My mother travelled Moldova to save recipes in danger of dying out \u2013 and captured the tale of our rich and turbulent past<\/p>\n
When my country finally makes it into the EU<\/a>, it will be one of the smallest members of the club \u2013 and one whose national identity is strong, shaped by the upheavals of its history. A former Soviet republic, Moldova has been independent since 1991, but we are still living in Russia\u2019s menacing shadow<\/a>, especially since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n To figure out where Moldova\u2019s national resilience<\/a> resides, you could do worse than sit down over Christmas with a bowl of hearty red borscht with pork belly and sauerkraut (in the north) or sparrow fricassee (a specialty of the south) and a plate of domc\u0103<\/em> (festive brioche with walnut) or plachie<\/em> (rice pudding) for dessert.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My mother travelled Moldova to save recipes in danger of dying out \u2013 and captured the tale of our rich and turbulent past When my country finally makes it into the EU, it will be one of the smallest members of the club \u2013 and one whose national identity is strong, shaped by the upheavals … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}