Product Description: Wonderful soups and stews (meatball, mushroom, potato, sauerkraut, and more), main dishes (cabbage and noodles, noodle bake, rice with meat, mustard chicken, potatoes and sausage, stuffed cabbage and peppers, etc.), side dishes, pastries and desserts...read more

An overview of Hungarian cookery, including information about the country's geography, history, holidays, and festivals. Features simple recipes, menu planning, and information about low-fat cooking and vegetarian options.

Product Description: Filled with 133 easy recipes for everyday and holiday occasions, each entry in this resource is drawn from the most popular Hungarian cookery book—including the best of traditional Hungarian cuisine.

These Old World recipes were brought to America by the author's grandparents, but they have been updated to accommodate today's faster-paced lifestyles. In many cases, the author presents a New World version of the recipe, in which low-fat and more readily available ingredients are substituted without compromising flavor. This collection includes timeless dishes, and spans the range of home cooking with recipes for Kohlrabi Soup, Stuffed Cabbage, Chicken Paprika, and a host of tempting dishes like Walnut Torte and Dilled Cottage Cheese Cake. The new chapter on breads focuses on yeast breads, with a short section on quick breads. It includes recipes for Sour Cream Biscuits, Hungarian Fried Bread, and Beer Bread Sticks, among others. This is more than just a collection of 142 enticing Hungarian recipes. The author offers culinary tips, explains characteristics of the Hungarian language, and includes a glossary of terms used throughout the book. Several chapters also describe the seasonal and ceremonial observances transplanted from Hungary and still practiced by Americans of Hungarian descent: bacon cookouts, fall grape festivals, weddings, baptisms, Christmas, New Year's, and Easter celebrations.

Product Description: Food and culture are inexorably tied together. The Culinaria series reports on every aspect of the cuisine of a country within the context of the people who created it. One of the most successful series in cook book history, these new editions are updated with the guidance of first-class chefs, and come in a durable flexi-cover format to withstand abuse while spending time in the kitchen...read more

Product Description: Despite its vast repertoire, variety, and recipes bursting with flavor, Hungarian cuisine is one of the most underappreciated and unknown European cuisines. There are few Hungarian restaurants outside the country so those who are interested in discovering Hungarian cuisine (and any food lover should be!) must go to Hungary to sample everything firsthand, prepared with real Hungarian ingredients–now by a new generation of talented chefs and winemakers...read more

Product Description: A Taste of the Past is an entertaining reconstruction of the daily life and household of Therese (Riza) Baruch (1851–1938), the great-grandmother of the author, András Koerner. Based on an unusually complete cache of letters, recipes, personal artifacts, and eyewitness testimony, Koerner describes in loving detail the domestic life of a nineteenth-century Hungarian Jewish woman, with special emphasis on the meals she served her family...read more

Product Description: I offer this book as a troubadour, leading his listeners to a mystical playground. There are stories to most recipes in this book, and they are not based on, or subjected to scientific research, but rather, whimsical in nature. Delightful reading and delicious eating was, is and will be, as it should, through the ages...read more

Product Description: Baking with yeast is becoming a lost art. Many cooks would love to utilise the incredible properties of yeast, but lack a guide to inform and inspire them. The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast shows how simple baking with yeast can be, and how irresistible the results...read more

Product Description: Hungary has 22 wine regions, and a once-proud tradition that had to be completely reinvented after 45 years of communism—during which time the entire structure of grape growing and wine production was altered beyond recognition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Assembled within these pages are the easy-to-follow recipes for delectable appetizers, flavorful entrees, robust salads, and tempting desserts. Prince carefully explains the time-honored cooking methods, walking readers through explicit instructions for creating authentic dishes which are sure to become family favorites--while also providing new twists on other popular ethnic and regional meals...read more