page_title: Moldova
section_title: Food and beverage
hierarchical_section_title: Moldova / Culture / Food and beverage
caption_attribution_description: English: A plate of Romanian food: Sarma and Mamaliga. Română: O farfurie cu mâncare românească: Sărmăluţe şi mămăligă. Italiano: Un piatto tipico rumeno: sarma (involtini di cavolo) e mămăligă (polenta). 日本語: ルーマニアとモルドヴァに共通の料理サルマーレ (ロールキャベツ・手前) とママリガ (トウモロコシ粉の粥・右奥)
context_page_description: Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The capital city is Chișinău.
  Most of the Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form Romania, but Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Bessarabia briefly became an autonomous state within the Russian Republic, known as the Moldavian Democratic Republic. In February 1918, the Moldavian Democratic Republic declared independence and then integrated into Romania later that year following a vote of its assembly. The decision was disputed by Soviet Russia, which in 1924 established, within the Ukrainian SSR, a Moldavian autonomous republic on partially Moldovan-inhabited territories to the east of Bessarabia.
context_section_description: Moldovan cuisine is similar to neighbouring Romania, and has been influenced by elements of Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian cuisine. Main dishes include beef, pork, potatoes, cabbage, and a variety of cereals. Popular alcoholic beverages are divin (Moldovan brandy), beer, and local wine.
  Total recorded adult alcohol consumption is approximately evenly split between spirits, beer and wine.
caption: A popular Moldovan dish of stuffed cabbage rolls (sarmale), accompanied by sauerkraut and mămăligă.
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