1. Romanian Cuisine

2.  The central characteristic of the Romanian cuisine is its great variety. It is a cuisine influenced by repeated waves of different cultures: the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Saxons, the Turks and the Slavic people and of the Hungarian neighbours. All of these influences gradually blended into the varied and delicious Romanian culinary tradition.  The main ingredients used by romanians are meats such pork, chicken, beef and lamb, fish, vegetables, dairy products and fruit.  Quite different types of dishes are sometimes included under a generic term as sour soup, meat stew or salad. Those can be cooked in hundreds of different combinations.  A traditional Romanian meal may include: appetizer, soup, main course and desert.

3.  Wine is the preferred drink, and it has a tradition of over three millennia. The Romanian wine is currently the world's 9th largest wine producer.  Romania is the world’s second largest plum producer and as much as 75% of Romania's plum production is processed into the famous palinca, a plum brandy obtained through one or more distillation steps. Palinca is a traditional appetizer.

4. SOUPS and SOUR SOUPS Clear dumpling soup with chicken broth Clear noodle soup with chicken broth Vegetable sour soup, with or without meat

5. Tripe sour soup Meatball sour soup soup Fish soup (specific style of the Danube Delta)

6. MAIN COURSES MAIN COURSES Minced boiled vegetables with meat mayonnaise and a dash of mustard Roasted and peeled eggplant, chopped onion, salt, mixed with oil or mayonnaise Vegetable stew or cooked vegetable salad

7. Stuffed bell peppers Polenta with cheese and cream Stuffed cabbage rolls

8. Lamb haggis made of minced organs Polenta with carp in brine Grilled minced-meat rolls Garlicky sausage Pork fat Potatoe stew with pork

9. DESSERTS Thin pancakes filled with chocolate, white cheese or jam. Papanasi A kind of doughnut made from a mixture of sweet cheese, eggs, and semolina, boiled or fried. Romanian potatoe pie

10. Traditional holiday sweet bread filled with walnuts, poppy seeds or cream cheese Crumb in milk with fruits Bird's milk vanilla custard garnished with "floating islands" of whipped egg whites Mixed with sugar and walnuts often decorated with candy and icing sugar often decorated with candy and icing sugar