Semnificaţii ale hranei în cultura tradiţională – din Datinele şi credinţele poporului român de Elena Niculiţă-Voronca.

Regular everyday practices, as opposed to ritual / ceremonial ones regarding food in traditional Romanian society reveal symbolic meanings of a socio-cultural code. Our paper highlights certain aspects of the quite varied gastronomic register, of the practices and beliefs circumscribed to it, from the first volume of the work Datinele şi credinţele poporului român (The customs and beliefs of the Romanian people), authored by Elena Niculiţă-Voronca at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Our research focuses on the symbolic and ritual values of food, on the existing nuances in the human-food-cultural system relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]