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Elena Hartulari, “Nefericita petrecere a vieţii mele [My Life’s Unhappy Course]” - book cover of new critical edition

Elena Hartulari, “Nefericita petrecere a vieţii mele [My Life’s Unhappy Course]” the first Romanian-language women’s autobiography, now in a critical edition by the fabulous Constanţa Vintilă – a must read!
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Screenshot din video: how to color liquors red. Take red, ground sandalwood, 3 dram,... and add it to the liquor to stand 4 to 5 days on a warm stove, stirring often during the day, then strain and put in glass vessels. - 17th Century Romanian Cookbook by Lord Petru cel paros Voda

„Lord Petru cel păros Vodă” 🫣😳

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Kövi Pál: Ospăț Transilvan Proprietarul celebrului restaurant Four Seasons din New York, Kövi Pál, a adunat și studiat timp de peste două decenii obiceiurile culinare ale popoarelor din Transilvania. În călătoriile sale de cerc...

Proaspăt apărută:

Kövi Pál — Ospăț transilvan (2025), trad. Bara Hajnal

„Erdélyi lakoma”, apărută pentru prima oară în 1980 la editura Kriterion din București și cel mai recent reeditată în 2022, nu beneficiase pînă acum de o traducere în limba română.

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Thank you!

Ah, OK, page 73 here seems to provide the necessary context:

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În primul număr al ziarului Romanul, apărut la 9/21 august 1857 sub direcţia lui C. A. Rosetti, se începea publicarea în foileton a unui roman intitulat Omul muntelui. Autorul, care semna Doamna L. şi care-şi subintitula opera „romantz original“, avea, probabil, raţiuni puternice să păstreze discreţie în jurul adevăratului său nume. Romanul, cuprinzînd 12 capitole, este publicat în întregime în ziarul Romanul între 9/12 august 1857 şi 12/24 februarie 1858, în cursul anului 1858 este tipărit, sub aceeaşi semnătură, în volum.

Yes, it appears so. That initial period from the newspaper’s run is not archived on Arcanum to double-check, but there’s a mention about the serialization from Viața Romînească, 1959:

I wonder why it was initially commissioned to another printing house if the plan was to publish under Rosetti’s own.

Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Cântece şi plângeri [Songs and plaints], a volume of Romanian poetry published in 'transition alphabet', i.e. a mixture of Cyrillic and Roman letters - Iasi, 1852

Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Cântece şi plângeri (Iaşi, 1852) - transition alphabet in sans-serif!
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Grafica Română 1923-1932 | Arcanum Newspapers

🥳 Arcanum Newspapers tocmai a făcut disponibil un set mare de numere din publicația Grafica Română. Huge!

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The Ephemeral and the Durable - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food This is the third part of Wayfinding, a series on the history and design of cookbooks. I’m sitting on the floor of my office, sorting my family’s recipe cards into folders. […]

Culinary materials sit at the boundary of public & private spheres in a way many other subjects don’t: Cookbooks document the activities of our private worlds in a public way; recipe cards adapt public trends and return them to intimate, private contexts thisismold.com/process/cook...

"I find it hard, in the hectic pace of everyday life, between the cooking and the teaching and the meetings and the laundry and the child’s bedtime — to stay with a novel I have chosen for my own pleasure long enough that I’m pulled through to the end."

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Un borcan de trei litri plin cu apă cu zahăr în care plutesc flori de soc și felii de lămîie.

✅ Prima socată a sezonului

200 Proven Recipes (book cover)

"200 Proven Recipes", an annotated English translation of one of the first printed Romanian cookbooks – my review in Journal of Romanian Studies. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

List of quarantine stations on the right bank of the Lower Danube (1840)

List of quarantine stations on the right bank of the Lower Danube (1840)

Treatment to which different goods were subject at quarantine stations

Treatment to which different goods were subject at quarantine stations

There were 11 quarantine stations on the Danube in Wallachia (1840), reading about the treatments to which goods were subjected
(State Almanach, Bucharest 1840, p. 50-53)

Some personal news

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Paul Lukas shared a nice write-up about the show:

Acum, la vîrsta adultă, nu-mi mai amintesc mare lucru din experiența de a juca jocul — doar că îl jucam zi și noapte. N-am găsit nicio referință la acest joc, așa că am transcris cele două tentative aici, în caz că-i sună cunoscut cuiva. 🤞

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Cînd eram mic, „Mîța” era un joc de cărți popular printre copiii și adulții din zona Bistrița-Năsăud/Maramureș. Am avut pe vremea aia vreo două tentative de a documenta regulile jocului, descrise cu cuvinte pe care le învățasem dintr-o carte de la bibliotecă (tric! levată!), ambele lăsate în plop…

A new travel account of Bucharest from 1842-1843! Many thanks to colleagues at the Romanian Academy's "Nicolae Iorga" History Institute for the invitation to present it (lecture will be in Romanian). 8 April, 11am, all welcome

Echoes of Wallachia - Romanian popular songs (frontispiece in French and German)

Echoes of Wallachia - Romanian popular songs (c. 1850)
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Silk/wool fabric samples attached to a document, Bucharest 1768

Silk and wool fabric samples attached to a document, Bucharest 1768

Bucharest, 1768 - a document from Nica, Leipzig merchant, 35 silk and wool fabric samples attached
Source: National Archives of Romania

Estera Czelnai, Carte specială pentru Cofetărie și Bufet rece, Tipografia „Moderna”, București, 1936.

Estera Czelnai, Carte specială pentru Cofetărie și Bufet rece, Tipografia „Moderna”, București, 1936.

Ediția în română precedată de două ed. în maghiară:

Czelnai Eszter, Cukrászat és hideg büffé, Arad, 1929.

Czelnai Eszter, Cukrászat és hideg büffé, II. Kiadás, Ed. Minerva, Cluj-Kolozsvár, 1930.

Just published:
Yearbook of the "A.D. Xenopol" History Institute (2024)
Anuarul Institutului de Istorie "A.D. Xenopol" (2024)
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A fuller crop of the aforementioned cookery section.

Revista Magazin, 21 martie 1981:
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A better crop, more context, more questions...

A cookery section in the newspaper features a recipe for Cisburger.

Fun to imagine what spelling they might have used, another good one from 1981 :-)

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

In a newspaper ad, cheeseburger is speled Cheose Bürger.

But also a creative spelling from 1983 :-)

Paperback copy of my book in a shipping box.

It’s really out in the world! 🗃️ You can get The Craft of Historical Research as an ebook or a paperback from your favorite bookseller. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

On Arcanum there’s an isolated 1975 mention in a Romanian newspaper, part of a serialized Romanian translation of Duke Ellington’s autobiography. Otherwise the term shows up in the early 1990s.

This is Danube. I’m thrilled to announce my new book as we kick off the new year. I travel along the banks of the River Danube from its entry in Romania to its mouth at the Black Sea, where it is a natural boundary between Romania, Serbia & Bulgaria, and I explore the cuisine of these borderlands.