So many things have happened in the past few weeks: Museum reopened with new Museum Garden and we’re writing the Paprika Book! PaprikaMolnar is happy to share the news with you: Paprika plantig: We finished planting successfully, so did our farmers. This is 10-year-old Bogi helping her Dad, Grandma and Grandpa plant the last plantlings…
4 June 1920 was a particularly dark day in the history of Hungary. Exactly 100 years ago on this day Hungarian politicians signed the Versailles Peace Treaty (known in Hungary by Trianon Treaty) that finalized Hungary’s fate after the lost war. The Treaty was unjust and exaggerating: it tore country, nation, property and families apart.…
In the past few weeks things have started to get back to normal. As Budapest is slowly being opened from the virus lockdown, more and more people are out using buses, trains, trolleys and trams. Accordingly, we’ve selected a humorous conversation between two Hungarians from Pesti Paprika Cabaret series entitled he tram terminates here. Pesti…
Paprika planting in Hungary is just starting. Farmers are busy with removing the paprika seedlings from the nursery and transplanting them out to the open fields. PaprikaMolnár is planting a little earlier than usual also: our seedlings are ready by now to be transplanted on 14 May! The Ice Saints Pancras, Servatius and Boniface aren’t…
Now that we’re extremely keen on protecting our health, it’s high time to discuss once more the healing power of paprika pálinka. This is “brandy” in which we soak hot paprika or chili fruits. It’s not a common drink today, but it was in Szeged Paprika Town a hundred years ago. Paprika pálinka – hot…
In April we’re celebrating the 12th birthday of PaprikaMolnar’s Paprika Mill & Museum. (To be precise: the paprika Mill has been running for some 25 years, it was the Museum we created 12 years ago.) For the anniversary we’ve selected a few moments of the many many great moments we’ve enjoyed spending with colleagues, friends…
As coronavirus is making us stay at home these days, we’re relying more than ever on technology to keep in touch with work, family and friends. The Paprika Museum now picks a Hungarian cabaret scene that describes life in an apartment house in 1958 Budapest. Isn’t it ironic where humour comes from? 1958 Budapest, when…
Egg-painting, cooked ham and early-morning sprinkling of women and girls are all part of the Easter folk tradition in Hungary. In 2020 we might celebrate the holiday differently, some of the traditions will be definitely observed despite the quarantine. The Paprika Museum brings egg-decoration tips and paprika breadspreads to you for Easter. What do we…
March for Szeged people normally is the time to remember and celebrate the River Tisza. March 22 is World Water Day and March 12 is Flood Day in Szeged. This March we’re so preoccupied with the COVID-19 epidemic that we seem to have forgotten about the anniversary of the 1879 Great Flood of Szeged. I’d…
Although we’re experiencing a short winter return and COVID-19 virus news is depressing, let’s not forget to notice and feel grateful for SPRING coming. 25 March takes a special place in the Christian and rural folk calendar: it is the Feast of the Annunciation or Lady Day in the Christian Calendar. Hungarian language is beautifully…
As the coronavirus disease is making us stay at home these days, we picked an old Hungarian cabaret scene that describes life in an apartment house in 1958 Budapest. Home, sweet home might sound ironic, but we all need a little laugh nowadays. Pesti paprika on radio In 1958 the Hungarian Radio broadcast a three-part…
Capsaicin is a compound in chilis and paprikas that causes hot sensation in the mouth. We’ve written about it before, people like to hear about it in the Paprika Museum, but we like to return to the topic, because it is the capsaicin that makes spice paprika popular as food. Hot food is thought to…
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