Lamb meat is pretty much the highlight of any Easter dinner, so we thought we’d look for a couple of recipes and recommendations from some of the most popular chefs in Romania. Whether you’d like to try out something completelu new or a slightly different reinterpretation of a traditional recipe, we believe we’ve managed to […]
While it is not (yet?) a method used on a large scale, the roots of sous-vide cooking are already deep in history. Sir Benjamin Thompson, one of the pioneers of thermodynamics, was the first to talk about low temperature cooking. It was in 1799, while he was experimenting with the effects of a hot air […]
Since we already got to write about some pizza fun facts, it’s time to look back at serious aspects as well, since making a pizza can actually be a form of art, with rituals, traditions and clear steps. For instance, in the “home town” of the pizza pie, Naples, the cooks are part of genuine […]
We’ve gotten used to great chefs talking about fine foods, rare ingredients and sharing tips with us about dishes we can barely say out loud. But it wouldn’t be a bad thing to find out from time to time a little bit about the basics, because what we eat on a daily basis isn’t necessarily […]
When we researched our Marsala article we discovered that a lot of people confuse the name of the wine/color with masala, the latter being something completely different. Masala isn’t even a liquid, but at best a paste (vindaloo masala). But what is masala? Well, it’s a concept that we adopted from the Asian culture (the […]
From a nutritional perspective, fast-food is not really the best option. But it’s very likely that almost all of us occasionally sin with a little bit of something from this category. Sometimes we’re hypnotized by the smell, other times it’s simply the most convenient option, it may happen that it’s the only thing that fits […]