BUCATE PASCALE TRADIȚIONALE DIN OLTENIA

In general ritual context generated by the celebration of Easter, the ritual food from Oltenia were cooked both in the pre-Easter period and for the feast days completing the overall picture created by one of the biggest traditional calendar celebrations of the Romanian village and the Christian community from Romania. Thus, eating and preparation of ritual foods contains multi-millenary magic constitute of meaningful and present reality, over time, in the landscape of traditional Romanian culture. Moreover, Oltenia excels in a food variety related to the fasting period of Easter, but especially in ritual food baked and cooked especially for the days of celebration, being part of Romanian spirituality and heritage. The theme proposes a review of the Oltenian culinary specifics, related both to the Easter temporality, but also to the local gastronomic influences and interpenetrations with those of some communities established over time on the ethnographic territories of Oltenia, compiling an inventory of the better known traditional foods from new preparations in this time marked by the sacred Resurrection of the Lord.