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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n"GastroUrban wants to revive old recipes and increase the sense of local social belonging through food. Gastronomy has always been a calling card and one of the main pillars of national\/regional identity. Debates and tastings are accompanied by local artists with personal projects for a multisensory experience. I consider such events extremely necessary because gastronomy - and I don't understand why - although it is culture, it is often unfairly ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have a duty of honor towards the future generation to protect the local heritage and we are obliged to discover old urban legends through the communities of Timisoara, which are waiting to be rediscovered. The culinary recipes revived by the people of Timisoara, accompanied by stories from the past, will spice up the atmosphere and help us bring back to life traditions, customs and unique tastes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Food thus becomes an excellent pretext for socializing and getting to know urban architecture, in tasteful events, with live music, artistic performances and guests who will talk about gastronomic culture," said R\u0103zvan Tempean, the initiator of GastroUrban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who are the guests?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Adriana Babeti<\/strong> he is an emeritus professor at the West University of Timisoara and an associate professor at the University of Bucharest, where he teaches comparative literature; is an editor at Orizont magazine. He coordinated, together with Cornel Ungureanu, the Central European anthologies. Neuroses, dilemmas, utopias (1997) and Central Europe. Memory, Paradise, Apocalypse (1998). Among the published volumes: Femeia \u00een ro\u015fu (1990, together with Mircea Mih\u0103ie\u015f and Mircea Nedelciu, the book has reached its sixth edition and is included in high school literature textbooks); Lost battles. Dimitrie Cantemir, reading strategies (1997); Dilemmas of Central Europe (1998); Arachne and the web (2002); Dandyism. A history (Polirom, 2004); Le Banat: Un Eldorado aux confins (coord., Universit\u00e9 de Paris IV \u2013 Sorbonne, 2007); The Amazons. A story (2013), Dictionary of Central-European Romanian from the 20th century (coordinating, 2022). His volumes have received numerous national prizes, and his work has been awarded with the Order of Chevalier of Arts and Letters of the French Republic, with the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Knight awarded by the Presidency of Romania, with the title of honorary citizen of Timisoara. Also, for her academic and didactic activity, she was rewarded with important national and international awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Otilia HEDESAN<\/strong> is an ethnologist, professor of Romanian Civilization and Culture at the West University of Timi\u0219oara. Since 2015, he coordinates the interdisciplinary center RHeA \u2013 Research Center for Heritage and Cultural Anthropology. She is the author of several volumes or the coordinator of collective volumes that address her topics of interest: Romanian folk mythology, calendar customs, traditional storytelling, the history of Romanian ethnology in the communist and post-socialist period and the Romanian food heritage. Otilia Hede\u0219an has four decades of field experience, during which she did research in Romania (Banat, Bucovina, Oltenia), Serbia (Banat, Timoc, Morava), Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine (Transcarpathia and Bucovina de North).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Caius Ovidiu Mer\u0219a \u2013 <\/strong>he is an artist, a character eager for knowledge, a pragmatic dreamer. A rational anthropologist rather than an empirical ethnographer, a lover of cuisine, its histories, its philosophies... Since 1999, he has been active in the field of hospitality, with the last 10 years dedicated to cooking. Member of the Rhea Research Center of the Western University of Timi\u0219oara and the title of PhD student of the Faculty of Letters, the title of the paper being \u2013 History, Philosophy and Hermeneutics of Romanian Cuisine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cosmin Dragomir<\/strong> - gastronomy journalist, founder of gastroart.ro (the first magazine dedicated to the research of Romanian gastronomic history and hospitality), author of the volume "Curator of Zacusc\u0103 and other Romanian gastronomic stories", co-author of "Dulce Rom\u00e2nie - a history of desserts from us", publisher of old gastronomy books, Eurosomelier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He writes constantly on gastroart.ro, Zile si Nop\u021bi, MindcraftStories.ro, eisberg.ro, Dilema Veche, revistatomis.ro and.amd. He is the moderator of the Amintiri Gustoase by Cronicari Digitali podcast. He is the author and curator of dulceromanie.ro by Dr. Oetker. He has published hundreds of articles, studies, editorials, interviews on culinary topics. Co-organizer of the National Gastronomy and Wine Congress, co-initiator of the National Gastronomy and Wine Day law, organizer of dozens of conferences and debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Awards: Gault & Millau, National Association of Chefs and Confectioners in Tourism, National Association of Travel Journalists, webstock: (2021 \u2013 3rd place Best Company Blog \u2013 Word salad for Eisberg: #simplyfresh<\/a>; 2022 \u2013 2nd place Best Branded Podcasts with #asty memories<\/a> by Digital Chronicles<\/a> & Electrolux<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GastroUrban is a multidisciplinary concept designed to capitalize on the tangible and intangible local gastronomic heritage through a series of events under the umbrella of which gastronomy, debates, music and other arts fit. 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