Cuisine
Vintage pantry stocks of vegetable spread and jams preserve the flavor of childhood
Tomato juice, salt & vinegar cucumbers and peppers, assorted pickles, sauerkraut, bouillon-ready vegetables, vegetable spread, jams and compotes of all kinds - these are all the food stocks that usually fill the pantry of every diligent housewife. Yet some of them have taken home canning for winter and cooking in general to art refinement.
Bocuse d'Or competing chefs' inspiration: 'Chicken or the egg' dilemma, goulash, origami
AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: On the second and final day of the prestigious Bocuse d'Or cooking competition, the jury who is to decide on the winner had to handle an explosion of fantasy: for their guinea fowl platter, Germany's team took inspiration from the ancestral dilemma "What came first - the egg or the chicken?", team Hungary featured in the finest gourmet competit
AGERPRES launches special news stream NEWS WITH TASTE
The Romanian National News Agency AGERPRES launches its special news stream NEWS WITH TASTE on Monday; it is available to all subscribers, and it will be promoted on the dedicated section of www.agerpres.ro/english.
Bulgarian Customs Prevent Smuggling of Two Million European Eels
Customs officers at Sofia International Airport have thwarted an attempt to smuggle into Bulgaria two million European baby eels, a critically endangered species.
Two Chinese nationals travelling from Madrid to Sofia have tried to smuggle the eels packed up into eight styrofoam containers and declared as food items, The National Customs Agency said in a statement on Thursday.
Tracing the foods of the early Islamic world
The holder of the 'Nobel Prize of cookbooks' for his book 'Seljuk Cuisine,' Muhammed Ömür Akkor has finished his long-termresearch book offering recipes from regions populated by Islamic cultures during the 7th-12th centuries Turkish researcher and writer Muhammed Ömür Akkor, whose book "Seljuk Cuisine" was recently selected as one of the best food books in the Gourmand Cookbook Awards,
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Fifty days & ways with 'Hamsi'
?Hamsi? is a way of life for Black Sea people. Known as the European anchovy, Engraulis encrasicolus to be precise, it is the staple protein during winter months for all of the people living near the shores of the Black Sea coast in Turkey.
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Maramures County's guest houses, motels, hotels fully booked for New Year's holiday
Guest houses, motels and hotels of the alpine spas in northern Romania's Maramures are fully booked for the New Year's night and the other three days to come of the winter holiday.
Lush and local
“What makes food “local?” And why does “the local” matter when we speak of food?” This was how Melissa Caldwell, the editor of Gastronomica, reflected on the relationship between the locality of food, the sizzling hot topic of the culinary circles.
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Istanbul breakfast junkies’ 119-year-old shrine loses battle against gentrification
Pando Kaymak, the iconic breakfast shop in Istanbulâs BeÅiktaÅ neighborhood, with the fame of its buttery clotted cream and honey transmitted generation to generation, is now closing its doors after 119 years of activity.
Istanbul breakfast junkies’ 119-year-old shrine loses battle against rampant gentrification
Pando Kaymak, the iconic breakfast shop in Istanbulâs BeÅiktaÅ neighborhood, with the fame of its buttery clotted cream and honey transmitted generation to generation, is now closing its doors after 119 years of activity.