Although long overlooked as a minor issue, culinary culture makes an essential contribution to shaping the identity profile of an individual, a community or a culture. Cultural identity finds expression not so much in the content of the food, but in the specifics of how the food is processed, how it is eaten, when and where it is prepared. The cultural component of food at the stages of acquiring, growing, preparation and consumption of food is confirmed by numerous prescriptions and rules that

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... ensure the proper organisation and functioning of human existence. In this article we aim to analyze the forms in which the popular imagination attributes to food a sacred valence, capable of influencing human health and life in the earliest Romanian folklore collections of beliefs and superstitions.