Cultural history sprinkled with memories and anecdotes, the story of the cozonac is a window into the history of Romania.
Delicious story of the Romanian cozonac, the new book by Tatiana Niculescu, is available for pre-orders with the author's autograph, on the websites Libhumanitas, Libris, Cărturești, Diverta, Librărie.net, Emag. Delivery starts on April 29th.
Passed through numerous avatars – sweetened bread, leavened ritual bread, noble dough prepared according to foreign recipes for Easter and Christmas, sophisticated family cake, ethnic specialty, national symbol – the cozonac is linked to events, people, places and events that marked generations of Romanians. The delight of this book is in the combination of the grace of the story and the richness of the documentation. Attracted by the scent of the past from memoirs, diaries, literary works, and made to think by questions, hypotheses and etymologies, the reader is carried on a passionate search for the joy of creating, from the faces of the cozonac, a personal or collective home.
“Gradually, the stories about cozonacs began to speak to me differently: they were capsules of protective intimacy, lessons about the lust for life in the safety of a home, about patience, trust, love, strength of character and about a peaceful wholeness of man over time, which, in the century of all speeds and digital technology, has become all the more rare and precious.”, says Tatiana Niculescu.
