Food – rroma.org https://rroma.org Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:31:06 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Food – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Roma Soul https://rroma.org/roma-soul-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-soul-2 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:31:06 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=33711 The project “Roma Soul Food” explores Roma musical and culinary traditions through interviews with community members in three countries, resulting in a collaborative album.

The initiative emphasizes the connection between food and music as vital elements of Roma culture, fostering community ties and storytelling.

Despite being one of Europe’s largest ethnic minorities, Roma communities face significant social exclusion, with low feelings of inclusion reported in Serbia, Greece, and Slovenia.

]]> Bread in Eastern Slovakia https://rroma.org/bread-in-eastern-slovakia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bread-in-eastern-slovakia Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:11:02 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32407 In a Roma settlement, a recipe of the cheapest bread possible, with flour, water, and salt.

]]> Bulgarian Roma Food https://rroma.org/bulgarian-roma-food/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bulgarian-roma-food Wed, 21 May 2025 10:44:32 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28369 Spring Roma dishes arepresented at the Ethnographic Museum in Burgas, Bulgaria for an unconventional offer – the Week of Roma Spring Feasts.

Cooking will be done in front of the general public by residents of the village of Rusokastro. They are old friends of the Burgas Museum, and during the summer months they work on the excavations of the medieval town of Rusokastro. Here, they will work as master chefs, and will reveal to us the secrets of Roma cuisine and more precisely – of spring Roma dishes.

On Wednesday (May 21), the recipe Ribnik without fish will be presented, which is prepared with the first spring green beans. On Thursday (May 22) we will enjoy lean sarmi from duckweed with an appetizing sauce, and on Friday (May 23) we will be able to try the unique lapadnik – bread with duckweed, green onions and gyozu.

]]> Lovaro Krečuno https://rroma.org/lovaro-krecuno/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lovaro-krecuno Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:35:46 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26615 Jaroslav Bihary (61) from Nitra, co-founder of the Roma Civic Association Lovári, tells how these special days take place in Lovara Roma households.

]]> Romano Krečuno: Cooking https://rroma.org/romano-krecuno-cooking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=romano-krecuno-cooking Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:05:09 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26583 A video on the traditional Roma dishes served for Krečuno – Christmas.

]]> November 8th in Austria https://rroma.org/november-8th-in-austria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=november-8th-in-austria Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:28:21 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25593 Celebration of the 8th of November in Austrian Television in Burgenland Romanes and with Roma recipes.

]]> Roma Evening https://rroma.org/roma-evening/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-evening Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:34:17 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25002 A Roma evening took placve in the Lendava Theatre and Concert Hall. The central part was a concert of Romano Glauso, a Roma music group.

]]> Czech Roma Cuisine https://rroma.org/czech-roma-cuisine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czech-roma-cuisine Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:53:14 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=23659 An article about typical “Roma” food. Rather, food for the poor in Czech lands. Here, a sausage made of intestines and potatoes.

]]> Bjelovar, Croatia https://rroma.org/bjelovar-croatia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bjelovar-croatia Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:25:43 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=22523 The Bjelovar-Bilogor County is unique in Croatia in terms of the diversity of its minority communities. As many as 21 of the 22 recognised minorities live harmoniously within its borders. Traditional dishes of national minorities were presented on the recently held Evening of National Minorities in Bjelovar’s Hall of European Champions, which was organized for the 15th time by the Czech Municipality of Bjelovar.

Romapresented themselves with their most famous dish, sarma – stuffed cabbage. The name comes from Armenia where it denotes meat wrapped in wine leaves.

]]> Slovak Roma Cookbook https://rroma.org/slovak-roma-cookbook/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovak-roma-cookbook Sat, 26 Nov 2022 09:49:42 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=18711 Peter Pollak, the former plenipotentiary for Roma in Slovakia published a cookbook of Roma cuisine. As Peter Pollák writes right at the beginning of the book, food should serve as a destroyer of even the biggest barriers. While preparing this book, he is said to have encountered the usual prejudice in Slovakia about how Roma cuisine mainly consists of eating dogs. According to him, he flipped through 2,000 pages of various Romani cookbooks and found no mention of “barking” food there.

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