We listened to the stories in the newest episode Tasty Memories with Caius Merşa from Timisoara, the man who imported the concept of soup bar to Romania. We talked about soups, pastries, but also about Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023. The podcast can be listened to on all audio streaming platforms or directly here: What does […]
"Next weekend I'm going to visualize people's reaction to this beetroot soup"
"Next weekend I'm going to see people's reaction to this beetroot soup which, mind you, it looks like a very boring beetroot soup, but I'm telling you, it's amazingly tasty. I was pleasantly impressed with the final product and if it will be appreciated inside this festival about Via Transilvanica by customers, it will enter [...]
How Cuban Rum Acacia Flower Jam Came To Be
We started the new season of Amintiri Gustoase, the only Romanian gastronomic podcast, part of Digital Chronicles. The first guest comes from Totești. Paula Bora tells how she went from wild poppy petal jam to ginger lemon dandelion jam or acacia flower jam with Cuban rum. […]
Is there or isn't food specific to Resisi?"
I had the pleasure of discovering a very good, even surprising restaurant in Reșita. It's not just preconceived notions about smaller cities in the country, but especially, later proven fact, supply chain deficiencies in these areas. I discovered Chef Robert Dragoescu from Moft Resita and after [...]
What's the story with the brandy cake
What's the story with the brandy cake? A question to which I kept looking for an answer, and the appearance of Alina Muntele in the Cronicari Digitali podcast, at Amintiri Gustoase, helped me find the answer. "It's a mousse cake with brandy, more precisely with palinca. They are a little different, one is more aromatic, one is less aromatic, [...]
Why do traditional restaurants have the same menu?
In the last Cronicari Digitali podcast, at Amintiri Gustoase, we had a very open discussion about what is happening in our HoReCa. My interlocutor was Paul Siserman, whom I asked directly: Why do traditional restaurants have the same menu? "They have the same menu because they have the same school or they don't have any [...]
"I don't know if it's the fault of the customer who comes and orders the belly soup in a Trattoria or it's the fault of the person with the Trattoria for putting it on the menu"
This week I met the man behind @foodofbucharest, Cristi Dandeș, in the Cronicari Digitali podcast, for Tasty Memories. We talked about how Romanian cuisine has changed, since he became a keen observer of it, how HoReCa looks today, what impresses him when he arrives in a restaurant and why many menus are not related to the format [...]
Brands Vs. Influences - how Cristian China-Birta sees the "fight".
Cristian China-Birta was my guest in the Amintiri Gutoase column, from the Cronicari Digitali podcast. If we caught an expert in all things online, we took the opportunity to understand how social media works for brands, what makes an influencer good and bad, and what we do with all the hate speech in […]
How versatile the burger is and what are the most surprising combinations
It was the Burgerfest weekend and before we went to the tasting, we sat for stories, in the Cronicari Digitali podcast, with Dragoș Gurăroșie, the organizer of the festival. I sought to find out from him how Romanians view the burger, which are the best combinations and if the burger with halloumi is a burger. An answer came to the last question [...]
Do we have a cult of wine, like the French?
In Amintiri Gustoase, the column from the podcast Cronicari Digitali that I produce every Friday, I invited Ioan T. Morar. We didn't just talk about the food, especially since he's a wine lover who also knows how to read its full story in a glass. "I think we will have the cult of wine in the moment [...]
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