In an entertaining article in the Washington Post last week by Jane Black she discussed how much spelling and grammar mistakes on restaurant menus bother her. Here’s her fantasy:
I enter a restaurant, order and sweetly ask the waiter if I can “hold on to the menu” during dinner. Then, using a distinctive purple pen, I [...]
June 22, 2008
On Menus, Spelling, and Translation
June 11, 2008
Book Reviews
Food Wine Budapest doesn’t officially come out until next week (Tuesday to be exact), and it has already gotten a few nice reviews. One of my favorite websites, Chow.com has written it up, and so has author/journalist John Mariani. In fact, Mariani has listed it as one of the “best food and drink books [...]
May 25, 2008
Balaton’s Best
We end up going to Lake Balaton at least once a year, sometimes more. But, I have to admit, I am not a big fan of the lake itself. I do love looking at it, preferably from the terrace of a restaurant, with a glass of wine in my hand. But, although I try every [...]
March 28, 2008
Busy, Busy, Busy
This blog has been pretty neglected over the past few months. But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been writing. In fact, I have too much interesting stuff on my plate right now, which has left no time for paying attention to this poor blog.
I have been contributing to Chew.hu on and off for awhile [...]
February 12, 2008
Mangalica Madness
Since I’ve been living in Budapest I’ve been eating more pork than I ever have before in my life. And the pork here is great. It’s definitely the meat of choice, and meat from the Mangalica pig–a heritage breed that nearly died out during the Communist-era–is the choicest kind of pork. We happened to be [...]
January 29, 2008
Cute Vintage Sausage Commercial
Robyn Lee over at Serious Eats posted this funny old Hungarian sausage commercial. If you’re really interested, check Lee’s post for the lyrics.
And, here’s another for sour cream:
January 23, 2008
No, not even one drink…
If you’re out drinking, don’t even think about getting behind the wheel in Hungary. According to the new rules, any amount of alcohol is too much, and your license can be immediately seized if there’s any evidence that you’ve had even a drop. While there’s no reason to drive in Budapest anyway since the public [...]
January 22, 2008
Eating Like a Kid
Our two year-old daughter has been eating solids since she was five months old and has gone through many dramatic food phases since then. In the beginning she loved plain yogurt, and sometimes ate two, or even three, at one sitting. And she hated milk. The one time that her aunt tried to feed her [...]
