Friday, June 29, 2007

A Gastronomous Proportion of Chicken Goulash


Being the lucky girl that I am I had the pleasure of walking into the opening of the Hungarian annual Gastronomz Festival held at the gardens of the Royal Palace. 1500 Florents (4 Euros) gets you four days of entry, all you can manage free tastings, and hours and hours of entertainment by local performance artists.

The grand opening was marked by a gypsy dance troop which enthrawed the drunken crowd with a mock execution followed by an evening of tap dancing. The festival was a showcase of over 200 companies (half of them being alchohol producers) of varying sizes selling all sorts of stuff I've never seen before. But one thing seems to stay the same - they add paparika to everything they eat!! Some of the high lights included a giant chicken goulash stewed in the biggest paella plate I've seen in my life, goose pate, traditional pasta cooked on open fire, giant pig trotter sausages, savoury plum jam and sweet dumplings with caramel fillings. Low light definitely goes to the shot of apricot liquer which burnt the rest of my oesophagus lining and ruled out tastings for the rest of the day...

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