Paprika is the heart of hungarian cuisine and the traditions go all the way back to the first hungarians and some of the dishes have been cooked the same way for hundreds of years traditional hungarian food is mostly based on meat seasonal vegetables dairy products and cheese. Middle class hungarians established austrian dishes in their everyday meals like schnitzel sausages potatoes and vegetable stews thickened with flour and lard todays fozelek hungarian cuisine today at the turn of the last century excellent hungarian chefs laid the foundations of todays hungarian cuisine. If youre at all into hungarian cuisine george lang is an essential if you dont think youre particularly interested in hungarian food and believe me you are missing a lot this is a great book to get just for the desserts and specifically the cakes ive baked many of them and they are to die for your guests will not stop talking this is slow food as it was meant to be same for the