Consideraţii preliminare privind alimentaţia cotidiană din Ţara Bârsei
The Daily Food

Summary/Abstract: The team of researchers from Brasov County Center for Preserving and Promoting Traditional Culture that I am part of, undertook an ample campaign of investigations in the villages of Tara Barsei area. Its purpose was to prospect and to collect data about nutrition and traditional cooking, both in the past and the present. The history of nutrition identifies its stages and its main components with the mankind’s history. The nutrition depended, many years, on the environment, on the climatic conditions, on the communities’ social and economical structure, on the spiritual beliefs that influenced and dimensioned the specific connotations and significances. The progress of science and of technique is obvious everywhere and the former times lifestyle is different from the contemporary one; the difference is also noticeable in the past nutritional system and the present one. The food is artificially enriched nowadays, and the people’s malnutrition effects are noticeable in their poorer and poorer health. The nutrition in former times was of different categories and quantities, depending on the historic and social conditions, from the vegetal-animal types of food from the past, to the mixed foods from the present. The meals are more plentiful nowadays, but they keep the specific traditional character. The Romanian cuisine is unanimously recognized for its well-known food that made us famous all over the world. The visitors take with them when they leave the country the taste of the traditional Romanian food, served with the well-known hospitality, a gesture which adds the food that unforgettable “something”.

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