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Clecle

Comfort food at its best

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 27 maggio 2020

I wasn’t familiar with Romanian food before and I loved what I saw in the book! This is comfort food at its best: if you are a meat and potato type of person you will love what’s on offer. The gammon dish is incredible, my picky children devoured it. I have done several bakes, dips and main dishes and found them to be all straightforward with easily accessible ingredients. My only issue was the recipe on p61 for “Placinta cu carne”. There is no way the dough used on the picture corresponds to the one in the recipe as it looks more doughy than the one proposed. I strongly recommend using more flour than what is stated otherwise it’s very difficult to stretch or alternatively half the filling ingredients as it will leak everywhere and the dough won’t cover it. The dough is more like a cornish pasty in the end (so still very tasty) but doesn’t match the picture as I said.

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Kellie

Beautiful recipes and stories from the heart of Romania

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 9 giugno 2020

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This unfortunate hiatus from real life has had some benefits. One of these is - for me - more time to do something I've sadly neglected - cooking from cookbooks. I had forgotten how much I enjoy marking up a freshly opened book, the spine cracking just a little, with torn bits of paper. Lately I've been cooking through the torn bits of paper thickly scattered throughout Carpathia. Featuring dishes from the "heart of Romania," Carpathia is a loving culinary travel through a rich and varied country; a country with distinct influences from nearby cultures & countries. Irina's beautifully written recipes are intertwined with personal journeys & stories of an ancient place that not many of us have visited. The photographs are just stunning, too. Carpathia's recipes are fairly meaty, but there are a surprising number of vegetable dishes. And ones where meat is present as flavouring not feature. Irina also gives the reader some really intriguing sounding baked goods, as well as pickles and preserves. Oh, and if you, like me, lean on the versatility of polenta, Irina has many very interesting dishes - sweet and savoury - for you to try, as well as using it as a textural ingredient. Our favourite recipe so far is Urzici cu ustoroi - nettle fricassée with garlic flakes & pumpkin seeds (it has a little polenta in it). We used mainly local young spinach topped up with nettles from our own wild patch of garden. Utterly delicious. Very comforting. Easy, too. Very much a book to not only cook from but to read.

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Ren Behan

Enchanting with evocative writing and styling

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 10 agosto 2020

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Carpathia is enchanting and captures so many interesting techniques, influences and flavours from the heart of Romania. It is beautifully set out with chapters on small plates and sharing food, breads, a ‘tangy’ chapter, mains, desserts and a stunning closure with pickles, preserves, compotes and drinks. Irina writes evocatively about her Romanian culture and heritage and the photography and modern, rustic styling is delightful. The recipes can be made with readily-available ingredients; try the Breaded alpine cheese dish with cheddar, for example. It’s simple and incredibly good. The dessert chapter is wonderful too; try the Apricot yoghurt cake with seasonal apricots or use another fruit or a tinned variety. Homely and heartwarming and true to Irina’s style - a stunning account to follow on Instagram, too.

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Martin

A beautiful recipe book with realistic recipes and lovely images of landscapes

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 18 settembre 2021

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The recipes mingle echoes of familiar things with the less known. Many are recognisable in other incarnations (polenta, stews, pies) but in this book they are firmly rooted in traditional ways of preparing (and eating) home-made food. No fast food, no 'chop and throw together' salads, no cutting corners, but no fancy elaboration or unnecessary 'exotic' ingredients either. Just good food. As with everything related to food and eating, what one isn't used to might work or not. Variation and adaptation are wholly possible with the recipes in this book. The food photography looks lovely, but a particular bonus were the beautiful photographic landscape panoramas that are frequent throughout the book. Overall a beautifully presented hardback on good paper with inspirational recipes and images.

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ruby millington

Food from the heart indeed...

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 30 giugno 2020

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Carpathia is Irina Georgescu's first book and features dozens of recipes from her native Romania with chapters covering everything from salads and sharing plates to pickles, main courses and puddings. Producing it has clearly been a huge labour of love and it's my favourite kind of cookery book, punctuated with stories and asides and the author's personality and passion shining through. It's so beautifully-photographed too, that it's hard to know where to start as you just want to eat everything. Carpathia would suit anyone who loves food, from beginner to expert. Many of the dishes are new to me (and I'm a fairly experienced cook and enthusiastic eater), but not so exotic that I'd struggle to source ingredients. And there are enough recipes to make it worthwhile for non meat-eaters too. I've enjoyed it so much I can't wait to visit Romania and sample its culinary delights myself. Highly recommended.

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Reed

Excellent book on the cuisine of this little known region

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 12 dicembre 2020

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While there are now a few books on the food of this general area, this one is well worth having. If there is at
least one great recipe in it, a book is doing well. This has several, and is very enjoyable. Good text, the recipes work and show a different approach to cooking, spicing and eating. Good pictures too, but for me, food first, pictures second. This scores well on both.

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Amazon Customer

Best recipe book this year

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 8 luglio 2020

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I really enjoyed the personal stories that accompanied the fantastic recipes and amazing photos. We have already tried a variety of the recipes but especially enjoyed the stuffed pork loin. Try it for yourself and explore a wonderful world of food.

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Andreea Nistor

Amazing book

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 6 maggio 2020

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As a Romanian I always searched for a cuisine book in english to share with my english speaking friends and family. It's the perfect book with beutiful description and photos of the traditional Romanian cuisine. Love it

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Tudor

A small Romanian masterpiece.

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 24 maggio 2020

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This is one of the most beautiful cook book I ever held in my hands. There are a lot of old, traditional dishes that my grandmother and mother used to cook for us, and now I can share these recipes with my other nationalities friends. The quality of the pictures and colours are stunning. I bought 5 to share them with my friends.

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Alex T

Culinary travel in the middle of lockdown

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 19 marzo 2021

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She was able to describe perfectly our Romanian food, as a Romanian myself I was happy to read this book, she was able to put a smile on my face!
There are not only recipes, there is a nation's culture written nicely in this book.
I recommend this book especially if you intend to travel to Romania, you will know what to order in restaurants.

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