Zacusca

He took a piece of fish, a mouthful of bread, a few spoons of zacusca and then wished us a good rest with the warmest […]

Meanwhile your guide begins to unpack the picnic: slices of pork from local Durac pigs; zacusca, a tomato and pepper sauce made to your guide's mother's own recipe; wine from the grapes in her cobbled courtyard; and cheeses – salty cas and ricotta-like urda – recently made by the shepherd's wife.

Breakfast was rye bread, beans, pickles and zacusca, a Romanian version of ratatouille, over-boiled so we used it as a spread.

"Certainly," he answers, and so I get out some bread and the Zacusca (vegetable paste) to get him started, then I begin to make a sour soup with cabbage and potatoes and sour cream, of course.