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Making Mexican tacos with only Romanian ingredients

Ioana Negulescu — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:18:43 +0000

Henri Coandă Airport, 8:30 in the morning, five days of R&D and barely any sleep behind me. The checked bag came in at twenty-eight and a half kilograms instead of…

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🍅 Tom-aah-to: tomato carpaccio with lacto fermented tomato and spruce tip salsa

Ioana Negulescu — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:47:54 +0000

Sweet, salty and delicious. Most certainly a recipe that showcases the tomato in all its beauty.

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Edible fairytale: strawberry, preserved lemon, poppy seed and basil flavoured butter

Ioana Negulescu — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:27:44 +0000

What's better than a meal that starts with bread and butter? upgrade your butter game with this strawberry, preserved lemon, poppy seed, basil and vanilla butter.

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Punk is certainly not dead at Maimuca Restaurant in Bucharest…

Ioana Negulescu — Tue, 10 May 2022 15:12:58 +0000

… yet the dishes are forever gone once chef Dragos Tudoran comes up with new ideas, a regular occurrence at Maimuca restaurant. No wonder why the menu is always called…

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Soro Lume – Neo-Romanian cuisine worth travelling to Bucharest for

Ioana Negulescu — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:31:06 +0000

Moving away from the idea of fine dining (arguably more exclusive than inclusive), Soro Lume invites all those curious to taste the country’s history and tradition in contemporary fashion –…

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Not-quite-news: Scandinavian cook kills pizzaiolo in terrible pizza crime

Ioana Negulescu — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:26:21 +0000

Yesterday afternoon, a Neapolitan pizzaiolo died of heart attack, after a dill pickle landed on the pizza he was just about to slide into the wood fired oven. Shortly after…

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No guts, no glory: stories about offal and other organ meats, for the mindful carnivore

Ioana Negulescu — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 23:57:05 +0000

Seven years ago, I moved to Scotland. Any foreigner who ever moved there knows that, on top of the copious amounts of whisky, wind and rain, Scotland also greets you…

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An elegy to gastronomy in the times of corona

Ioana Negulescu — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:46:53 +0000

I am chaotically waltzing through my thoughts, my anger, my sadness, my disappointment and a broken heart that keeps breaking more and more, and that I would like to patch…

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Why I started a YouTube channel

Ioana Negulescu — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 16:26:06 +0000

Hello everyone, my name is Ioana Negulescu – oh wait, am I already developing YouTube habits of trying to interact with the audience? – yes, that’s right: I started a…

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Take the tomato – what is local and traditional food after all?

Ioana Negulescu — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 22:51:11 +0000

Imagine biting into a sweet, ripe tomato, with its juices bursting out as your teeth pierce its flesh, with its smell and aroma providing your gustatory system with a great…

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For the love of food, quality and produce: Igor Kuznetsov’s Noble Savage

Ioana Negulescu — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 23:10:47 +0000

Listen to a recording of the article or read on. I met Igor shortly after coming back to Vienna last summer. My newly found friends from the natural wine club…

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Food in the time of Corona: The Rise of the New-Normal Cuisine

Ioana Negulescu — Mon, 25 May 2020 22:16:09 +0000

Listen to the recording of this article, or read on! Two years ago, a week after I moved to Vienna, I went for my religious weekend market stroll. I stopped,…

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