The heat is back in Budapest, and lately it has been too hot to cook and too hot to walk to the market. But it’s not too hot to crack open a bottle of rosé in the evening, and to eat chilled cherry soup for lunch. Check out my guest posts on the Appetizer blog [...]
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 [...]
If you’re in a place where the BBC’s Olive magazine is available, my article “48 Hours in Budapest” was published in the January issue. In Budapest, it’s available with a very high mark-up (2,550 HUF!) at Bestsellers. The article includes food-themed recommendations for a Budapest weekend.
Things have been slow around here lately since our new mouth to feed arrived a few weeks ago. She’s getting settled, and is already very hungry.
Writing a Book:
Sitting down at the computer to actually start writing a book is quite an intimidating task. Looking at the screen–knowing that the blankness has to be turned into an entire book of a certain length in a certain amount of time–was overwhelming, to say the least. But not as much as it could [...]
Publishers and Contracts:
I don’t know whether or not this was the right decision, but I decided to find a publisher on my own rather than going through an agent. It wasn’t because I was trying to avoid the 15 percent agent’s cut, but because I thought that the book would be too much of a [...]
The Pre-Book Phase:
I can’t say exactly when the idea for writing this book occurred to me. It happened gradually, after I moved to Budapest and began attempting to find my way around the city’s food scene. I quickly realized that I was going to get little help from most of my guidebooks, which had restaurant [...]
How Books Are Made:
Before I began writing my culinary guidebook to Budapest and Hungary, and even during the process of writing it, I had no idea how much work really went into publishing one single book. (My book, by the way, has turned into two separate books somewhere along the way). Since there are [...]
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