The Art of Romanian Cooking

By Galia Sperber

Book Overview

An excellent introduction to an inventive style of cooking, with over 200 recipes carefully explained for the home cook.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565549295
• ISBN13: 9781565549296
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Deceiving Title

As a Romanian I was excited to stumble upon this book thinking it would be great to have classic Romanian recipes in English passed on to my non-Romanian educated children. Upon a quick initial skimming through it I find it a Big disappointment! It contains some basic over simplified and modernized recipes. I do not cook this way nor do I know anyone who does. Romanian? Maybe. Possible. I don’t think the non-Romanian recipes given have a place in this book, especially as titled, and yet the specific traditional recipes are missing. I find this somewhat offensive to the Romanian cuisine. The recipes read as simplified summaries omitting steps. Some of the ingredients mentioned are, imo, questionable as to the reason: translation or availability, as the end result would not be the right consistency and flavor. I do intend to make some recipes as written out of curiosity. Please, when you read “chopped “ as for onion and such, think about “finely diced “ or at least “diced”. Makes a big difference for flavor, texture and presentation.