Ottoman Contact and the Moldavian Table

Historical period

Three centuries of suzerainty and trade, and the Phanariot governors of the 18th century, brought into the upper kitchen and then downward: stuffed vegetables and vine leaves, pilaf, aubergine, coffee, layered nut-and-honey pastry, sherbets, and the practice of the long-simmered stew. The Danube and the Black Sea ports were the route.