IRINA GEORGESCU’S ROMANIAN CURD CHEESE PIE
“We have our mothers’ recipes and we strongly believe they are the best!”
When Irina Georgescu moved to Britain in 2010, she found that, ‘cooking Romanian dishes was a way of staying connected with my family’. In her Welsh kitchen, she reminisces about holidays in Transylvania and cooking with her mother in 1980s Bucharest, a country then ruled by the notorious Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Irina began blogging her recipes under the banner Life in Small Bites, now , which inspired her debut cookery book (£22, Frances Lincoln). As she says: ‘Romanian cookery is quite personal. We have our mothers’ and our grandmothers’
