Mother's Cookbook: Traditional European Desserts

This book is dedicated to the memory of my

mother, Steliana Costin, who was a teacher

of the culinary art.

As, a child, I always thought of my mother as belonging to us, the family,

entirely. Could not imagine that she had a separate life as a teacher, and

loved and formed young people to become fruitful citizens of society. I

was only seeing one side of mother's persona.

The first glimpse of who my mother was happened when we were in

vacation hiking throughout a small village in the Carpathian Mou...