The Food and Cooking of Romania and Bulgaria: Ingredients and Traditions in Over 65 Recipes: Traditions, Ingredients, Tastes, Over 65 Recipes, 370 Photographs - Hardcover

Silvena Johan Lauta (Silvena Rowe)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903141753 ISBN 13: 9781903141755

Publisher: Aquamarine, 2010

In this beautiful new book, an enlightening introduction describes the geography, history and vibrant culture of Romania and Bulgaria, including a section on festivals and traditions. An expert guide to all the locally produced ingredients follows. Over 60 recipes then offer an authentic taste of the Romanian and Bulgarian cuisine., The core of the book consists of chapters on Appetizers and side dishes, Vegetarian dishes and salads, Soups and hotpots, Fish, Meat and poultry, and Desserts and baking. Recipes include Thracian Tomato Bake, the classic Bulgarian Shopska Salad, and Spinach fritters as well as Chicken and Thyme Fricasee, a festive dish of Carp Stuffed with Walnuts and Golden Spices, and Babka, the sweet Romanian yeast cake.

About the Author:

Bulgarian-born Silvena Johan Lauta (also known as Silvena Rowe) is an expert in the cuisines of Eastern and Central Europe. Her passion for food stems from her early experience running a family restaurant in Bulgaria, as well as working in a restaurant in the old USSR. She is the culinary brains behind The Baltic restaurant in London. She has worked as a recipe consultant for Marks & Spencer and was recently the food consultant on David Cronenberg's feature film, Eastern Promises. She appears regularly on television and has written for many newspapers and magazines. Silvena has written a number of other books, including Purple Citrus and Sweet Perfume (Hutchinson), Feasts: Food for Sharing From Eastern Europe (Mitchell Beazley), and The Food and Cooking of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (Aquamarine).

• Publisher: Aquamarine
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1903141753
• ISBN 13: 9781903141755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128