A colleague of ours, Eva, shared this lovely family story with us. The story is made of paprika bags, commercial opportunities and some colourful people from the Szeged region. But most of all it portrays the ingenius creativity of women. Smuggling paprika bags. Background of the story During the early years of communism (1950’s) free…
Albert Szent-Györgyi is one of the few Hungarian scientists who has gained big recognition all over the world. The Nobel Prize-winning researcher awarded for isolating vitamin C is certainly one of the most exciting personalities ever. Many people might know that he used paprika for his breakthrough research. But only few people know that this…
Nálam nem az újévhez kötődik az új kezdet, az újratervezés ideje, hanem szeptember elsejéhez, az új tanévhez. Ez lehet, hogy azért van, mert végzettségem szerint tanár vagyok és pontosan emlékszem tanár koromból, hogyan kezdtem neki a tanévnek: tervekkel, elhatározásokkal és tenni akarással. Az idén videokészítésbe vágtam bele: elindítottam a PaprikaMolnár youtube csatornáját és feltettem az…
In our latest post on Hungaricums we shortly mentioned the famous sausages from Csaba and Gyula. Both of these places are located in Békés county in the south eastern part of Hungary. The history of the two types of tasty sausage shows some parallels with the history of Szeged paprika. Thick sausage or salami from…
How to decorate with paprika? Szeged people 100 years ago were probably unaware what a beautiful sight they were producing when they strung the paprika fruits into long garlands and hung them up for drying. It was work for them, and for that matter, it was really hard work. For an outsider, a dreamer, a…
Here’s a step-by-step process description of Hungarian paprika production. What about the process from paprika to paprikash? We looked at the process, broke it down into steps, asked Vera to draw the images for us and added our insights. We collected about 100 things to know and short-listed 20+ for you. Learn and enjoy!
The photos below of snow and paprika I took a few years ago. Even though the snow is gone by now, the photos convey a sense of festivity we are having over the winter holidays in PaprikaMolnár’s Paprika Museum, Röszke, Hungary. Wishing you good health, success and happiness for the coming year!
Saint Andrew’s day on the 30th November is nearing. In olden times this day was special for girls because on the eve of the day they could predict their future husband. For farmers in general, however, it had a more universal significance: it marked the end of the agricultural year and as cold weather set…
„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…
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…
Between 18-27 May 2018 we are celebrating Szeged City. There will be a series of events and festivities to remember and commemorate Szeged earning a city status in medieval times. The quotation „Paprika put Szeged on the map of the world” comes from a Hungarian American from a hundred years ago and it highlights the…