Green Pea Stew – King of All Stews – With Recipe! Stews first showed up some time during the 16th century, but back then they were very different from their modern... 2021.05.28.
Breaded Chicken – The Crispy Meat That Everyone Considers Their Own – With Recipe! It is practically a given that if we ask 10 Hungarians what their favorite food is, at least 7 will... 2021.05.14.
Nyírség Dumpling Soup – An Old Hungarian Dish That is Slowly Disappearing – with Recipe! Certain Hungarian foods have origins which we know very little about, yet they have still been ingrained in our memory... 2021.05.07.
Egg Dumplings (Galuska) – Our Simplest Dish, but We Love It – With Recipe! If there exists such a thing as Hungary's favorite side dish, it is without a doubt Hungarian dumplings (known in... 2021.04.23.
Bear’s Garlic Pogácsa: The Scent of Spring – With Recipe! Early Spring is the time when a dense green thicket covers a few of Hungary’s forests, but without creating a... 2021.04.16.
Meat Will Be Allowed Again on Saturday, Add This Lamb Dish to the Feast! Easter is an ancient tradition, extending all the way back to 1400 BCE, to the Jewish holiday of Passover, or... 2021.04.03.
Our Favorite Lent Dessert, Mistakenly Given an Intriguing Name – With Recipe! We consider it to be among our most interestingly named foods, but like countless other dishes we have, barátfüle (friend’s... 2021.04.02.
Tócsni: From a Potato to a Miracle with a Thousand Names – With Recipe! I think we can confidently say that out of all our foods, the dish we know most commonly as tócsni... 2021.03.19.
The Dish That Was Named After an Anthem – With Recipe! Grenadiermarsch grenade cubes, more popularly known by their less intimidating name of potato pasta. The dish which is currently reliving... 2021.03.05.
The Hungarian Dessert That Conquered the White House – With Recipe! It may be said for countless Hungarian main courses that they were developed with the influence of such and such... 2021.02.19.
Wine Soup: The Number One Christmas Dish of a Bygone Age – With Recipe! Nowadays, very few people group wine soup with traditional Hungarian Christmas dishes, and a whole generation may have never even... 2020.12.23.
Stuffed Cabbage, the ‘Grandmother’ of Hungarian Cuisine – With Recipe! Stuffed cabbage is not only a typical Hungarian Christmas dish, but one of the most popular, beloved, classic Hungarian dishes... 2020.12.20.
Maroon Ambrosia: Hungarian Venison Stew with Juniper Berries and Red Wine A staple of Christmas dinners for many Hungarians, red wine and juniper venison pörkölt is one of the most supremely... 2020.12.18.
The Most Hungarian Dessert: Sponge Cake ‘Somlói Style’ – with Recipe! The sponge cake 'Somlói style' is probably the best-known product of Hungarian confectionery. In the late 1950s, the legendary main... 2020.11.27.
The Most Delicious Medieval Tradition: St. Martin’s Goose and Red Cabbage – With Recipe! To be honest, I myself thought for too long that the Martin's Goose Day feast is a Hungarian folk tradition,... 2020.11.10.
The Flavor of Hungary: Chicken Paprikash – With Recipe! "Paprikás csirke," or chicken paprikash (in French- poulet au paprika à la hongroise, in German- paprikahuhn, in the case of... 2020.10.24.
London’s Legendary Hungarian Restaurant ‘Gay Hussar’ Reopens Under New Name ‘Noble Rot’ The legendary Hungarian restaurant in London, Gay Hussar, named after Imre Kálmán's world-famous operetta, The Gay Hussars (Tatárjárás), closed in... 2020.10.12.
Easy Twist for a Complicated Classic: Pumpkin-Poppy Seed Strudel – With Recipe! Our most popular and well-known pasta-based dessert, the strudel, or as we call it - rétes, is also the most... 2020.10.09.
A Secret Hungarian Classic: Cottage Cheese Dumplings – With Recipe! If we talk about dumplings, Hungary is usually not the first country that comes to our mind, as the Czech... 2020.08.21.
One of the Cornerstones of Hungarian Cuisine: Lecsó – With Recipe! The history of lecsó, the Hungarian counterpart of the French dish ratatouille, began in America with Spanish mediation, and not... 2020.08.14.
Taste Hungarian Literature: Bean Soup á la Jókai – with Recipe! The well-known Hungarian novelist, dramatist, and revolutionary, Mór Jókai, was also famously a great food connoisseur, as his contemporaries put... 2020.05.22.
