This week, in the Cronicari Digitali podcast, at Amintiri Gustoase, I'm talking about food with Chef Nico Lontras. I asked Nico Lontras what fine dining means: "Most people think that a fine dining restaurant goes into this area of very small portions. Yes, it is very true, they are small portions, but there are restaurants where [...]
"The taste that develops in a dough that is leavened for 24 hours, 48 hours, sometimes even 72 hours has nothing to do with a bread that is made on the fly within two hours from kneading to baking"
Artisanal bread costs more, but it also looks better and healthier. I looked for the explanations at Amintiri Gustoase, in the Cronicari Digitali podcast, together with Valentina Ion. "There are certain studies that show that bread that is leavened more slowly is more digestible, it is received differently by the body. It deactivates some substances called itates [...]
Chef Cezar Munteanu: "The best steak is the one cooked simply"
At the end of the fast and in preparation for Easter, at Amintiri Gustoase, in the Cronicari Digitali podcast, I talked with Chef Cezar Munteanu about how to make the best holiday dishes and I received some practical tips for future barbecues, which I share with you here. "The best steak is the one cooked [...]
Is there health without avocado, chia and goji?
Is there health without avocado, chia and goji? "Those who are not sufficiently documented, informed, have no culinary culture or in the field of nutrition, immediately resort to copying what the Americans do", Cristian Mărgărit told me, in the Cronicari Digitali podcast. I sought to find out, in the discussion held with the nutritionist and fitness expert [...]
DulceRomanie.ro or the History of Sweets in Romania – a project launched by Dr. Oetker
Dr. Oetker launched, in March, DulceRomanie.ro, probably the largest and most ambitious project to capitalize on Romanian tangible and intangible gastronomic heritage – a multimedia and multidisciplinary history of Romanian desserts from ancient times to today. Currently, on DulceRomanie.ro more than 50 extensive articles are published about the histories [...]
How I became a juror in wine competitions
About 7-8 years ago, over a beer (several), I met Cezar Ioan, the man who would become one of my best friends. In 2019, the GastroArt publishing house printed his volume "Connaisseur without ifose - everything you want to know about wine and something more". I wrote back then, on the cover [...]
Conversations #farăifose – the first mail to Cezar Ioan
At the end of last year together with Cezar Ioan we proposed to write a book of "letters", emails, conversations, banter between the two of us. On December 22, when Cezar was in Sighetul Marmații, I wrote him the first email. Then we got on with others. Today, 18.03.2020 we are isolated in our houses because of this damn virus. Maybe […]
Sarmales, Dacians and Vikings
You may be familiar with the social media strategy of the Swedish Embassy in Bucharest, which is out of the diplomatic communication patterns. Their statuses attracted tens of thousands of comments. Well, a little while ago, the new ambassador of the Scandinavian country, Her Excellency Ms. Therese Hydén, arrived in our Capital. In his first recorded message and […]
From "La nea Ilie" to Mihai Toader and Alex Petricean
It was a Romanian August 1. A Romanian gastronomic journey from A to Z where Z is influenced by C, G or M or O. ? An unpredictable flow for two consecutive culinary experiences (lunch and dinner), complementary not antagonistic even though they are at opposite poles of kitchen technology. But also a […]
Calculation of the day: How many dimes fit on the Wimbledon trophy (er, a platter)
Well done Simona, well done nation! We are talking here about the opposite of "making fun of trouble" which is "making fun of success". However, we excel in both. There were the anecdotes, there were the benches, the pamphlet, now we have the statuses, the memes, timesnewroman.ro and farazat.ro Yesterday, Simona Halep won Wimbledon. Also yesterday, Wimbledon won, in turn, a champion [...]
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