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When you visit orhodox churches it's better not wear shorts,sometimes women are asked to cover their hair too.When you visit "painted monasteries" and if you wear shorts, you are given "a skirt" to cover your legs.
The first day of march the people celebrate the coming of spring. They give each other a little something that you can fasten on your clothes. I forgot the name of these things but i'm sure some romanian that will read this will no doubt help me out. I think it is a very nice thing to do. Even though when i got several of those things we were still having temperatures of around -10 and the city was covered in snow. But it does help to remind you that spring can't be too far off
Its a traditional dish in the Danube Delta and they make it with fish from the Danube and the water is also out of the Danube. Sounds kind of alarming specially when you know about the ecological situation of the river....But actually it tasted good and didnt do me no harm. give it a try
The first time i heard those drummers i didn't know what happened. I had planned to have a leasy lay-in on the sunday morning before christmas. But no chance of that. Apparently it is a romanian christmas tradition. There are drummers and people dressed up who dance to the beat. Since i live in a bloc of appartments between a few other large blocs the sounds echo-ed off the blocs and even when they had long passed you could here the beat of the drums. And there were very frequent appearances. On one day i counted at least 4 different groups...
The countryside is the heart and soul of Romania, where peasant culture remains a strong force and medieval life prevails, as it does nowhere else in Europe. A young American couple, researching ancient traditional villages in Europe for post-graduate studies, recently moved in with a host family in Northern Romania in order to document a culture unique in the world.People are happy to meet foreign visitors, often inviting them into their homes for a meal and conversation. For a true introduction to Romania's traditional villages, consider a home stay. Rates range from $8 to $25 per person including two meals. Rooms are clean and comfortable but some do not have private baths. Most hosts do not speak English.For more information and reservations visit www.antrec.ro - the Website of the agro-tourism organization ANTREC.
One of the most beautiful Romanian Easter traditions is painted eggs. No family can't celebrate Easter without even a few painted eggs in the house. Eggs are painted with a variety of colours, from the traditional paints made from natural things, like vegetables, to the classical chemical paint found ready packed in stores. The nicest eggs can be found in the northern part of Romania, in Maramures by example, where women spend days before Easter painting eggs with thin pencils, to the perfection. The beautiful crafted eggs are a real beauty and it would be hard for me to crack them :) Because this is the tradition in Romania, before eating, in the morning of the Easter Day, members of the family and even at the office in some places, holds each one a painted egg and then one (with the egg on top) says "Chirst has reborn", the other says "True He's reborn" and they knock the eggs and see...
SORCOVA"Sorcova" is a bouquet of coloured paper flowers (see pic) used for New Year's wishes. Children wish to the people a happy New Year while touching them lightly with this bouquet. CAROLSThe most important custom during winter festivals is the carol. On Christmas' Eve only children go caroling. This custom is different from the proper caroling, where only the grown-ups participate. After the 23/24 midnight of December the children go caroling from one house to another. They get sweets, fruit and even money. In some parts of the country there is a custom named "Icon walking" that symbolizes Jesus birth. The real caroling happens on Christmas evening and night. The waits - young and mature people - gather in well-organized groups and they choose a leader. When they are in the yard of a house they perform their repertory to the host. The songs are always accompanied by dance. When they...
Arround the two major winter celebrations - Christmas and New Year's Eve - there are concentrated a series of traditional customs with a great spiritual value for the romanian people. The most of romanian customs are crowded between December 20th and January 8th. Customs comes generally from the traditional occupation of the people - agriculture, wood crafting, mining.STEAUA (The Star)During the Christmas fasting, children prepare cardboard stars, covered with coloured paper. In the center there is the icon of the Birth of Jesus and five bells are in thr corners. The three kids - strolling from house to house - represents the three kings and the carols they are singing are short summaries of the gospels.CAPRA (The Goat)This custom extends from Christmas until the New Year's Eve. The groups of carol singers has the main character one child dressed with fur and wearing a mask with a woden...
On any 'respectable' meal of course the pickles are on the table. Romanian makes pickles from a variety of vegetables: bell pepers, cucumbers, green tomatoes, cauliflower, carrots, water melons (rarely)
As I already told you, romanians are big meat eaters. You will find probably a very low percentage of vegetarians, but this is not what we are talking here now :)On Christmas Day, as well as on Easter, traditional cuisine include a large variety of meat products, half cooked, grilled or boiled, but other half are smoked or fresh combinations of prepared meat.I'm putting a picture of two traditional dishes made from pork (fresh, not cooked), but I'll have to get a culinar dictionary to tell you the english words for those, if there are any :)
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Q: Buna Ziua all! It's the marshmallow/Christmas-tree/asks-too-many-questions guy! Lol! So, I feel I asked about this once but,...
A: Ooops, I didn't mean "dinner" for 2 but, MEALS for 2. :p
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