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World's Most Traditional Food Products Available Commercially, world record in Arieseni, Romania

Oct 17, 2024

World's Most Traditional Products Available Commercially, world record in Arieseni, Romania

Arieseni, Alba, Romania--Cristina Nicola and her husband, two entrepreneurs from Arieseni, Alba, Romania, manage to put over 190 assortments of traditional products cooked according to recipes handed down from their grandmother, on the shelves of their brand "Camara Motului" ("The pantry of the mountain farmer"), thus setting the world record for the World's Most Traditional Food Products Available Commercially, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

"Cristina Nicola and her husband are two entrepreneurs from Arieseni, who own CĂMARA MOțULUI, through which they make traditional Romanian products according to recipes handed down from their grandmother. They are sold in the company's online store, but also in two hypermarkets in the country," the Observator de Timis says.

"The two are the owners of the tourist complex Vank, from Arieseni. They manage to put over 190 assortments of traditional products on the shelves of the MOȚULUI CĂMARA.

"It all started in 2003, and a few years later in 2013, Cristina Nicola was producing jams and syrups, which she previously used as souvenirs for tourists who came to the tourist complex she manages. Now, the products are prepared right in the tourist complex that he owns."

"I have the recipes from my grandmother, who died last year at the age of 97, I also registered them with OSIM and they are dishes you can only find in this area. We have a different footprint. With us, everything is cooked with cream. Can't do without cream. From soup, to second course, to dessert," the Observator de Timis says.

"We also have original products, because I really like to read, discover, compose. To list only a few of the products from CĂMARA MOțULUI would be like this: jam from lilac flowers, syrups from lilac flowers, milk jam - we have 10 variants - milk with caramel, milk with almonds, with cinnamon, with cocoa, etc. .

"We have cherry jam with chocolate, with cocoa, blueberry jam with chives, etc. We can also go to the snack area. We have ghebe, aubergine, yellowtail, bream and trout appetizers. But we also have pickles. In addition to traditional pickles, we have, for example, yolks in mustard sauce or ghebe in mustard sauce. They are something new, for our taste. We successfully interweave tourism businesses with traditional products from CĂMARA MOțULUI. Accommodations have expanded greatly in this area. But in addition to accommodation, we also offer them a diversified meal with 100% traditional and certified products."

"Cristina Nicola is basically an economist, but she specialized in the production of jams, syrups, jams or vegetables, but also cheese, fruit and vegetable products or milk collected from the Apuseni Mountains or collected from producers in the area," Ziarul Financiar says.

"From early spring to late autumn, she manages to put over 190 assortments of traditional products on the shelves of the Moţului Pantry and hopes that this year her turnover will exceed 200,000 lei.

""Our pantry is full all year round, but now, in autumn, you can see that we have collected everything and put it in the jar. We have 190 varieties of traditional products certified as "mountain product". (...) I started making such products in 2013, and 2016 was the zero point for the business", says Cristina Nicola, founder of the Cămara Moţului brand."

"The raw material is very important. We have everything in the Apuseni Mountains, and the taste of raspberries or blackberries cannot be compared to cultivated ones," the Produs In Ardeal says.

"Now we have in the pantry cold-pressed syrups of blueberries, fir buds, wildflowers, lilac flowers, currants, strawberries, as well as fruit juices, ghebe snack, pickled ghebe donuts and milk. I make products that people need in their pantry. The average basket is 200 lei," said the entrepreneur from Żara Moţilor.

"The products are sold in the company's online store, in small neighborhood stores in the country and in Auchan, and Cristina Nicola says that this year was an atypical year for the company, because customers looked carefully at what they put in the basket in March increasing online orders, after which they decreased in July and August, and from September they returned to the upward trend."

"Camara Motului was established in 2016, and the business activity is the manual production of traditional Romanian products according to old recipes adapted to current requirements," the Industria Carnii says.

"On the shelves of Camara Motului you can find over 190 varieties of jams, syrups, zacusca or vegetables, but also cheese, fruit and vegetable products or milk collected from the Apuseni Mountains or collected from producers in the area."

"Cămara Moţului" was actually born ten years ago when we started the "big Adventure" of our life in the field of tourism, in the heart of the Country of Moţilor in the tourist resort of Arieseni," the official website says.

"Thus, each guest on departure received, from the house, a small souvenir and what could be better than "goodies" from the pantry. Their desire to buy, after tasting and being convinced, natural products for family and friends 100% motivated us to open wide the doors of the Motilor Pantry.

""Cămara Moţului" has always been the place where, regardless of the season, any guest or passer-by found traditional products and dishes specific to the Apuseni Mountains. Therefore, "Cămara Moţului" gives other people the right to consume traditional products and dishes, naturally made according to recipes kept in the family for over four generations."

"The main object of the activity is the production of sweets according to recipes inherited from ancestors. Customers can thus buy cherry jam with cocoa or cherry jam with chocolate. The offer also includes strawberry jam, onion jam, apricot jam with nuts or chives with blueberries," the Adevarul.ro says.

"The Moţului pantry also includes assortments of syrups, blackberry, elderberry, fir buds, mint, elderberry syrups, etc. Also here you can find various types of zacusca, but also other more exotic products such as: cheese with grapes, with tomatoes and basil, cheese with olives, with pepper paste, but also the famous Urda Maașa. The offer does not lack either pickles or yolks in mustard sauce.

"Sweetness prepared in tins, on a wood fire, according to grandmother's recipe, is very successful among Romanian tourists, as well as among foreigners. Tourists can help prepare it, then they are invited to taste it. Many also take it home, a habit that has already become a ritual."