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  • Romania’s gastronomical ambassadors

    Romania’s gastronomical ambassadors


    This is a pastry product filled with a mixture of salt cheese, eggs and yoghourt. Its sheets are made of dough rolled and placed in a spiral form in round baking pans. This is a delicious soft-crispy product with soft filling due to the mixture of eggs and yoghourt poured on top of it unlike other similar products which are crispy with a slightly frail crust. Another difference from other similar products of this kind is the use of non-frozen dough, which is actually freshly-made for every baking pan.


    This product is known as the Dobrudjan pie, a very popular product in south-eastern Romania, which has recently gained European recognition and protection through the system of the EU register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (PGI). The moves in this respect kicked off in 2017, a year when the Traditional Moesis Association had been set up with a view to promoting the traditional Romanian product and producers but also the identity construction of the Romanian products both on the interior and external markets.


    The Dobrudjan Pie is completing the list, not very long for the time being, of Romanian food products recognized until now through the European quality systems. The list starts with the Topoloveni plum jam and also includes the Sibiu Salami, the Smoked Bighead Carp, the Smoked Danube Mackerel, the Plescoi sausages, the


    Telemea of Ibanesti, a sort of brined white cheese, all with protected geographical indications (PGI)


    In south-eastern Romania the Dobrudjan pie, is a product, which has always been present on the Romanians festive tables for several hundreds of years now. Like the fortune cookies served on the New Years Eve, the pie boast a century-old tradition and is also served right before the beginning of the Lent, as Paula Vals, head of the Traditional Moesis Association says.


    After a recipe passed down from generation to generation, the pie has been prepared in Dobrudja and only by brides, the second day after the wedding in order to prove to the guests they know how to prepare and bake the finest pie sheet.


    Data show that the steps and procedure to follow in order to achieve the PGI recognition at European level are comprised in the EU Regulations 1151/2012 and a law issued in 2015, setting up some procedures and technical issues, which Ștefan Pădure, chair of the Association for Promoting the Romanian Products has explained to Radio Romania.


    Stefan Padure:”The quality schemes and regulations are the way through which the member states can fund their products through a common agricultural policy where you cannot intervene and support sale and promotion on a single European market. Here is what makes the difference and we can thus explain many things. First off, in order to protect your equivalences on European regulations we must take into accounts five regulations for the making of protected products: 1151 – with protected Geographical indication, protected designations of origin, traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) and mountain products upon which we have regulations for organic and bio products – identical names according to each country. These regulations are applied to all member states. Then there is a b point where we have schemes of national quality. Unfortunately, for Romania there are only two – traditional products and traditional recipes. When they are communicated to the European Commission and are complying with the provision of the 1305 regulations they are producing the same effects as European regulations. And for this reason all the member states are trying to find out as many quality schemes and certify as many national products as possible, because in the member states in order to support farmers and agricultural producers on the market, and help them produce quality products and maintain quality, one needs these umbrella-schemes.”


    At the EU level there are over 1,600 products with protected geographical indication or protected designation of origin. Italy has 317, France 260, Spain 204, followed by Germany, Portugal and Greece with over 100 products each. China a non-EU member, presently boasts 99 products of this kind. Here is again Stefan Padure


    Stefan Padure: “These schemes of Quality with geographical indication are more restrictive at protected designation of origin because you have to take the raw materials and carry out your activities in a delimited area. When it comes to geographical indication you can get the raw material from outside the delimited area. We are presently in an era of globalization and Europenization where the national character is fading away. However, Europe has understood that this local regional character can be kept and this is exactly what is happening by means of these European and national quality schemes. Things are very strict and protected for now”


    Besides food products Romania has registered in the EU Registry of geographical indications also alcoholic drinks, like fruit spirits, known in Romania as Wine Brandy. The Agriculture Ministry is making moves for the registration of the mugwort wine, known in Romania as Vin Pelin.


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  • Decaying landscape

    The place
    is an anthropic lake in the Văcărești neighbourhood, in the south-west of the
    city. Spreading nearly 200 hectares, the lake was originally designed as part
    of the complex engineering works on the river crossing Bucharest, Dâmbovița, and
    was supposed to be part of the flooding defence system designed in the
    communist years.


    Its construction
    required the demolition of one of Bucharest’s most beautiful religious
    buildings, the Văcărești Monastery. The original project went unfinished after
    the fall of the communist regime in Romania in 1989. In the years that
    followed, the area was reclaimed by nature, and turned into a genuine delta-with
    diverse vegetation and animals ranging from birds to fish to foxes, rabbits,
    otters and so on. The Văcărești Delta grew into a stable ecosystem, and a habitat
    for protected species. In 2015, the Văcărești Delta was declared a nature park
    (Văcărești Nature Park)-a protected nature area and the first urban nature park
    in Romania.


    This October
    the Văcărești Nature Park played host to a project entitled Decaying Landscape,
    designed to bring people, nature and art closer together. We talked to the
    project manager and curator Gabriela Mateescu about the organisation of the
    event and the ideas on which it was based:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: Placed in the urban nature scenery of the Văcărești Delta, this
    project called Decaying landscape is a cross-disciplinary artistic
    cooperation and at the same time a research effort resulting in performances, land
    art works and site-specific installations. The event was organised by Nucleus
    0000 Association and co-financed by the Bucharest City Hall via ARCUB, as part
    of a programme entitled Bucharest: open city 2021. Bucharest is a city
    suffocated by concrete. But among the heavy slabs outlining the city, nature
    claims its place. On the site of the long abandoned, communist-era artificial
    lake of Văcărești, an ecosystem has formed over the past 30 years, with no
    human intervention whatsoever, right at the heart of the country’s largest
    urban settlement. Grown into a true delta, an autonomous ecosystem in the
    middle of Bucharest, the Văcărești Park is the right place to contemplate the state
    of nature and the effects of human intervention.


    Condensing an
    entire universe into a micro-space, artists from various fields have deconstructed
    post- and trans-humanist theories in the language of contemporary art. Gabriela
    Mateescu told us more about the participants in the Decaying Landscape
    project:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: On the 24th October, people were invited to walk
    around and discover the works of female artists Roberta Curcă, Mălina Ionescu,
    Gabriela Mateescu, Andreea Medar, Kiki Mihuță, Marina Oprea. Lost in the
    landscape were also the students of a performance workshop called microRave -
    attempts at becoming a landscape, coordinated by Andreea David, Maria
    Baroncea, on music written by Chlorys. A week before the event, we invited
    youth from Bucharest interested in art to come to the Delta for a dance
    performance workshop, taking advantage of the last sunny days of autumn. To help
    the visitors in their search, we put together a map with the GPS coordinates of
    the works, and mounted them at the Delta entrances and among the works. We also
    had 3 guided tours where the public walked the arts route together with the
    artists and the organisers. The installations were collected the next day, to
    keep the area unaltered.


    The artistic
    concept involved a hybrid space-brought to life by both the daily urban excitement
    and by the noises of the delta in the heart of the city. This area was
    temporarily revived in order to plead its own cause-a cultural function, to be
    precise-as the most appropriate place for contemplation, a means to reconnect
    with nature, a possible meditation on the harmful effects of improper human
    intervention on nature. Gabriela Mateescu also gave us some details on the public
    and their responses to the project in the Văcărești Delta:


    Gabriela Mateescu:
    Apart from the regular public of artistic events, we had people simply going
    out for a walk on a sunny day, who thus had an opportunity to see random works
    of art, which they were amazed with and interested in. And their curiosity was met
    by the explanations given by the artists and the project team. (tr. A.M. Popescu)

  • Decaying landscape

    The place
    is an anthropic lake in the Văcărești neighbourhood, in the south-west of the
    city. Spreading nearly 200 hectares, the lake was originally designed as part
    of the complex engineering works on the river crossing Bucharest, Dâmbovița, and
    was supposed to be part of the flooding defence system designed in the
    communist years.


    Its construction
    required the demolition of one of Bucharest’s most beautiful religious
    buildings, the Văcărești Monastery. The original project went unfinished after
    the fall of the communist regime in Romania in 1989. In the years that
    followed, the area was reclaimed by nature, and turned into a genuine delta-with
    diverse vegetation and animals ranging from birds to fish to foxes, rabbits,
    otters and so on. The Văcărești Delta grew into a stable ecosystem, and a habitat
    for protected species. In 2015, the Văcărești Delta was declared a nature park
    (Văcărești Nature Park)-a protected nature area and the first urban nature park
    in Romania.


    This October
    the Văcărești Nature Park played host to a project entitled Decaying Landscape,
    designed to bring people, nature and art closer together. We talked to the
    project manager and curator Gabriela Mateescu about the organisation of the
    event and the ideas on which it was based:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: Placed in the urban nature scenery of the Văcărești Delta, this
    project called Decaying landscape is a cross-disciplinary artistic
    cooperation and at the same time a research effort resulting in performances, land
    art works and site-specific installations. The event was organised by Nucleus
    0000 Association and co-financed by the Bucharest City Hall via ARCUB, as part
    of a programme entitled Bucharest: open city 2021. Bucharest is a city
    suffocated by concrete. But among the heavy slabs outlining the city, nature
    claims its place. On the site of the long abandoned, communist-era artificial
    lake of Văcărești, an ecosystem has formed over the past 30 years, with no
    human intervention whatsoever, right at the heart of the country’s largest
    urban settlement. Grown into a true delta, an autonomous ecosystem in the
    middle of Bucharest, the Văcărești Park is the right place to contemplate the state
    of nature and the effects of human intervention.


    Condensing an
    entire universe into a micro-space, artists from various fields have deconstructed
    post- and trans-humanist theories in the language of contemporary art. Gabriela
    Mateescu told us more about the participants in the Decaying Landscape
    project:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: On the 24th October, people were invited to walk
    around and discover the works of female artists Roberta Curcă, Mălina Ionescu,
    Gabriela Mateescu, Andreea Medar, Kiki Mihuță, Marina Oprea. Lost in the
    landscape were also the students of a performance workshop called microRave -
    attempts at becoming a landscape, coordinated by Andreea David, Maria
    Baroncea, on music written by Chlorys. A week before the event, we invited
    youth from Bucharest interested in art to come to the Delta for a dance
    performance workshop, taking advantage of the last sunny days of autumn. To help
    the visitors in their search, we put together a map with the GPS coordinates of
    the works, and mounted them at the Delta entrances and among the works. We also
    had 3 guided tours where the public walked the arts route together with the
    artists and the organisers. The installations were collected the next day, to
    keep the area unaltered.


    The artistic
    concept involved a hybrid space-brought to life by both the daily urban excitement
    and by the noises of the delta in the heart of the city. This area was
    temporarily revived in order to plead its own cause-a cultural function, to be
    precise-as the most appropriate place for contemplation, a means to reconnect
    with nature, a possible meditation on the harmful effects of improper human
    intervention on nature. Gabriela Mateescu also gave us some details on the public
    and their responses to the project in the Văcărești Delta:


    Gabriela Mateescu:
    Apart from the regular public of artistic events, we had people simply going
    out for a walk on a sunny day, who thus had an opportunity to see random works
    of art, which they were amazed with and interested in. And their curiosity was met
    by the explanations given by the artists and the project team. (tr. A.M. Popescu)

  • Decaying landscape

    The place
    is an anthropic lake in the Văcărești neighbourhood, in the south-west of the
    city. Spreading nearly 200 hectares, the lake was originally designed as part
    of the complex engineering works on the river crossing Bucharest, Dâmbovița, and
    was supposed to be part of the flooding defence system designed in the
    communist years.


    Its construction
    required the demolition of one of Bucharest’s most beautiful religious
    buildings, the Văcărești Monastery. The original project went unfinished after
    the fall of the communist regime in Romania in 1989. In the years that
    followed, the area was reclaimed by nature, and turned into a genuine delta-with
    diverse vegetation and animals ranging from birds to fish to foxes, rabbits,
    otters and so on. The Văcărești Delta grew into a stable ecosystem, and a habitat
    for protected species. In 2015, the Văcărești Delta was declared a nature park
    (Văcărești Nature Park)-a protected nature area and the first urban nature park
    in Romania.


    This October
    the Văcărești Nature Park played host to a project entitled Decaying Landscape,
    designed to bring people, nature and art closer together. We talked to the
    project manager and curator Gabriela Mateescu about the organisation of the
    event and the ideas on which it was based:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: Placed in the urban nature scenery of the Văcărești Delta, this
    project called Decaying landscape is a cross-disciplinary artistic
    cooperation and at the same time a research effort resulting in performances, land
    art works and site-specific installations. The event was organised by Nucleus
    0000 Association and co-financed by the Bucharest City Hall via ARCUB, as part
    of a programme entitled Bucharest: open city 2021. Bucharest is a city
    suffocated by concrete. But among the heavy slabs outlining the city, nature
    claims its place. On the site of the long abandoned, communist-era artificial
    lake of Văcărești, an ecosystem has formed over the past 30 years, with no
    human intervention whatsoever, right at the heart of the country’s largest
    urban settlement. Grown into a true delta, an autonomous ecosystem in the
    middle of Bucharest, the Văcărești Park is the right place to contemplate the state
    of nature and the effects of human intervention.


    Condensing an
    entire universe into a micro-space, artists from various fields have deconstructed
    post- and trans-humanist theories in the language of contemporary art. Gabriela
    Mateescu told us more about the participants in the Decaying Landscape
    project:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: On the 24th October, people were invited to walk
    around and discover the works of female artists Roberta Curcă, Mălina Ionescu,
    Gabriela Mateescu, Andreea Medar, Kiki Mihuță, Marina Oprea. Lost in the
    landscape were also the students of a performance workshop called microRave -
    attempts at becoming a landscape, coordinated by Andreea David, Maria
    Baroncea, on music written by Chlorys. A week before the event, we invited
    youth from Bucharest interested in art to come to the Delta for a dance
    performance workshop, taking advantage of the last sunny days of autumn. To help
    the visitors in their search, we put together a map with the GPS coordinates of
    the works, and mounted them at the Delta entrances and among the works. We also
    had 3 guided tours where the public walked the arts route together with the
    artists and the organisers. The installations were collected the next day, to
    keep the area unaltered.


    The artistic
    concept involved a hybrid space-brought to life by both the daily urban excitement
    and by the noises of the delta in the heart of the city. This area was
    temporarily revived in order to plead its own cause-a cultural function, to be
    precise-as the most appropriate place for contemplation, a means to reconnect
    with nature, a possible meditation on the harmful effects of improper human
    intervention on nature. Gabriela Mateescu also gave us some details on the public
    and their responses to the project in the Văcărești Delta:


    Gabriela Mateescu:
    Apart from the regular public of artistic events, we had people simply going
    out for a walk on a sunny day, who thus had an opportunity to see random works
    of art, which they were amazed with and interested in. And their curiosity was met
    by the explanations given by the artists and the project team. (tr. A.M. Popescu)

  • Decaying Landscape

    Decaying Landscape

    The place
    is an anthropic lake in the Văcărești neighbourhood, in the south-west of the
    city. Spreading nearly 200 hectares, the lake was originally designed as part
    of the complex engineering works on the river crossing Bucharest, Dâmbovița, and
    was supposed to be part of the flooding defence system designed in the
    communist years.


    Its construction
    required the demolition of one of Bucharest’s most beautiful religious
    buildings, the Văcărești Monastery. The original project went unfinished after
    the fall of the communist regime in Romania in 1989. In the years that
    followed, the area was reclaimed by nature, and turned into a genuine delta-with
    diverse vegetation and animals ranging from birds to fish to foxes, rabbits,
    otters and so on. The Văcărești Delta grew into a stable ecosystem, and a habitat
    for protected species. In 2015, the Văcărești Delta was declared a nature park
    (Văcărești Nature Park)-a protected nature area and the first urban nature park
    in Romania.


    This October
    the Văcărești Nature Park played host to a project entitled Decaying Landscape,
    designed to bring people, nature and art closer together. We talked to the
    project manager and curator Gabriela Mateescu about the organisation of the
    event and the ideas on which it was based:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: Placed in the urban nature scenery of the Văcărești Delta, this
    project called Decaying landscape is a cross-disciplinary artistic
    cooperation and at the same time a research effort resulting in performances, land
    art works and site-specific installations. The event was organised by Nucleus
    0000 Association and co-financed by the Bucharest City Hall via ARCUB, as part
    of a programme entitled Bucharest: open city 2021. Bucharest is a city
    suffocated by concrete. But among the heavy slabs outlining the city, nature
    claims its place. On the site of the long abandoned, communist-era artificial
    lake of Văcărești, an ecosystem has formed over the past 30 years, with no
    human intervention whatsoever, right at the heart of the country’s largest
    urban settlement. Grown into a true delta, an autonomous ecosystem in the
    middle of Bucharest, the Văcărești Park is the right place to contemplate the state
    of nature and the effects of human intervention.


    Condensing an
    entire universe into a micro-space, artists from various fields have deconstructed
    post- and trans-humanist theories in the language of contemporary art. Gabriela
    Mateescu told us more about the participants in the Decaying Landscape
    project:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: On the 24th October, people were invited to walk
    around and discover the works of female artists Roberta Curcă, Mălina Ionescu,
    Gabriela Mateescu, Andreea Medar, Kiki Mihuță, Marina Oprea. Lost in the
    landscape were also the students of a performance workshop called microRave -
    attempts at becoming a landscape, coordinated by Andreea David, Maria
    Baroncea, on music written by Chlorys. A week before the event, we invited
    youth from Bucharest interested in art to come to the Delta for a dance
    performance workshop, taking advantage of the last sunny days of autumn. To help
    the visitors in their search, we put together a map with the GPS coordinates of
    the works, and mounted them at the Delta entrances and among the works. We also
    had 3 guided tours where the public walked the arts route together with the
    artists and the organisers. The installations were collected the next day, to
    keep the area unaltered.


    The artistic
    concept involved a hybrid space-brought to life by both the daily urban excitement
    and by the noises of the delta in the heart of the city. This area was
    temporarily revived in order to plead its own cause-a cultural function, to be
    precise-as the most appropriate place for contemplation, a means to reconnect
    with nature, a possible meditation on the harmful effects of improper human
    intervention on nature. Gabriela Mateescu also gave us some details on the public
    and their responses to the project in the Văcărești Delta:


    Gabriela Mateescu:
    Apart from the regular public of artistic events, we had people simply going
    out for a walk on a sunny day, who thus had an opportunity to see random works
    of art, which they were amazed with and interested in. And their curiosity was met
    by the explanations given by the artists and the project team. (tr. A.M. Popescu)

  • Decaying Landscape

    Decaying Landscape

    The place
    is an anthropic lake in the Văcărești neighbourhood, in the south-west of the
    city. Spreading nearly 200 hectares, the lake was originally designed as part
    of the complex engineering works on the river crossing Bucharest, Dâmbovița, and
    was supposed to be part of the flooding defence system designed in the
    communist years.


    Its construction
    required the demolition of one of Bucharest’s most beautiful religious
    buildings, the Văcărești Monastery. The original project went unfinished after
    the fall of the communist regime in Romania in 1989. In the years that
    followed, the area was reclaimed by nature, and turned into a genuine delta-with
    diverse vegetation and animals ranging from birds to fish to foxes, rabbits,
    otters and so on. The Văcărești Delta grew into a stable ecosystem, and a habitat
    for protected species. In 2015, the Văcărești Delta was declared a nature park
    (Văcărești Nature Park)-a protected nature area and the first urban nature park
    in Romania.


    This October
    the Văcărești Nature Park played host to a project entitled Decaying Landscape,
    designed to bring people, nature and art closer together. We talked to the
    project manager and curator Gabriela Mateescu about the organisation of the
    event and the ideas on which it was based:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: Placed in the urban nature scenery of the Văcărești Delta, this
    project called Decaying landscape is a cross-disciplinary artistic
    cooperation and at the same time a research effort resulting in performances, land
    art works and site-specific installations. The event was organised by Nucleus
    0000 Association and co-financed by the Bucharest City Hall via ARCUB, as part
    of a programme entitled Bucharest: open city 2021. Bucharest is a city
    suffocated by concrete. But among the heavy slabs outlining the city, nature
    claims its place. On the site of the long abandoned, communist-era artificial
    lake of Văcărești, an ecosystem has formed over the past 30 years, with no
    human intervention whatsoever, right at the heart of the country’s largest
    urban settlement. Grown into a true delta, an autonomous ecosystem in the
    middle of Bucharest, the Văcărești Park is the right place to contemplate the state
    of nature and the effects of human intervention.


    Condensing an
    entire universe into a micro-space, artists from various fields have deconstructed
    post- and trans-humanist theories in the language of contemporary art. Gabriela
    Mateescu told us more about the participants in the Decaying Landscape
    project:


    Gabriela
    Mateescu: On the 24th October, people were invited to walk
    around and discover the works of female artists Roberta Curcă, Mălina Ionescu,
    Gabriela Mateescu, Andreea Medar, Kiki Mihuță, Marina Oprea. Lost in the
    landscape were also the students of a performance workshop called microRave -
    attempts at becoming a landscape, coordinated by Andreea David, Maria
    Baroncea, on music written by Chlorys. A week before the event, we invited
    youth from Bucharest interested in art to come to the Delta for a dance
    performance workshop, taking advantage of the last sunny days of autumn. To help
    the visitors in their search, we put together a map with the GPS coordinates of
    the works, and mounted them at the Delta entrances and among the works. We also
    had 3 guided tours where the public walked the arts route together with the
    artists and the organisers. The installations were collected the next day, to
    keep the area unaltered.


    The artistic
    concept involved a hybrid space-brought to life by both the daily urban excitement
    and by the noises of the delta in the heart of the city. This area was
    temporarily revived in order to plead its own cause-a cultural function, to be
    precise-as the most appropriate place for contemplation, a means to reconnect
    with nature, a possible meditation on the harmful effects of improper human
    intervention on nature. Gabriela Mateescu also gave us some details on the public
    and their responses to the project in the Văcărești Delta:


    Gabriela Mateescu:
    Apart from the regular public of artistic events, we had people simply going
    out for a walk on a sunny day, who thus had an opportunity to see random works
    of art, which they were amazed with and interested in. And their curiosity was met
    by the explanations given by the artists and the project team. (tr. A.M. Popescu)