George Enescu: Oedipe	A masterpiece of 20th-century classical music. Illustrous cast and direction in a 1989 EMI recording (van Dam, Hendricks, Lipovsek / Foster).
	Taste of Romania: Its Cookery and Glimpses of Its History, Folklore, Art, Literature, and Poetry (New Hippocrene Original Cookbooks)	Great selection of traditional Romanian recipes, and easy-to-follow instructions.
	Puccini: La Boheme (Live from the Met)	Franco Zeffirelli's 2008 Met production.
	National Geographic Traveler: Romania	Evoking and inspiring writing by an art historian who has researched Romania for six years before writing her first Romania guide, Blue Guide Romania.
	The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Princeton Classic Editions)	A book about historical ways of anchoring existence in sacred time. A nice complement to this book is Eliade's study The Sacred and the Profane.
	Romanian Phrase Book & Dictionary (Berlitz Phrase Book) (Romanian Edition)	Excellent language resource. If you need one language book for your trip, get this one.