Moldovan Grain Foodways

Specialised

Wheat for bread and pastry; maize for mămăligă and for animals; barley and oats as fodder and in older porridges; rye in the north; millet, which was the porridge grain BEFORE maize and is now marginal; buckwheat through Russian and Ukrainian influence. ⚠ THE PORRIDGE GRAIN CHANGED: millet gave way to maize, and that substitution is the central fact of the region’s food history.