Cuisine

WhybinTBWA Australia advertising firm has created a campaign to promote the Sydney International Food Festival that can also be used as a guide for foodies in their travels abroad.

The lamb meat dishes cannot miss from the Romanians' table at Easter time, be it sour soup, haggis, stew or steak, the preparation, however, varying from area to area.

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A noodle, potato soup or a polenta pudding could be among the dishes the housewives may put on the Lent days' table. If we add here a cake with nuts, the menu would be complete, healthy and tasty.

Photo credit: (c) Maria MITRICA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Sister Lucia of Timisoara unveils the secrets of tailoring these less sophisticated, yet delicious meals.

The recipes of cabbage rolls - sarmale - are as numerous as the cooks, while the delicious dishes could be prepared in so many ways that a book could be written with such meals only.

Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

By Takis Theodoropoulos

Fans of ethnic cuisine are constantly seeking out unique tastes. They can now enjoy such in the Ethiopian restaurant in the central Athens district of Kypseli. The restaurant, named “Lalibela” after the Ethiopian city, has been in business since 2000, offering a variety of exotic tastes from the African’s cuisine.

The recognition of the Cypriot cheese "halloumi" as a product of protected designation of origin by the EU has put Nicosia on a collision course  with other EU member states. Cyprus first made an application to secure protected designation of origin (PDO) status for its famous traditional halloumi cheese in July 2014.

Societe Generale Expressbank and the ?Regional Urban Development Fund" AD have granted an 8-year investment loan of over EUR 14 M to Plovdiv-based bread and bakery products manufacturer Simid Agro EOOD under the Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (JESSICA) initiative.

Turkey has introduced new formal criteria for the sweet and syrupy dessert delight baklava, aiming to standardize production of the trademark dessert that is often manufactured with substandard ingredients to cut costs.

The 2,000-strong Lippovan community that is mainly concentrated in the Pisc neighborhood of the eastern city of Braila has preserved for centuries not just the Christian, but also its culinary traditions untainted, passing down from one generation to the other tens of food recipes carrying a profound imprint of this community with Slavic roots.