DIGITAL ARCHIVE
“Love goes through the stomach.”
“What grew at home, that's what we had.”
“Soup had to be on the menu every day.”
“It’s a Roma
custom.”
“We ate whatever was on the table.”
“Life, food, everything changed.”
“Those dishes were very simple, but tasty.””
“With what they had at home, they prepared a feast.”
“There must be a cooked meal every day.”
"We ate whatever was available; we were poor, nobody was picky."
"How to prepare carp"
"We ate everything and anything; whatever we had, we ate."
"Whatever you have, you cook."
“Gypsy music, like Gypsy music, exists and does not exist, it depends on where you live”
“I like sarma the most, I like prebranac/baked beans, I like everything.”
"My favourite food is chicken stifado (stew). It is a very important food for me."
"Without a feast you can not celebrate your name day - the same way as without a bride you cannot celebrate a marriage."
"I go every Saturday to the flea market in order to buy food for the whole week."
"I lighted the stove and on the top I was baking bread for the children."
"You could only buy sweets, who knew to make sweets back then?"
"Back then my mother used to cook outside the house using a gas cylinder."
"I make two or three different dishes each day, one for us and one for the kids."
“Food brings people together.”
"We lived in poverty and didn't have much."
"We ate whatever was available.And we were truly grateful for everything”
“The Roma have what others don't, they have soul."
"Back in the day, hedgehogs were considered one of the greatest delicacies"