Moldovan Religious Foodways

Religious

Orthodox Christianity shapes the eating year for the majority — Wednesday and Friday abstinence, the Nativity Fast, Great Lent, the Apostles’ and Dormition fasts — which is why the meatless versions of sarmale, plăcinte and bean dishes are so developed. Alongside it: Old Believer Lipovan practice, Roman Catholic and Protestant communities, the Gagauz and Bulgarian Orthodox calendars, and until 1941 a very large Jewish one. ⚠ RELIGION IS NOT ETHNICITY and neither determines the other here.