Belgium's Queen Paola tastes local food during a visit to Cristian village in Romania, July 9, 2009. (Yves Herman/Reuters)
"Ram pulp" with a side of polenta
To enjoy restaurants in the new Bucharest you have to get past the menus.
BUCHAREST, Romania — Of all the obstacles that Romania’s communist dictatorship put in the way of foreign journalists trying to cover the country, the daily quest for decent food was one of the most exasperating.
By the late 1980s, the hardline regime of tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu strictly rationed most basic foodstuffs. There were a few dreary restaurants — for those...
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Documentary roundup
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