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            In a socialist advertisement from the early 1970s - with a wording specific to the wooden language of that period - it says the following: "Enjoy the joy of the hours of rest to the fullest at "BUCUR" - restaurant of the Tourism Office of the Municipality of Bucharest, Colonel Poenaru Bordea street no. 2, sector 5 – culinary specialties, wines [...]

Together with Adriana Sohodoleanu and Cezar Ioan, supported by the Association of Romanian Gastronomy Writers*, we initiated a debate, which we want to be broad, about the need to identify, create and promote local gastronomic brands. We believe that the gastronomic promotion of an area is impetuously necessary for the correct development of tourism and local business not only in the industry [...]

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. The main pretext is to discover (or rediscover) local/ethnic urban food and more. Chefs, anthropologists, sociologists, writers, food and wine journalists, entrepreneurs and […]

Well-known publicist and writer, Stelian Tănase tried his skills as a diarist more than once. He published, among others, the volume "LA vs. NY – Jurnal american" (originally published in 1998 at the Polirom Publishing House in Iasi, republished by Humanitas in 2006, in the Stelian Tănase Author Series), a book from the pages of which a lot of poetry transpires, often [...]

I recently revisited Casa Timiș Resort, the place where every year the National Gastronomy and Wine Day of Romania is celebrated, a project initiated together with Cezar Ioan and the chef of the resort's three restaurants, Nico Lontras. And, as always, we discovered even more tourist facilities than in the past. At the House […]

The first Tasty Memories Masterclass will this year be about the Romanian gastronomic identity on the plates (everyday life), but also on screens, as it is translated in social media. On March 11, at ARCUB in Bucharest, gastronomic specialists, chefs, passionate content creators and foodies will deepen, in three distinct sessions, how [...]