Reţete culinare cu miresme literare
Culinary Recipes with Literary Flavours

Summary/Abstract: The present paper investigates two volumes of culinary recipes written/gathered by three Romanian literary authors: M. Kogălniceanu, C. Negruzi and Al. O. Teodoreanu. It is about the book 200 de reţete cercate de bucătărie românească şi alte trebi gospodăreşti, published in the middle of the 19th century, and Gastronomice, a volume containing Al. Teodoreanu’s recipes published one hundred years later in “Magazin” journal. The two cooking books offer multiple information about the quality and types of the ingredients, cooking rules and tips, about the habits associated with food serving and their dependence on a historical context, all these details drawing representations of national identity.

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