Cooking and Cultural Trip to Romania
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About Tour
Come to Romania to enjoy the real life of this beautiful country. You’ll meet local people, have the chance to see and feel how they live, what they cook. Romania is an interesting country. We are at the Eastern border of Europe, having in our cuisine influences from the Orient but also Western ones. For example, you will find here the famous Mediterranean “sarma” (to be found in Turkey and Greece) but in a Romanian version. This means that we do not use vine leaves, but sour cabbage instead; we do not fill it with rice, but with pork meat; it is not an appetizer, but a main course and we can tell that the taste is wonderful! Come and meet our mixed culture, our orthodox world and our pre-Christian traditions.
You’ll receive a Romanian cookbook in English with recipes that you will cook yourself and we guarantee you will not have the same food twice in your meals. You’ll visit three most important regions in Romania and enjoy one full day in each region with the locals.
Arrival in Romania
Visite comprese:
- Arrival in Bucharest,
- Welcome cocktail, briefing, dinner
- Check-in.
Pasti compresi:
- Dinner
Discover the European capital of culture in 2007
Visite comprese:
- Short sightseeing of Bucharest
- Departure to Sibiu
- See the most beautiful orthodox monastery in Wallachia, Curtea de Arges monastery.
- Short city tour of Sibiu, an important cultural center in Romania, which was chosen to be the European capital of culture in 2007.
- Dinner and accommodation.
Pasti compresi:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Your first encounter with the local life
Visite comprese:
- Take part at the orthodox service in the village.
- Take part at the cooking process itself. You will be divided in 2 teams, each team will have to go to a hostess and cook a menu, different from each other. After the service, each team will go and eat what the others have cooked. You’ll learn how to make:
- - Dumplings soup/ Noodles soup
- - Eggplant Salad / Baked peppers salad
- - Romanian stew / Ragout
- - Romanian cheese pie/ Crunchies
- Paint icons on glass
- Return to Sibiu
- Light dinner
Pasti compresi:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
Let's go to Bucovina
Visite comprese:
- Depart early in the morning
- Reach the Northern region of Romania called Bucovina, over Cluj and Bistrita,
- Have the chance to visit at least one of the famous UNESCO painted monasteries from 16th century.
- Dinner and check-in.
Pasti compresi:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Learning how to cook local food
Visite comprese:
- Go to a local family and learn how to cook local food. You will cook:
- - Mushroom soup/ Local chicken soup with garlic
- - The famous “sarmale”/ Chicken with sour cream
- - 2 different local cakes “papanasi” (a kind of donuts) and “poale in briu”
- Swap and taste what the others have cooked for you.
- Learn how to paint the famous Easter eggs from Bucovina.
Pasti compresi:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
Head back to the Southern Romania
Visite comprese:
- Head back to the Southern Romania, over Bicaz Gorge
- Visit the famous UNESCO citadel in Transylvania, Sighisoara,
- Reach the Brasov region.
- Visit Brasov with its famous Black Church.
- Arrive to our hostesses.
Pasti compresi:
- Breakfast
A new cooking lesson
Visite comprese:
Today you’ll learn how to cook:
- Meatballs in soup and a special salad (salata a la boef)
- A special dish based on fish (saramura de peste) with corn mush and “plachie de peste” another dish based on fish
- Famous local cake (cozonac) and Romanian pancakes with different fillings. In the afternoon we’ll visit the Dracula Castle.
Pasti compresi:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
Get some experience of a professional chef
Visite comprese:
- Departure to Bucharest, through Sinaia
- Stop to visit the Peles Castle.
- Visit the kitchen of the most famous Restaurant in Bucharest - Jaristea, and get some experience of a professional chef.
- Dinner.
Pasti compresi:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Departure home
Visite comprese:
- Sightseeing of Bucharest
- Depart to the airport
- Fly back home.
Pasti compresi:
- Breakfast
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