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Eating and drinking

Eating and drinking, two home specialties. The Romanian cuisine is very diverse, based especially on meat (pork, beef and chicken), vegetables and fruit dishes. Every meal can be accompanied by Romanian assortments of fine wines and traditional plum brandy.

Danube Delta

The Danube Delta is a heaven of birds and fish.

The Danube Delta is a heaven of birds and fish. It is famed not only for its beauty, which is unique in Europe and in the world, but also for the fish dishes prepared here. Certain sorts of fish, that exist only in the delta or that migrate from the Black Sea into the delta at certain moments of the year, are known for their fine taste, and this is also due to the skill with which the locals prepare them. The traveler will undoubtedly remember the extraordinary taste of the fisherman's soup, no match of which can be prepared elsewhere.

Typical Transylvanian

For a foreigner to realize what the typical Transylvanian likes to eat

For a foreigner to realize what the typical Transylvanian likes to eat, he should think of the taste of a piece of smoked lard or bacon eaten with an onion and bread fresh from the oven, together with a glass of palinca (strong prune brandy).

Oltenian specific dishes

Oltenian specific dishes are especially fond of spicy, peppery meals. The usually simple Oltenian cuisine is always lavishly seasoned with horseradish, pepper, and chilli pepper. Oltenian sausages are famous. They are made from equal amounts of beef and pork chopped finely with a knife and mixed with garlic, pepper and salt, the paste being then stuffed into sheep guts. Then the sausages are smoked for two hours. To anyone who has a sound gallbladder the Oltenian sausages are a genuine delight.

Wallachian cuisine

Wallachian cuisine is influenced by the French gastronomy

Wallachian cuisine is influenced by the French gastronomy. Thus, besides the traditional dishes based on vegetables and meat, well known and appreciated are the bors made from sorrel, from nettles, beans, mushrooms or chicken. Fried or broiled Danube mackerel is a dainty dish appreciated both by locals and their neighbours in the other provinces of Romania. In Wallachia people also like dried prune stew or prune and meat stew. Cheese or pumpkin pie is often eaten here, notably in winter.