This unique cookbook is written with the today's busy lifestyle in mind
introduces modern versions of recipes handed down for generations. The
cookbook brings the true traditional taste of Hungary to your table by
choosing among the easy-to-follow recipes. The book is packed full of
practical tips, useful hints and step-by-step lavish color photography
About the
Author
I wrote this book because friends always
ask for my recipes. After their countless cooking disasters, they insisted
that I put together a collection of recipes with an easy to follow
step-by-step guide.
Editorial Reviews:
A Taste of the Past
serves as both historical record and
cookbook. Tells the story of his
great-grandmother, a Jewish woman
growing up in a nineteenth-century
Hungarian town and assimilating into the
dominant gentile culture. She left
behind a trunkful of recipes, and from
these, Koerner has reconstructed a
culinary tradition, updating the recipes
to make them reproducible in a modern
kitchen.
Riza's family was religious, and Koerner
also describes the special foods (pike
in sour aspic, cholent, apple-matzo
kugel, and much more) she served to
celebrate the Sabbath and the six major
Jewish holidays. Short introductions to
the recipes describe the evolution of
the dishes through the centuries, their
role in Jewish culture, and how cultural
influences and religious traditions
shaped Riza's cooking.
Editorial
Reviews:
This unique
cookbook is
written with
the today's
busy
lifestyle in
mind
introduces
modern
versions of
recipes
handed down
for
generations.
The cookbook
brings the
true
traditional
taste of
Hungary to
your table
by choosing
among the
easy-to-follow
recipes. The
book is
packed full
of practical
tips, useful
hints and
step-by-step
lavish color
photography
About the
Author
I wrote this
book because
friends
always ask
for my
recipes.
After their
countless
cooking
disasters,
they
insisted
that I put
together a
collection
of recipes
with an easy
to follow
step-by-step
guide.
Editorial Reviews:
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. This fascinating reference details that readjustment, which
continues to this day, and shows how it has developed through privatization,
foreign investment, and the dedication of small producers who struggle to
achieve quality standards despite a chronic lack of capital. More than 300
wine producers are featured, not only from the famous regions like Tokaj and
Villany, where significant progress has been made, but also from the
lesser-known regions that may yet have the potential to make world-class
wines.
Editorial Reviews:
Book Description "Our appetite for this interesting cuisine, a
melding of Germanic, Slavic, Tartar, and Turkish influences, has
been whetted by [this] excellent new work."--New York Times
About the
Author
Susan
Derecskey was born in New York City and educated at Brooklyn College and the
University of Strasbourg. She worked in publishing and journalism until she
met a transplanted European journalist named Charles Derecskey, by origin a
Hungarian from Transylvania, and embarked on the globe-trotting
uncertainties of life with a foreign correspondent...
Editorial Reviews:
June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes
cookbook has 95 wonderful kitchen-tested
family recipes. It is nicely organized with one recipe per page and each
recipe is preceded by a short colorful remembrance or historical fact. The
cookbook has 195 pages, measures 9X7 and is spiral bound so it will lay flat
in the kitchen. It has an Ingredients page, an Alphabetical and Category
Recipe Index with English and Hungarian names.
About the Author
June Meyer, a Chicago native and
graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, taught Art at
Deerfield's Wilmot Elementary School for 25 years until her retirement in
1994. June grew up with these recipes since both of her parents were born in
Hungary and they brought their ethnic dishes with them when they emigrated
to America.
Editorial Reviews:
This unique cookbook is written with the today's busy lifestyle in mind
introduces modern versions of recipes handed down for generations. The
cookbook brings the true traditional taste of Hungary to your table by
choosing among the easy-to-follow recipes. The book is packed full of
practical tips, useful hints and step-by-step lavish color photography
About the
Author
I wrote this book because friends always
ask for my recipes. After their countless cooking disasters, they insisted
that I put together a collection of recipes with an easy to follow
step-by-step guide.
