More than ten years ago, when you only saw a handful of chefs on TV, I realized that there are thousands in the country and that some of them are very good but have no promotion. I looked them up and wrote about them. I have remained friends with many, with some even [...]
Radu Bozocea, expert in intellectual property rights: what we can and cannot register as a trademark in gastronomy
Radu Bozocea has been working since 2002 at Weizmann Ariana & Partners, the industrial property agency with the most trademark applications (over 500) submitted to the European Intellectual Property Office, according to the EUIPO Statistical pack by country 2015-2018. Since 2016, he has been a senior partner of the Bucharest office, and since 2018 permanent counsel of the company's Leiden (Netherlands) office. […]
Florin Dumitrescu (textier.ro): It is a privilege to collaborate with Mircea Groza
Upon the appearance of the new edition of Zămuri, supe, zupe și năcreli, the anthropologist Florin Dumitrescu publishes a review of Mircea Groza's book (GastroArt, 2023). This summer, the anthropologist Florin Dumitrescu ethnographed the markets and fairs in Sălaj. In a large part of this field research, Mircea Groza helped him as a mediator in the discussions with the locals. Here's how […]
Why National Soup Day
On Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, the first edition of an ambitious festival will take place in the commune of Sfântul Gheorghe in Giurgiu (near Bucharest): the National Soup Day. Everything takes place in a picturesque area, on the edge of a lake, surrounded by orchards where participants are awaited with many soups, but not only, live music, [...]
Midnight baker or the night life of an artisan baker: Daniel Ion from Casa del Pan
It's 3:04 when Daniel gets out of the taxi and greets me. I'm waiting for him with a bag with four copies of the Zămuri volume and a liter of palinca, also from Mircea Groza. About half an hour before, I had approached him on WhatsApp to treat me to a coffee. Did. It's ... o'clock […]
Cristina Dumitrașcu: "Romanian cuisine can bring joy anywhere in the world"
More than ten years ago, when you only saw a handful of chefs on TV, I realized that there are thousands in the country and that some of them are very good but have no promotion. I looked them up and wrote about them. I have remained friends with many, with some even [...]
The initiators of the National Day of Gastronomy celebrate, by tradition, at the Casa Timiș Resort
In 2019, together with Cezar Ioan, publisher of vinul.ro and Chef Nico Lontras, we managed to complete a project that aimed to bring added value to the construction of a Romanian gastronomic identity: the Romanian National Gastronomy and Wine Day law was promulgated. The initiative is intended to provide an excuse to celebrate local gastronomy in […]
The Zămuri volume by Mircea Groza, two nominations for European awards
The volume "Zămuri - soups, soups and soups; Transylvanian recipes from old people" by Mircea Groza, published this summer by the GastroArt publishing house, is nominated in two categories at the Gurmand Awards 2023 - The best in the World. The book of gastronomic stories and recipes is nominated in the "Food Heritage book" and "Eastern Europe book" categories. Winners vof […]
Marian Timofti (FNDA): "Slackness, convenience or the lack of notions of quality are an encouragement to the manufacturer's use of cheap ingredients"
The CV of Marian Timofti, the president of the National Federation of Authorized Tasters (FNDA), is so thick that it would take up far too many lines for such a short interview. I asked Marian Timofti about the role of such an institution in the local culinary landscape, about the usefulness of courses for authorized tasters of charcuterie, cheeses, olive oils [...]
Bogdan Vavrița about old Romanian cuisine: "I eat it with pleasure any time, cooking - never ever again; it's not mine"
More than ten years ago, when you only saw a handful of chefs on TV, I realized that there are thousands in the country and that some of them are very good but have no promotion. I looked them up and wrote about them. I have remained friends with many, with some even [...]
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