Hello and welcome to the menu Monocor Radio's food and drink program.
I'm your host, Chiara dimella.
Coming up, we journey down the banks of the Danube to get a taste of Eastern European cuisine.
Cuisine is such a wonderful way to discover a country's culture and their people, their customs.
You also get to cook from it.
You don't have to travel, so you cook from a book and you already experience the local flavors.
Also on the program, we try out a fresh take on Turkish in London.
So they have like this very hundred years old stone wood fired kind of oven
and they're just making pidez and they're like blow your mind.
Amazing.
That's all they do all day long.
Plus we explore the revival of the Green Fairy and its potent effects.
All that here on a menu on Monocor Radio.
Flowing through numerous countries of Eastern Europe,
the Danube traverses many different traditions, cultures and of course, cuisines.
But dishes, ingredients and influences have also traveled across its banks,
creating a unique blend that speaks of a region with a multifaceted history and identity.
Award winning Romanian food writer Irina Georgescu has written a series of books
on her homeland's recipes.
But for her latest Danube,