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Obiceiuri, practici de preparare şi gusturi alimentare în zona Aradului
Traditional gastronomy in the Arad area

Author(s): Elena Rodica Colta
Subject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, Tourism
Published by: ASTRA Museum
Keywords: customs; practices; food technologies; Central European flavour

Summary/Abstract: An important moment in human history was marked by the process of transforming raw food into cooked or roasted one. Hence, every nation has created its own consumer food practices and rules, its own food philosophy. Focusing on the habits, tastes and food preparation technologies in Arad County, in order to know the culinary tradition of the place and people's attitudes towards food, we are facing a context of a mixture between traditional Romanian, German, Hungarian, Slovak etc. cuisine, a shared vision of food and unitary behaviour. Due to its specificity, this has led us to a central European food model, with certain consumption habits and menus containing fatty and sweet soups, sauces or stewed schnitzels, cakes, creams, etc., suggesting the variety of local tastes in comparison to those originating from Southern Romania and the Balkans.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2015
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 169-188
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Romanian