All over Romania there are festivals for something or other throughout the year. There was a tuberose festival nearby a few weeks ago. On Saturday, we are going to the Transilvania Gastronomică - Food Culture Festival in Sibiu and next week there is the Transilvanian Book Festival in nearby Richis which we will go along to for a day. Ooh, and I’ve just discovered there is a Honey Day in Hamba, on the way to Sibiu, next weekend. Ooh, have to go to that – there is a family which has started a training school for bee-keepers; I need to find out about that!
So, it turns out that Moşna too has its own festival in the first weekend of October. And what, I hear you ask, is Moşna famous for? Wait for it… cabbages! Yes, we have a cabbage festival. It was started ten years ago and is now apparently quite wonderful. I can’t wait!
It’s ironic really. When I was being interviewed by the school principal for my job in Bucharest, I was asked why I wanted to move from the Middle East to Romania. My answer was pretty much a stock one – seasons, trees, mountains, an almost complete lack of sand – you know the sort of thing. The lady was having none of it so I explained I liked to cook and did care where my food came from but in the Middle East that was well nigh impossible. In Romania, I would be able to buy much more locally grown produce. Her answer to that? “Oh well, cabbage it is then!” And I got the job. Surprising really… And here I am now living in the ‘home’ of cabbage!
On our first foray out of Bucharest seven years ago, we came across a cabbage harvest in full flow and the story of that is under the ‘Romania’ tab or http://www.patonthetummy.com/romania.html just scroll down...
So, it turns out that Moşna too has its own festival in the first weekend of October. And what, I hear you ask, is Moşna famous for? Wait for it… cabbages! Yes, we have a cabbage festival. It was started ten years ago and is now apparently quite wonderful. I can’t wait!
It’s ironic really. When I was being interviewed by the school principal for my job in Bucharest, I was asked why I wanted to move from the Middle East to Romania. My answer was pretty much a stock one – seasons, trees, mountains, an almost complete lack of sand – you know the sort of thing. The lady was having none of it so I explained I liked to cook and did care where my food came from but in the Middle East that was well nigh impossible. In Romania, I would be able to buy much more locally grown produce. Her answer to that? “Oh well, cabbage it is then!” And I got the job. Surprising really… And here I am now living in the ‘home’ of cabbage!
On our first foray out of Bucharest seven years ago, we came across a cabbage harvest in full flow and the story of that is under the ‘Romania’ tab or http://www.patonthetummy.com/romania.html just scroll down...