“THE ROMANIAN MĂMĂLIGĂ HAS EXPLODED!” WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEW VISION OF GAMBLING

             Steven Sampson, an American anthropologist who published an article six years before the 1989 Revolution entitled „Muddling through in Romania: Why the mămăliga doesn’t explode” in the International Journal of Romanian Studies, 1981-1983, was first to publicly use this idiom, which challenged the idea of Romanian passivity. In his works, Alex Drace-Francis links mămăligă to important historical moments, such as the...