In the Hungarian calendar we call the 12th, 13th and 14th of May as the name or feast-days of St. Pancras, St. Servatius and St. Boniface of Tarsus respectively. These three saints are referred to as the Ice Saints in many European countries and this name comes from the traditional belief that frost is likely…
The third week of May has been pretty busy for PaprikaMolnar: after several starts and stops and restarts we eventually transplanted our paprika seedlings to their final place in our farm. It’s a small plot of land this year, but planting has never been so hard with rain coming down every day, between which we…
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…