“The reason most Romanian cuisine doesn’t list this food, in my opinion, is because our ancestry comes from a Romanian province (which doesn’t exist anymore) known as ‘Bukovina.’ This province had a real multicultural flavour and its food was very reflective of the the ‘old country’ Romanian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Prussian influences, which ended up coming through in the immigrant Canadian foods and culture of the early 1900s (especially in the West!).”