About Romanian Gastronomy Romanian cuisine is a diverse blend of different dishes from several traditions with which it has come into contact during its long history, but it also maintains its own character. Gastronomy of Romania has been greatly influenced...
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About Romanian Gastronomy Romanian cuisine is a diverse blend of different dishes from several traditions with which it has come into contact during its long history, but it also maintains its own character. Gastronomy of Romania has been greatly influenced by the Ottoman cuisine, but also includes influences from the cuisines of other neighbors, such as the Germans, Hungarins, Serbians and Hungarians.With this, we can consider that the era of medieval, traditional cuisine was over and the modern Romanian cuisine begins. In the same year the young Miclescu couple went on their honeymoon – 1880, the first Romanian cookbook with Latin characters was printed. Entitled The Good Housewife. A Practical Cookbook, it was written by Mrs. Col. Ecaterina Steriad (nee Malaxa). We don’t know too much about the author, other than she was quite young (her husband, Director of the Royal Residence, was born in 1849). Printing cookbooks is the most important vehicle of “democratizing” Romanian gastronom
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