style mămăligă Cooking a pot of mămăligă Mămăligă (, cornmeal mush) is a Romanian dish made out of (yellow) maize. ... Musaca (prob. ... Greek moussakas Moussaka (Greek μουσακάς; Romanian musaca; Turkish musakka; South Slavic мусака/ musaka; Armenian: ; Arabic: musaqqaa) is a traditional aubergine (eggplant)-based dish in the Balkans and the Middle East. ... Mititei (or mici, in Romanian mic=little) is a traditional Romanian dish, made from a grilled mix of beef, mutton and pork ground meat. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Rasol (no plural) is a Romanian dish made from meat, potatoes, and several other vegetables, boiled together. ... Binomial name Allium sativum L. Percentages are relative to US RDI values for adults. ... Binomial name Armoracia rusticana P.G. Gaertn. ... Sarmale in cabbage leaves Sarma (sarma сарма, plural sarme сарми in most Southern Slavic languages, and sarmale in Romanian), is a word for a grape leaf or cabbage roll common to Southeastern Europe and adjacent areas. ... Wiener schnitzel (veal fillet Viennese style) is one of the most famous traditional Austrian dishes. ... Beef Stew A stew is a common dish made of vegetables and meat cooked in some sort of broth or sauce. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

List of spices and salads

• ardei copţi
• borş
• murături
• mujdei
• salată de boeuf
• salată de vinete
• salată de cartofi
• salată de macaroane
• salată de ţelină
• sfeclă murată
• salată de sfeclă
• salată de roşii

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Salată de vinete is a salad made from grilled chopped eggplants, sunflower oil and chopped onions. ...

List of cheese types

The generic name for cheese in Romania is brânză and it is considered to be of Dacian origin. Most of the cheese is made of cow or sheep milk, goat milk being rarely used. Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals. ... Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Southeastern Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now...

• brânză de burduf
• brânză de vaci (sweet cow milk cheese)
• brânză topită
• caş
• caşcaval
• telemea
• urdă

This is telemea before, or just after beeing salted. ... The traditional name for a specific the semi-hard cheese made in Romania, with a light taste. ... Telemea is the generic name for white cheeses like cottage cheese or feta which originates from Romania. ... Urdă is a Romanian cheese made from the whey drained from cheeses such as telemea, and other cheeses. ...

List of Desserts

• baclava (very sweet pastry)
• covrigi (pretzels)
• gogoşi (donuts)
• halva (khalva)
• rahat (Turkish delight)
• plăcintă (pies)
• colivă
• cozonac
• pandişpan sponge cake
• orez cu lapte (rice pudding)
• griş cu lapte (cream of wheat)
• lapte de pasăre ("bird's milk")
• cremă de zahăr ars (creme caramel)
• clătite (crêpes)
• turtă dulce (gingerbread)
• chec (cake)
• şarlota
• prajituri

• savarine
• amandine
• joffre
• excelent
• diplomat
• ...

A selection of desserts Dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a dinner, usually consisting of sweet food but sometimes of a strongly-flavored one, such as some cheeses. ... Baclava is a diamond shaped Middle Eastern desert made with layers of pastry and filled with crushed walnuts (other nuts have also been used). ... Pastry is the name given to various kinds of dough made from ingredients such as flour, butter, shortening, baking powder and/or eggs that are rolled out thinly and used as the base for baked goods. ... A modern factory produced hard pretzel. ... A chocolate-glazed doughnut A doughnut, or donut, is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter. ... The word halva is used to describe two distinctly different types of sweet, block shaped confections. ... Rahat (רהט) is a city in the Southern District of Israel. ... Several pieces of lokum Single piece Turkish Delight, or lokum, (Armenian translit: lokhum, Bosnian: Rahat Lokum, Greek: Loukoumi), is a confection made from starch and sugar. ... This article is about the baked good, for other uses see Pie (disambiguation). ... Koljivo (also called žito, which means wheat in Serbian; in Romanian: colivă) is a traditional meal made by cooking whole (or sometimes ground) wheat seeds, with some sugar and ground nuts added. ... Cozonac is a traditional Romanian cake, usually prepared on the Christmas Eve, Good Friday and several other feasts. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Rice pudding being served during the traditional Scandinavian Christmas meal, in Denmark Rice pudding (Arroz Doce) in a typical Christmas meal, in Portugal Pulut hitam served in a Malaysian restaurant Rice pudding is a dessert enjoyed by people of different cultures all over the world. ... Semolina is coarsely ground durum wheat, with particles mostly between 0. ... Lapte de pasăre is a candy produced by the Bucaria sweets company in Chişinău, Moldova. ... A sweet crêpe opened up, with whipped cream and strawberry sauce on it A sweet crêpe rolled up, ready to be eaten A crêpe is a thin pancake, a meal made of wheat popular throughout Europe and elsewhere. ... Gingerbread A gingerbread house A gingerbread house Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavor is ginger. ... A birthday cake decorated with fruit, shaved chocolate, and candles. ...

List of drinks

• socată
• bere (beer)
• palincă
• rachiu (fruit brandy)
• secărică (caraway seed brandy)
• turţ
• ţuică (plum brandy)
• vişinată (a type of cherry liqueur)
• vin (wine)

This article is about a beverage. ... Romanian beer comes from the long tradition of Romanian brewery, being introduced in Transylvania by the German colonists (Transylvanian Saxons) and in Moldavia by cultural connections with Poland. ... A selection of bottled beers A selection of cask beers Beer is one of the worlds oldest alcoholic beverages, possibly brewed for the first time over 10,000 years ago, according to renowned beer writer Michael Jackson. ... Palinka (Hungarian pálinka; Romanian palincă; Russian палинка; Slovak pálenka) is a traditional type of brandy that is produced in Hungary, Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia and in the Transylvania region of Romania. ... Ţuică (in Romanian ), also called şliboviţă or rachiu, is a traditional Romanian alcoholic beverage, usually made from fruit (mostly plums, but also apples or cherry plums), or from the leftovers remaining from wine making, in which case its called ţuică de borhot. ... Ţuică (in Romanian , sometimes spelled Tzvika), is a traditional Romanian alcoholic beverage, usually made from plums. ... Vişinată (IPA: ) is a Romanian alcoholic beverage produced by filling a jar with sour cherries (vişine in Romanian), then filling the rest of the jar with alcohol (brandy or palinka), adding sugar and leaving it in the sun for a while. ... Bottles of strawberry liqueur A liqueur is a sweet alcoholic beverage, often flavoured with fruits, herbs, spices, flowers, seeds, roots, plants, barks, and sometimes cream. ... Depending on the capitalization, Vin can refer to any of the following: Vin = input voltage (an alternative form for Vin) Old European Script A diminutive of the name Vincent, as in: Vin Diesel Vin Scully The name of a character from the video games Jak II and Jak 3: Vin... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of the juice of fruits, usually grapes. ...

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