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...played with the Hungarian national team six times, including this past summer when her team placed 10th in the European championships...
Gloomy Sunday was an international pop hit of 1933, written by a couple of denizens of the Hungarian equivalent of Tin Pan Alley and made famous in the U.S. by Billie Holiday. The movie of the same title imagines a more romantic genesis. It has the piece written by a broody piano player (Stefano Dionisi) at a restaurant as a seemingly hopeless love offering to its manager (Erika Marozsan), who is the mistress of its wry, civilized owner (Joachim Krol...
...arrived a generation ago, they don't find many places that their stomachs can call home. The city has only a dozen Eastern European restaurants. The most prominent: Le Grand Mayeur, a Slavic restaurant with terrific borscht and blini; and Le Jardin de Budapest and Hungaria, both offering Hungarian specialties like stuffed cabbage and Hungarian sauerkraut. For Slovaks, Poles, Estonians and Slovenians, though, the only way to get home cooking is to cook it at home. Luckily, shops like Polskie Delikatesy, Le Roi du Jambon and Charcuterie Hongroise import meats, pickles, spices and canned sauerkraut. But sometimes you can find...
...Edward Teller's intense concern with the menace of tyranny traces back to his Hungarian childhood. When Teller was born, in 1908, into a Jewish family with culture and money, citizens of gay, well-fed Budapest could believe that the world was solid, dependable. But Austria-Hungary got into World War I on the losing side, and the seemingly solid world crumbled ... With the nation's life disrupted and anti-Semitism rampant, Teller's father dinned into his son two grim lessons: 1) he would have to emigrate to some more favorable country when he grew...
What is the Hungarian secret to an active sexual lifestyle? “Once you have made love to a man who eats Goulash, you will never go back,” says Gaty. Perhaps Frappucinos and Big Macs are deterring the American sexual appetite. (Still, according to the survey, Americans are getting more than their share of cybersex: Supposedly, 54 percent of Americans have had sex via phone, e-mail or text message...