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Sólet

Ingredients:

salt

pepper

sweet paprika
pearl barley (gershli)
large white beans
smoked goose breast(Adam orders from a poultry specialist who smokes his own and delivers them once each week when chulent is on the menu)
garlic
eggs
goose fat/grease/drippings

In a heavy cast iron post, mix the beans together with salt, pepper, sweet paprika and goose fat, then cover and leave for an hour at room temperature.

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Utazás Baumhorn Lipót nyomában

BUDAPEST -- Back in the early 1990s, I picked my way through Budapest's enormous main Jewish cemetery, trying to find the grave of Lipot Baumhorn, an architect who was long-forgotten but whose body of work once held pride of place in cities and towns the length and breadth of Hungary.

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Utazás Tokajba

Wine merchants and wonder. Off the beaten path in northeastern Hungary

Tens of thousands of Jewish tourists make their way every year to Budapest. The Hungarian capital is a bustling and cosmopolitan city of 2 million that offers plenty for Jewish and non-Jewish tourists alike - and not only that, it is home to a large and lively Jewish community.

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A 7. kerületi zsidó negyed

BUDAPEST -- The last time I wrote about Budapest on Centropa I provided an itinerary of Jewish sights and resources, most of them in and around the city's Seventh District, the old downtown Jewish quarter anchored by three grand synagogues forming a so-called "Jewish triangle." 

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