Irina Georgescu: Tava
Eastern European Baking and Desserts from Romania and Beyond
Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith · Gilly Smith
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Show Notes
Tthis week, Gilly's off on her Zoom travels again, this time to the complex and multi cultural flavours of Romania.
Irina Georgescu has become the voice of Romanian food in the years that she's lived outside it.. She believes that there is no better way to tell the tale of a nation than through its food, and in her latest book, Tava, she unpicks the rich fabric of its political, spiritual and culinary past to understand its present.
Follow Gilly on Substack where you can find a post from her book Taste and the TV Chef about how the Communist regime Irina describes in Romania affected Hungary too. Read the extraordinary and little known story of how entrepreneurial TV producer, Marcel Lissak created a copycat Jamie Oliver to teach Hungary to eat again after the #GoulashRevolution
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