On July 10, at Corks Cozy Wine Bar in Bucharest, a new wine tasting curated by me will take place. Unlike the first edition this year, which took place in the spring, at the event on July 10, the organizers propose five other types of sarmals, discovered by me or other searchers […]
I am launching the Sarmale Collection on December 14 at Cărtureşti Verona
The GastroArt publishing house announces the release of the volume The Sarmale Collector and other gastronomic stories by Cosmin Dragomir, Thursday, December 14, from 6:30 p.m. at Cărturești Verona Bookstore (Str. Str. Pictor Arthur Verona 13-15). The collection of Sarmale and other gastronomic stories is an anthology of articles, editorials and culinary studies published in various media in the period 2017-2023. The volume […]
The sarmale collector by Cosmin Dragomir, available for pre-order
Cosmin Dragomir, one of the best-known culinary journalists from us, announces the pre-order campaign for the following book: The Sarmale Collection and other culinary stories, published by GastroArt. The collection of Sarmale and other gastronomic stories is an anthology of articles, editorials and culinary studies published in various media in the period 2017-2023. The volume also includes […]
Tasting of Fetească and Sarmale
The month of March ends with a special tasting that brings us to the Easter celebration that will take place in April: come and you to a tasting in which we combine 5 wines from the Fetească Neagră variety with 5 types of sarmales, both Romanian and...international . You will be left with some ideas about what [...]
Făgetu... the place where sarmales are made with potatoes (by Mircea Groza)
About 15,000 Slovaks live in Romania. In Bihor and Arad counties are the largest communities. In Sălaj county there are several communities (Huta-Bogdana, Buciumi commune, Marca-Huta in Marca commune, Dealu Corbului, Sâg commune, there are also some hamlets, some with wonderful names, like would be Culcuș or Fufez), most of them being assimilated except for the one from [...]
About the grandmother's crock pot - by Mircea Groza
I was invited to the opening of the exhibition OALA DE SARMALE A BUNICII. A traveling exhibition, collaboration between the Satu Mare County Museum, the National Museum of the "Dimitrie Gusti" Village in Bucharest, the Astra Museum in Sibiu, the Bănățean Village Museum in Timișoara and the County Museum of History and Art in Zalău. As part of the exhibition, pottery pots of various [...]
Sarmale and cabbage a la Cluj, recipes from 1913 - article by Mircea Groza
I have an old book printed in Hungarian in Baia Mare in 1913. Searching through it, I found a recipe for sarmale and also one for "cabbage a la Cluj" (Kolozsvári káposzta). Since we've been talking about sarmales for a while, I thought I'd give you these two recipes, maybe you should try them. In the […]
November 30: National Day of traditional Swedish Sarmalas or how others can
While Swedish meatballs have long been famous (also) in our country thanks to a famous furniture manufacturing company, less well known is the fact that in Sweden sarmales (usually served with brown sauce, along with boiled potatoes and cranberry jam) are, and them, a traditional food that the Swedes are proud of and that [...]
Sarmal and stuffed pepper soups
Stuffed peppers and sarmals are consumed in all areas of the country. Both dishes have countless variations: we generically call stuffed peppers a lot of stuffed vegetables, just as sarmales have countless compositions and vegetable coverings. Both have fasting options, mostly based on rice and mushrooms, but the list of ingredients used continues with an inexhaustible […]
How others know how to celebrate their gastronomy: today the case of sarmals on stamps
As I have few but fixed ideas, today I submit to your attention another approach of some states through which they celebrate their national gastronomy (without worrying that the dishes are influenced by the international or regional recipe). Today - poor. There are, not very many, stamp series with a culinary theme. I don't mean the ones with [...]