Monthly Archives: December 2016

Hungary for a new adventure – Flavors of Budapest – a New York Caesar Salad

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Well, friends, this is it. My last full day in Budapest or, I should say, in Pest because while I’ll cross part of the Danube, it will only be as far as Margaret Island and not all the way to …

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Hungary for a new adventure – Flavors of Budapest – would you believe pizza? – part 4

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On the Beautiful Blue Danube. I’ll start this section with these questions: Does my header for this section have you hearing this? And if you weren’t hearing it before, is it an ear worm now? I am not, as Barbara …

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Hungary for a new adventure – Flavors of Budapest – would you believe pizza? – part 3

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Terror follows pizza (and I don’t mean lactose intolerance). I didn’t think our time at Shoes Along the Danube or in the October 1956 memorial under Kossuth Square had yet sufficiently atoned for yesterday’s phallic frivolity at the Market so …

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Hungary for a new adventure – Flavors of Budapest – would you believe pizza? – part 2

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Gyula Andrássy. The posts I wrote about Hungarian history while lengthy in combination were far from comprehensive. Among the influential Hungarians I haven’t discussed is Gyula Andrássy – honored by the statue in the photo at the end of the …

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Hungary for a new adventure – Flavors of Budapest – would you believe pizza?

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In case you’re wondering, today’s story takes place on Thursday, 25 August and I left the U S on 7 August so, in the context of the trip, we’ll spend today and tomorrow in Budapest and then I’ll be home. …

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