Autumn is the busiest time of the agricultural year and it’s true for the red spice paprika varieties, too. Picking, post-harvest ageing and processing was always an arduous job and it is no different today. Harvest traditionally started on 8 September, the Day of the Blessed Virgin Mary and ended before frost set in or until…
„Discovering is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought” said Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine in 1937. Albert Szent-Györgyi was born on 16 September 1893. In this post we are celebrating the life and work of this wonderful man. A charming personality, an eventful…
Szeged Lowertown has always been a separate entity within Szeged city. Its homogeneous Hungarian population followed strict Roman Catholic ethics and made a living from agriculture. Among their most famous crops were tobacco and paprika. The two most important characteristics by the end of the 19th century were their religious faith and the sweet paprika spice called…
September the 8th is one of the many Marian devotion days in the life of the Roman Catholic Church. In olden times the people of Szeged on this day devoted time and piety to the Blessed Virgin Mary. September was a busy time for a Catholic farmer, and on this day thoughts and prayers probably…
Szeged’s International Fish Soup Festival is on us. Hundreds of cauldrons will be set up and families and friends will be cooking fish soup along the River Tisza. Fish soup is an iconic dish in Hungarian kitchen today, however, its popularity today is nowhere near to what it was in the past. Before river regulation in…
As we are approaching 20 August, the summer is coming to an end. It’s harvest time and before we start spice paprika picking it is time now to harvest our most common summer vegetables: tomato and paprika. The paprika that feature in the recipes below are all vegetable paprikas, meaning the thick, juicy vegetables that…
Szeged writers have been using the paprika plant in their literary works in a number of ways. Literary representations are not about plant philosophy but serve as symbolic links with Szeged the city, its puszta (farming) areas and people. On 1 August we just celebrated the birthday of Sándor Bálint (1904-1980), the man who has…
Hungarian lecsó, stuffed pepper, pumpkin cream with dills, fried eggplant slices,butterhead lettuce dressed in sweet-and-sour sauce, and cucumber salad topped with sour cream and a pinch of red paprika powder are some of our most common summer dishes. What’s common in them besides being Hungarian summer faves? Most of them have a vegetable in them…
We proudly announce PaprikaMolnár’s Paprika Museum is on TV, or rather, on Youtube! CNN’s Great Big Story production group wanted to know why Hungarians are so obsessed with paprika. So, they came to Budapest, went to Paprika Market, ate nothing but paprikash and spent a day with us in PaprikaMolnár’s museum and factory and listened to…
There is a Hungarian folk song that says Winter is cold, summer is warm, it’s raining all the time, it’s never a good time. The melody or tune of the song is fun and the lyrics are so Hungarian: Hungarians like to complain, but at the same time they are self-ironic and like to have…
Churches have always been centres of communities. When bells in the first world war were commonly taken and melted down for military purposes, the church-going community immediately started collecting money for the new bells. It took about five years for Szeged-Alsóváros people to collect money for the new bells for their church. In 1921 the…
The post last week The Englishman who went up the mill and came down astounded showed details from the life of a paprikamiller in Szeged-Szentmihály. Mária Lábdy’s memories now continue with her mother’s role in the paprika business and we’ll touch upon drink problems, too. “My parents were respected and liked by the community. When they…
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