desserts

May 26 '09

Hungarian Cakes Conquering Japan, Jersey

Last week saw some interesting Hungarian food news from two far-away points on the globe. First, according to daily Népszabadság, an outlet of the famed Gerbeaud Cukrászda will soon be opened in Tokyo. The project, which has been underway for...

Aug 19 '08

A Bittersweet Celebration of Culinary Complexity

[Editor's note: When we heard several weeks ago that Hungary's National Trade Guild of Hungarian Confectioner Industrialists had published a recipe for a 2008 "national cake," we gave Chew.hu co-editor (and baker extraordinaire) Carolyn Bánfalvi the task of trying...

Nov 16 '07

Deep-Fried Friday (II): Going Mad for Transylvania's "Angry" Donuts

Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár is a city on the move, as only a town with three names can be. Part of a booming portion of formerly Hungarian-ruled Transylvania, it is the seat of a young but burgeoning wine industry, a hot-spot with...