Old woman selling her own products in Matache Market, Bucharest

Sweet, flavored summer tomatoes

Ciorba de loboda - Loboda Soup

A kind of soup made with fresh spring herbs (kind of red leafs -"loboda", green onion, green garlic, lovage leafs) and fresh milk whey. A seasonal soup, cheap, simple but healthy and full of flavor, very common in the spring months of April and May.

The famous pretzels of Buzau (covrigi de Buzau)

The pretzels (Romanian "covrigi") are a famous specialty of the town of Buzau, a small city located at the south-eastern foothills of the Carpathians in the region of Walachia. Legend has it that the pretzels recipe was introduced to Buzau around 1800, by Greek merchants who had opened pubs in the city.
Since January 2007, covrigi are a European protected trademark.

The lamb soup ("ciorba de miel"), a local spring dish, Balkan style

"Pita de Pecica", a certified Romanian traditional product