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Gastro dictionary vol. 2

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pasta
Pasta and handmade noodles are a significant part of the Hungarian cuisine. While pasta can be purchased in the supermarkets nowadays, there are still certain kind of garnishes, noodles and soup ingredients that are the best when made fresh. It is amazing how many different kinds of side dishes you can prepare from the same ingredients. Take a look: Csipetke: Made of flo...
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Törley sparkling wine

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törley sparkling wine, coffee houses walking tour
During the 130- year history of the Törley factory, the company succefsfully survived two world wars, and kept producing the great quality sparkling wine of this region. Some interesting facts about József Törley, the Törley company and sparkling wine creator: * József Törley founded the Törley company in Budafok, in 1882, when he decided to invest the knowledge he had a...
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Rétes History

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rétes
Strudel (Rétes) is a layered pastry, usually with sweet filling, popular in Hungary, Austria and Serbia. Austrians like to claim it as an Austrian dessert, but it is presumably originated from the Turkish baklava, and became popular in Austria by Hungarian mediation. The current form of rolled and filled strudel was spread on the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in...
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Budapest Classical

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classical music, Budapest classics, classical music programmes
Well, we are not aware that Arnold is a talented violinist, but probably he could have become a great musician, with his hunger for success and his toughness. His intention though was different. It is known from his success stories that between his childhood, spending in an Austrian village, and the latest project of Terminator 5, he did indeed received titles like Mr Unive...
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Our spirit – Pálinka

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pálonka, Hungarain spirit
A part of the Hungarian people's spirit comes from a drinkable spirit, called Pálinka. Due to the lucky geographical situation of our sunny valley, surrounded by the Kárpátok and Alpok mountains, Hungary has great land and high number of sunny hours to produce sweet fruit for this great appetizer. Appetizer, I say, because it is commonly known among everybody who has stayed in ...
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Upcoming events February-March

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Torkos Csütörtök - Fat Thursday  February 19,  will be the date for this year's Fat Thursday event. On this day, the participating restaurants offer their menu with 50% discount. Please find the list of restaurants here. It is a great possibility to try some decent restaurants  of your interest. Some restaurants may extend the discount for the following days. Reservation ...
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Original Souvenirs

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Visiting another country or city always makes us wonder, almost right away, what can we take with us back home? What little piece of this exotic world can we retain? Escaping from our everyday life, gives us the extra energy when getting back to our daily routine. We like to think back on our nice memories, just by looking at the smaller or bigger souvenirs we purchased for our...
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Gastro Dictionary vol. 1

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While the neighboring countries around Hungary show some sort of similarities in their cuisine - especially the ones from the Slavic language families-, Hungarian kitchen does have some kind of originality, or we can say: an extra ingenuity. We do have many very difficult dishes, whilst surprisingly easy and tasty ones can also be found. This is true for soups, just like for ca...
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Romantic Places

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Valentine's day is just around the corner. If you are lucky enough to celebrate the (Inter)National Holiday of Love in Budapest, you are in the best place possible place. Budapest is one of the most romantic cities in Europe. To feel like part of a fairy tale, you just have to climb up to the Castle district, to Fishermen's Bastion, walk along the streets, take a look at th...
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Sweet & Hot

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If you think about Hungarian meal, you will definitely think of a cooked dish with red color, thank to the widly used paprika. Why do Hungarians use so much paprika in their food, when the country is so far from Asia, where the chilli is so common, or South America, where the paprika is originally from? In the middle of Eastern Europe, it might be a bit strange, that paprik...
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