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Traditional hungarian folk outfits for sale

Gamo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:19:21 GMT

1 ensemble skirt, blouse and mantel 100 $ would fit a small petite woman or teen
1 heavy cotton hand embroidery traditional blouse 100 $ size large
pics and more info at valeriebachner@gmail.com

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Hungarian Music and crafts for sale

Gamo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:23:15 GMT

Traditional Hungarian songs 101 ballada Nagy Miklos 10 usd
Kodaly Zoltan A Magyar Nepzene 20 usd
Les danses populaires hongroises Martin Gyorgy 10 usd
Hungarian domestic embroidery 10 usd
Hungarian Folk design Ann Szalavary 10 usd
Viking patterns for knitting not Hungarian.. 10 usd
Art Populaire Hongrois Hofer Tamas es Fel Edith 30 usd
as tribe craps out all the time can you please contact me with to the following email
valeriebachner@gmail.com

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well, isn't this... handy

OtherMichael — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:31:25 GMT

http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/hungarian.htm

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Nokerli

muppets78 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:39:15 GMT

Otherwise known as "Spaetzle". Does anyone have a good recipe for this sidedish? I'm thinking of inviting some Russian and American friends for dinner in a couple weeks and wanted to make this alongside the chicken paprikas.

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Ismeretlen

Pink — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:02:53 GMT

what does the word "ismeretlen" mean?

it's listed as a Genre in a Cseh Tamas track i found.

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Cseh Tamas

Pink — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:16:30 GMT

Hi

I am trying to get/find CDs of Cseh Tamas and can't seem to find a place where I can get them anywhere.

If someone could help me I would be much appreciative

Cheers

Pink

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Budapest in Dec

*NetworkGirl* — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:55:38 GMT

Hello, my friend and I are going to Budapest in Dec. we will be there 3 nights, what do you suggest for us, we both enjoy dancing and we are on a budget...

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Watsu 1 in Budapest

Gamo — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:38:44 GMT

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with Basia Szpak-Borst LMT, Acupuncturist and Certified Watsu Instructor

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In collaboration with WABA World Aquatic Bodywork,Association, and Watsu Europe
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Certificate issued upon completion
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Auditor fee €350

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Húsvéti Locsolás - the Easter Sprinkling

OtherMichael — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:07:51 GMT

http://www.hungarotips.com/customs/locsol.html
http://www.jcu.edu/language/hunghemu/hungh6AS.html

Korán reggel
útra keltem,
Se nem ittam,
se nem ettem.
Tarisznya
húzza
a vállam,
Térdig kopott
már a lábam.
Bejártam
a fél világot,
Láttam
sok-sok
szép virágot.
A legszebbre
most
találtam,
Hogy
öntözzem,
alig vártam.
Piros tojás,
fehér nyuszi,
Locsolásért
jár a puszi!

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Waszlavik Gazember

OtherMichael — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:07:01 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=waszlavik&search=Search
http://www.waszlavik.hu/index.html

I don't search the web enough -- my favorite (Hungarian) musican has a website and downloadable videos. One of them my favorites song.

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speak up! (mondj fel)

OtherMichael — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:46:11 GMT

http://speak.index.hu/
http://www.metafilter.com/59175/Hungarian-Rapper

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hungarian folk national ensemble

Gamo — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:31:04 GMT

Went yesterday nigth was a bit leary since it usually calls for sirupy old gypsy thingy... but no... although geared for show it gives u a good taste...

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Hungarian embroidery

Gamo — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:20:33 GMT

Hello!!

I am entering a period of my life where I am very crafty...

I am looking for books and patterns of different styles of hungarian embroidery in English or French or spanish... not in hungarian Notm uch luck so far....

Any input?
Thank you csiatok!
Ginny

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jaj, de edes!

OtherMichael — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:28:31 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/dining/27wine.html

December 27, 2006
Wines of The Times
Hungary Returns to a Sweet Past
By ERIC ASIMOV

AS with the first person to have eaten a lobster, it took a brave soul to have first made wine from grapes infected with Botrytis cinerea, the noble rot. The fungus attacks the fruit, absorbing water and shriveling skins, and a metamorphosis takes place as ripe, healthy grapes shrink into a ghastly, desiccated mass.

That ancient plunge into seeming peril was telling. Almost always, making great sweet wines requires taking great risks. Whether it’s encouraging botrytis, which intensifies the sweetness and adds a gorgeous honeyed aroma, or leaving certain grapes to hang long after others have been picked, hoping that they will become lusciously sweet, that it won’t rain and that animals won’t eat them, or even allowing the grapes to freeze in hopes of concentrating the juice to nectarlike levels, the costs of time and labor are high, and the chances of failure are great.

For these reasons alone, elevated prices seem understandable for sweet wines that haven’t been produced through technological shortcuts. They are not everyday wines by any means, which makes them ideal for special occasions like the holidays, when the sweetness of life is celebrated through cookies, cakes and other desserts. The exquisite perfume and lush, rich flavors of a great sweet wine are a sublime counterpoint.

Sauternes, of course, is the best known of all sweet wines. Germany is renowned for its sweet wines as well, as are Vouvray, Alsace, certain parts of Italy and even Australia. Yet one of the greatest and most unusual sweet wines is one of the least known, Tokaji aszu, which for centuries has been made in the Tokaj-Hegyalja region of Hungary.

To try a good Tokaji aszu (pronounced TOKE-eye-ee AHS-oo) for the first time is a revelation. The color of a wine of recent vintage, say six or seven years old, is already a shocking orange bordering on red, and it can be rich, thick and lavishly sweet, with the flavors of dried apricots and oranges. Yet a high acidity keeps the wine in a thrilling balance, teetering between cloying and syrupy on one side and overly harsh on the other. Though far sweeter than a Sauternes, a Tokaji aszu will generally be more refreshing because of the higher acidity.

The trick is finding a good Tokaji aszu. With that in mind, Florence Fabricant and I were joined by two guests, Paul Grieco, an owner and general manager of Hearth in the East Village, and Richard Luftig, wine director of Cookshop in Chelsea, as the wine panel tasted 17 bottles of Tokaji aszu. While we found wines we adored, we also found bottles that seemed flawed, indicating uncertainty in an industry that, despite its long and illustrious history, is paradoxically very young.

The Hungarian wine industry was reborn after the overthrow of the Communist government, which capped more than a century of difficulties, despair and neglect for the once-great Hungarian wines. In fact, the first documented discovery of the noble rot was not in France, but in Hungary, in the late 16th or early 17th century, when growers found that the shriveled, rotten grapes, called aszu, produced a wonderfully sweet, unctuously honeyed wine. When they mixed the sweet wine with a dry base they created the model that Tokaji aszu has followed ever since.

Tokaji aszu became celebrated, favored by royal families throughout Europe. But phylloxera hit Hungarian vineyards hard in the late 19th century and they were slow to recover. Then, swiftly, came World War I and the crumbling of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, World War II and then the rise of Communism. The industry was controlled by the state, which for the most part made insipid wine in big cooperatives rather than offering the incentive necessary for the painstaking work required to produce Tokaji aszu.

The 1990s saw tremendous progress in the reawakening of the Hungarian wine industry, propelled mostly by outside investment. Among those now in the Hungarian wine business are Anthony Hwang, an owner of Domaine Huet in Vouvray, whose estate, Kiralyudvar, made our top-rated wine; Vega Sicilia, the great Spanish producer, which owns Oremus; and AXA, the French insurance giant whose wine holdings include several prominent Bordeaux chateaus, which owns Disznoko. But the most prominent name in Tokaji aszu, and certainly the easiest for Americans to pronounce, is the Royal Tokaji Company, whose shareholders include the wine writer Hugh Johnson. Royal made 4 of the 17 wines we tasted. All made it to our top 10.

Tokaji aszu is unique not only because of the indigenous Hungarian grapes used in the blend — primarily furmint but also harslevelu, muscat blanc, zeta and koverszolo — but because of the method used to make the wine. Grapes without any botrytis are harvested and made into a base wine. The aszu grapes are picked separately and made into a paste, which is added to the base wine in various proportions. In the old days the proportions were measured in puttonyos. A puttony is a hod, as the old carrying vessels were called, so five puttonyos, for example, meant that a cask of base wine had been blended with five hods of aszu paste. Nowadays the puttonyos number corresponds with the amount of residual sugar in the wine.

We tasted several wines of three or four puttonyos, but they all seemed unbalanced. Quality takes a definite step upwards at five puttonyos, and so does price, though our best value, the 2000 five puttonyos Red Label from Royal Tokaji, is an excellent introduction at $35, exhibiting a fine balance between fruity sweetness and taut acidity. Our top three bottles were all six puttonyos wines, which don’t get much better than the ambrosial 1999 Kiralyudvar Lapis. At $122, though, it’s not cheap, and we also very much liked the perfumed, floral ’99 Oremus at $69, and the elegant 1999 Tokaj-Hetszolo Szolobirtok at $65.

What lies beyond six puttonyos? At that point, my friends, you are truly talking about nectar of the gods. The free-run juice of aszu grapes, unblended with a base wine, may take years to ferment because of the astronomical sugar level, and may only reach 4 or 5 percent alcohol rather than the more typical 11 percent. The resulting wine, eszencia, is almost excruciatingly intense, wildly expensive and rarely seen. As with many fantasy scenarios, it’s maybe better off relegated to the imagination.

A sort of pretend eszencia exists, though, called aszueszencia. We had one bottle, a 2000 Chateau Henye, that was syrupy and almost oozing. It was undeniably complex, but a little bit went a very long way.

Tasting Report: A Wine You Can Almost Eat With a Spoon

Kiralyudvar Lapis 6 Puttonyos 1999
$122
***½
Like orange and apricot slowly caramelized in butter; honey rich, elegant and beautifully balanced. (Importer: Robert Chadderdon, New York)

Oremus 6 Puttonyos 1999
$69
***
Rich and lively, with a floral perfume and lingering fruit and nut flavors. (Europvin, Oakland, Calif.)

Tokaj-Hetszolo Szolobirtok 6 Puttonyos 1999
$65
***
Elegant, balanced and concentrated, with complex floral and apricot flavors. (Monarchia Selections/USA Wine Imports, New York)

BEST VALUE
Royal Tokaji Company Red Label 5 Puttonyos 2000
$35
**½
Lively, balanced and refreshing, with rich apricot and orange flavors. (Wilson Daniels, St. Helena, Calif.)

Chateau Pajzos 5 Puttonyos 1999
$44
**½
Lush, with flavors of peach and mint. (V.O.S. Selections, New York)

Royal Tokaji Company Szt. Tamas 6 Puttonyos 1995
$75
**½
High-toned and balanced with long, lingering fruit and nut flavors and lively acidity. (Wilson Daniels, St. Helena, Calif.)

Chateau Henye Tokaji Aszueszencia 2000
$70
**½
Oozy and unctuous bordering on cloying, with floral, butter and pine aromas and flavors. (Wine Source Selections, South Kearny, N.J.)

Royal Tokaji Company Nyulaszo 6 Puttonyos 1995
$95
**
Sweet and nutlike but lacks depth. (Wilson Daniels, St. Helena, Calif.)

Disznoko 4 Puttonyos 2000
$34
*½
Lovely rich aroma, yet overly acidic and out of balance on the palate. (W. J. Deutsch & Sons, Harrison, N.Y.)

Royal Tokaji Company Betsek 6 Puttonyos 1999
$75
*½
Luscious aromas of ginger and fruit, but acidity overwhelms. (Wilson Daniels, St. Helena, Calif.)

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It was very funny, the Czechs, next to the Hungarians, next to the Germans — just as it was in Europe.

OtherMichael — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:34:25 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/arts/07manh.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

pril 7, 2006
My Manhattan
On the Upper East Side, Memories Fueled by Strudel
By JOSEPH BERGER

ONCE, New York's Mitteleuropeans lived side by side along Second Avenue, with the Czechs and Slovaks lodged in the walk-ups of the upper 60's and the 70's, the Hungarians occupying the low 80's, and the Germans in the high 80's and 90's.

"It was very funny, the Czechs, next to the Hungarians, next to the Germans — just as it was in Europe," is the way Jan Hird Pokorny, a courtly 91-year-old Czech, put it, with the kind of droll appreciation of life's odd arrangements that itself was an emblem of that Old World culture.

The days of ubiquitous Gemütlichkeit on the Upper East Side seemed to vanish toward the last decades of the 20th century, as terraced high-rises replaced working-class tenements, and the striver children and grandchildren of the immigrants fanned out to Queens and the suburbs.

But those immigrant cultures are not entirely dead. A weekend anthropologist can find more than a few wizened survivors and still pulsing cultural remnants scattered among the raucous singles bars, nail salons and fusion restaurants.

Walk along Second Avenue or the blocks branching off it, and you'll spot churches with services at least partly in Hungarian (Hungarian Reformed Church), German (St. Joseph's Yorkville) or Slovak (St. John Nepomucene). Sadly, Paprika Weiss, once the Hungarian Zabar's, has been missing for roughly 10 years, its barrels of creamy apricot and prune lekvar a haunting taste-bud memory. But there are two ethnic food shops where pork sausages and salamis hang in the windows like vertical Venetian blinds, two heart-clogging bakeries, an irresistible marzipan shop and perhaps the nation's only Hungarian bookstore, a hole in the wall rather grandiosely named Blue Danube Gifts.

The little that is left emerges more fragrantly this time of year, as those who remain prepare for services and get-togethers on Easter, and stores like Schaller & Weber — German products since 1937 — and the slightly older Elk Candy Company decorate their windows with bunnies and eggs made out of things bunnies and eggs were never meant to be made of. Glaser's Bake Shop is already fashioning its funny bunnies — confections that combine cake and chocolate and sell for $3.50 each. Yorkville Meat Emporium, once unapologetically Hungarian, is bringing out smoked hams dried for four months, especially for Easter. Throughout the neighborhood, Hungarian boys are preparing to celebrate the day after Easter with an old custom — going to the homes of girls and spraying them with a scent of spring — even if it is cheap perfume. At the First Hungarian Literary Society, a 117-year-old private club on East 79th Street, whose members, mostly Jewish, generally don't celebrate Easter, there are nonetheless more hands of gin rummy played and more plates of wiener schnitzel served because the snowbirds are returning from their Florida sabbaticals. The long-dormant Bohemian National Hall (Narodni Budova), the gray-stone shrine of Czech life, is in the midst of renovation. But its Dvorak Room — an exhibition space with a fireplace rescued from the composer's demolished Manhattan row house — as well as a library with a sizable Vaclav Havel collection are already in use.

The neighborhood has always resonated for me, even though my roots are among the Jews of Poland. After all, the dignified manners and the dense food — goulash, dumplings, horseradish, schnitzel, strudel — did not obey national boundaries, which kept shifting in any case. It was always a wistful return to a region I tasted only in infancy to dine at Mocca on goulash and nockerl — slender dumplings my parents called kliskelekh — and on palacsintas, a more refined variant of blintzes. The restaurant's molded tin ceilings, naïve Hungarian crafts and a jaded blond waitress, known to all as Magda, gave the place the proper Continental coziness.

Mocca closed in 2004, facing rising rents. But, displaying American pragmatism, it merged with a diner a few doors down, and the unlikely alloy is called Frankie's and Mocca. You can have goulash, while the table next to yours is having a tuna melt. Magda is gone, but a younger Hungarian, Gabriella Zadori, is there, as is a Mexican chef who has been cooking Hungarian for 20 years. The nockerl was as good as I remembered, and the palacsintas only slightly less so.

A more colorful remnant of Hungarian life is Blue Danube Gifts on East 83rd Street. Its owner, Melinda Bartos, will sell you novels by Hungarian writers like Imre Kertesz, a 2002 Nobel Prize winner, and Sandor Marai, but it also has "The Da Vinci Code" in Hungarian. It has Playboy and Cosmopolitan in Hungarian, newspapers like Magyar Szo (The Hungarian Word) and CD's by the gypsy singer Apollonia Kovacs. There aren't enough Hungarians left in the neighborhood to support even so tiny a shop, but Szolt Rozsavolgyi, a construction company driver from Brooklyn, was there the other day to buy a present for his wife's name day.

Francesca Sagi, a resident East Side Hungarian, remembered that when she came from Hungary in 1971, she could stroll Second Avenue, and "it reminded me of walking around Budapest." She still goes to Yorkville Meat Emporium for potato bread and stuffed cabbage, but her jauntiness is muted.

"This one died, and that one died," she said. "It's sad when you see it getting smaller and smaller and smaller."

The First Hungarian Literary Society should be pickled; its way of life is endangered. Every afternoon, elderly Hungarians gather to play gin rummy or backgammon and reminisce about the old days, in the actual Budapest as well as in Manhattan's vanished Little Budapest. With Old World formality, men put on ties, and the women splash on jewelry just to play cards. The Hungarian talk is salted with a tart wit, though it sometimes touches on Auschwitz or Buchenwald, where many members spent time.

"As they lose a husband or wife, it's the only place they can come," said Steven Kaldor, the club's chairman. "It's their second home."

The club is down to 350 members who pay an annual fee of $100. It would go under if it didn't own the building; there's a rent-paying restaurant on the ground floor.

The exodus of white ethnics really began with the tearing down of the Third Avenue El, which meant affluent people could think of moving east rather than confining themselves to Silk Stocking avenues like Park. The ensuing juggernaut of terraced high-rises swallowed many of the working-class walk-ups and the mom-and-pop shops where the Mitteleuropeans lived and went about their routines. Old age did the rest.

Even into the 1980's and 90's, the neighborhood supported Czech and Hungarian restaurants like Csarda, Praha and the Red Tulip; German places like Cafe Geiger and Ideal; and pastry cafes where Germans could indulge their custom of a formal afternoon tea with good china and heavy cake. Mr. Kaldor reminisced how Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda Gabor and their mother held court 45 years ago at Budapest, which regulars called Mrs. Terhes after a compatriot who whipped together the chicken paprikash. Those places are all ghosts.

Mr. Pokorny, born in 1914 in Brno, came to the United States in 1940 as a young architect to escape the Nazi occupation and to deepen his architecture studies at Columbia University. At that time, he estimates, the East Side had 40,000 Czechs, many of them workers at two Czech-owned cigar factories.

"When you walked the streets, you heard Czech spoken," he said, with a delighted glint behind his tortoise-shell glasses.

The center of social life was Bohemian Hall — which had a restaurant, a bowling alley, even a shooting range. Mr. Pokorny, a specialist in preservation, is spearheading the renovations so that Czechs can preserve some culture. He himself is a preserved specimen of the gallant European, a breed that has almost vanished in the razzle-dazzle of modern life.

At Jan Hus church on East 74th Street, built in 1888 and named after a Czech martyr, the Rev. Moira Ahearne told me that the active Czech congregation was down to two members and that, as her Irish name suggests, the church hadn't had a Czech pastor since the 1960's. One of the two Czech congregants, Rose Luchart, 94, who has lived in the same red-brick walk-up on 73rd Street for 70 years, remembered with affection an after-school that they called the "soup school" because it offered soup along with lessons in Czech to the mostly poor children. She used to translate letters from the homeland into English but seldom gets called to do so now.

"The city started to build these big houses, and we had to move," she said. "Everybody was sort of angry about it."

The neighborhood is down to one genuine Central European dining spot — the Heidelberg, on Second Avenue, just off 86th Street, where dark timbers, antlers and steins of dark beer provide the Teutonic atmosphere. My wife and I dined on a crispy roast duck and sauerbraten, both served with red cabbage by waiters dressed in lederhosen, though one admitted that he was from California.

The hearty ambience was almost enough to obscure a historic stain on Yorkville's reputation. The city's German community established Turnverein gymnastic centers and hatched industrialists like Pfizer in drugs, Ruppert in beer and Steinway in pianos, but in the years before World War II, it also provided fertile ground for the pro-Nazi German-American Bund.

The sad fact is that the remaining authentic Mitteleuropeans are very old and hidden away. The Rev. Stefan Chanas was imported from Slovakia in 2002 to help out at St. John Nepomucene, a barrel-vaulted church on First Avenue and 66th Street, built when the neighborhood had 7,000 Slovak families and seven Slovak restaurants. Now he visits the neighborhood's Slovaks in their railroad flats because they can no longer walk to church.

"I go visit them to hear confession," he said.

There is, however, at least one great survivor: Glaser's at First Avenue and 87th Street, a family bakery founded in 1902, when Theodore Roosevelt was president, and a loaf of bread cost 4 cents. The proprietors are the founder's grandsons Herbert Jr., who works the day shift — and John, who takes nights. Herbert, 53, remembered when he had a half dozen sturdy competitors, like Kramer's and Kleine Konditorei. Now he is king of the heap, but alone at the top. Once, customers with teeming families bought large cake wheels for dessert. Now, with so many singles in the neighborhood, his most popular item may be black-and-white cookies — not ethnic at all.

"Now people come in and say, 'I'll have one of those and one of those,' " he said.

Cockeyed optimists may even see a glimmer of rebirth. Last year, Andre's Cafe, a branch of a 30-year-old bakery in Forest Hills, Queens, opened on Second Avenue near 85th Street. Its owner is Andre Heimann, a Hungarian immigrant whose mother worked for the now extinct Mrs. Herbst's, a Hungarian bakery on Third Avenue whose flaky strudel filled with apple, cherry or even cabbage was legendary. The new Andre's also serves a flaky strudel. It too is filled with apple, cherry or even cabbage.

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Greetings!

CarrieKonyha — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:53:59 GMT

Hi !

I'm new to this tribe. I live in Sedona AZ but my family is from Budapest Hungary. Im particulary interested in any info on the surnames Konyha and Gabor. Im trying to research my geneology but little is known of my families history due to our family records being distroyed in the war.

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Famous Tantra Yoga Teacher coming to Budapest

Shakti_Jan — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:46:04 GMT

Weekend Tantra Yoga workshop with Bodhi Avinasha - World famous author teaches first course in Hungary
Ipsalu Tantra Kriya Yoga Level 1, "Learning to Live in Bliss"

July 7-9, 2006
in Budapest, Hungary

Break through your limitations - Discover your magnificence!

"Tantra is much more than glorified sex. Sexual Energy becomes a powerful tool for awakening True Self. You can live in bliss by just removing the obstructions. When the mind is still and the body flowing with primal energy, something remarkable happens—an alchemical merging of spirit and matter. You embody God and realize the presence of the Divine in all aspects of life." —Bodhi Avinasha

Benefits include: Increased health and well-being, emotional freedom, expanded intuitive abilities, playful, ecstatic awareness.

Bodhi Avinasha is co-author in Jewel in the Lotus: The Tantric Path to Higher Consciousness. Her latest book – The Ipsalu formula: A Method for Tantrabliss – weaves a cohesive, repeatable approach to producing Bliss as a living experience to enjoy now. In her soulful, down to earth style, Bodhi gets right to the heart of experience. She combines her wisdom, skill and compassion developed over 18 years of teaching around the world, and helping people to a discovery of higher states of being.

To reserve your place contact Aniko Tatar at (361) 246-2107 tatar.aniko@tantra-kriya.hu
for more information: http://www.tantralap.hu/index.php?m=tanfolyamok&p=tanfolyamok/tanfolyamok

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KultPlay

OtherMichael — Wed, 03 May 2006 12:50:03 GMT

http://kultplay.hu/index.php

(uhm, it's not loading for me at the moment....)

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Tavaszi Szél vizet áraszt

OtherMichael — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:42:35 GMT

http://index.hu/politika/bulvar/bkvs0403/

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in budapest next two days, any tips

iris — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:36:38 GMT

hey,
i am in budapest right now for two days, i plan to check out the gellert baths, the terror museum, and goulash, please give me some more advice, anyone.

and sorry, this keyboard is difficult so i canät tzpe much more+

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online translation tools?

ktmichael — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:51:03 GMT

Does anyone know of a good online english-hungarian, hungarian-english translation program, either just a dictionary, but preferably something that can translate a lot of content for websites, etc?

köszönöm!
ktm

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Subway Station Anagrams

OtherMichael — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:07:11 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/27/anagram_maps_for_mon.html

doesn't somebody (ie, not me) want to make one for Budapest?

http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/bud/budapest.htm
http://drott.cis.drexel.edu/hungary/budametro.html
http://www.talkingcities.co.uk/budapest_pages/sights_metro.htm
http://www.tramways.com/subways/budapest1/index.html

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Az elmúlt 25 év legszebb magyar tárgyai?

OtherMichael — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:12:47 GMT

http://index.hu/kultur/eletmod/magyardizajn/

even if you can't read the article, you can still vote!

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The Gourmet's Cookbook, Elek Magyar

OtherMichael — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:28:47 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9631314944/qid=1109172424/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-9020547-1320115?v=glance&s=books

When I was in Budapest for three years, I bought copies for my parents and a cousin. They cost 300-some forints at the time, an early-90s edition, hard-bound.

$70 is a bit steep for me, now that I want my own bloody copy. Any leads, folks?

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Unicum

OtherMichael — Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:53:18 GMT

good memories? bad? know how to get ahold of it stateside (for a reasonable price)?

a post from my blog:
http://xradiograph.tripod.com/blog/2002_12_01_xradiograph-archive.html#86593508

I have 1.5 bottles left....

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Getting to Budapest

Jaron — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:01:21 GMT

I'm going to Budapest in November and I was wondering if anyone knows about a good deal in terms of flights. I'm in Los Angeles. Thanks.

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new member

cosmo — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:58:08 GMT

hello everyone,I accidentally found this site,nobody told me theres a hung tribe here!!

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Her!??? in Hungarian

OtherMichael — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:27:07 GMT

http://kiccsajmegmalac.freeblog.hu/

The Hungarian translation of the webcomic "Girl vs Pig" http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/index.html just took 2nd place in the Hungarian Goldenblog competition

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going to Budapest soon?

Lisa — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:13:42 GMT

I have a couple of extra unused vonaljegy--single tickets--for the busses/trains. Just little 160 Ft tickets. But I hate to see 'em go to waste. Send me your address and I'll mail them to you.

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Hungarian restaurant in SF

The Duck — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 02:34:17 GMT

sziasztok,
does anybody know a good Hungarian restaurant in SF? I've heard of this Gypsy place and something called the Sausage Factory... And, where do you buy Hungarian wine in the Bay Area?

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Terror Museum

OtherMichael — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:22:57 GMT

The Museum, on 60 Andrassy ut, opened in 2002. It's the only museum in the world devoted to the victims of terror-regimes (in this case, the Fascists and the Communists)

http://www.terrorhaza.hu/index2.html - magyarul
http://www.terrorhaza.hu/terror0212148.html - angolul
http://www.museum.hu/search/museum_en.asp?id=952 - mashol

I was making a copy of A Tanu' (The Witness) last night, and got to talking to my girlfriend on what it was like to live during the communist-era (she was born in.... in the 70s, to be polite). I realized that in the three years I lived in BP, I never really asked anybody what it had been like .... before. We also got to talking about the '56 uprising, and how her parents and grandparents lived through that, and WWII as well (grandfather hid jews in the cellar).

I don't know how all of this escaped me when I was there. I knew about things like that, read a bit.... but I was more concerned with the food, the drink (tsk tsk tsk), the color of springtime, the remnants of history in architecture (bullet holes, ruins, romans, etc), and how products and shops were rapidly changing. I never really talked to anybody about their memories though.

Ah, youth is wasted on the young!

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hello Im new

timothyj — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 05:10:40 GMT

Iam Hungarian born in the US my father and his family were brought up in Erderly, Hungry

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Catullus, in Hungarian (among others)

OtherMichael — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:48:55 GMT

http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/h1.htm

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wikipedia on th' magyar nyelv

OtherMichael — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:35:41 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_language

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New Here

Nandi — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:11:03 GMT

So, I thought I would say hello.

Szia!

I'm the first person in my family born in the U.S. My father is from Budapest, my mother from Dunajuvaros. My first word was donut, in Hungarian. I try to go home every two years, but that doesn't always happen. I long to connect with my Hungarian roots here in the U.S., to meet others with similar heritage, experiences and to practice Hungarian so I'm not always so rusty when I get off the plane in Pest. ;o)

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Langos @ Fried Dough

OtherMichael — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:35:45 GMT

http://home.comcast.net/~osoono/ethnicdoughs/langos/langos.htm

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Rekla'mok

OtherMichael — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:37:02 GMT

http://reklamok.gergoke.hu/

101 Hungarian TV commercials from the 80s to the early 90s (by Istvan Sas).

I downloaded them all (language practice) and burned a VCD copy for my Hungarian girlfriend. She was both nostalgic and irritated: "there was no choice -- nothing else was available! es csunya volt!"

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Best Dobostorte Recipe

Dave___s — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:46:27 GMT

I tried making this one:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/104023

Not great, the cake was too leathery and the filling too buttery and not sweet enough. My grandmother's recipe is excellent but takes twice the time. I was also thinking of adding anise to the cake layers, since they are somewhat biscotti-like. Any suggestions for other recipes?

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anyone know of good thermal baths near NYC or SF?

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:34:58 GMT

I could use a good soak at the Gellert or Szecsenyi right now.
-Fiko

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Húsvét stb.

OtherMichael — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:58:48 GMT

http://magyar.org/ahm/index.php?projectid=4&menuid=112

I was attempting to find the Hungarian equivalent of "Palm Sunday" (Virágvasárnap) when I found this page. So I'm dropping it in here, as a note to self. P'rhaps somebody else might find it useful....

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Learn/Study Hungarian

OtherMichael — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:14:20 GMT

I'm studying again, may G-d have mercy on my soul.

Some resources I've found, please add to 'em!

http://dict.sztaki.hu/english-hungarian -- good EM/ME online dictionary
http://www.word2word.com/dice.html - many dictionaries (& where I found the above)
http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/links/link-hungarian.htm - a number of links that I haven't evaluated, but I saved for some reason.
http://www.hungarotips.com/hungarian/ - some basic lessons, and courses" by subscription" or something like that. Some useful pages
http://impulzus.sch.bme.hu/info/magyar.shtml - a basic introduction, more for tourists/backpackers and the sudden visitor. But... interesting.
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Hungarian.asp - supposedly sets you up with native-speakers to IM-practice. Haven't tried it out; don't know if there is a fee, or not
http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/Hungary/ - Google directory on Hungary, not specifically the language

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Coming to Budapest tomoro

Hagop — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:22:08 GMT

Hi all! I'm going to be in Budapest this wednesday 23rd - friday 25th and was wondering what you guys would reccomend I do? I love weird music, any nightclub / party reccomendations?

I'm staying at the Intercontinetal hotel, I'm going to be editing video

:)

Hagop

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Busojaras and Farsang

donna_f — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:38:38 GMT

As we gear uo to celebrate Mardi Gras / Carnival this weekend, let's not forget about the Hungarian versions of this festival! There are various Farsang festivities around Hungary this time of year, which I don't know much about. But the best party by far is Busojaras, which only happens in Mohacs, the last stop on the Danube before you cross into Croatia. I've got an article about Busojaras and Mohacs on my website if anyone's interested: http://www.lmntl.com/mohacs.html

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Karacsony-Beigli...BUEK

julia_voiceofroma — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:16:06 GMT

Kellemes Karacsonyi Unnepeket es Boldog Uj Evet (BUEK)

In case you don't speak Hungarian:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I am baking the traditional "Bigli" dios (walnuts) and makos (popyseed) and cooking up a Big pot of "Toltottkaposzta" Stuffed cabbage and a roasted Gees.

My tree is full with "Szaloncukor"

Peace,

Julia

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Jo Etvagyat!

julia_voiceofroma — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 16:59:48 GMT

Sziasztok, Hi,
Since I am not sure how many of you speaks Hungarian I will write in English the best I know. Some times I mix it with Hungarian just to add the flavor to it.
I am Julia in San Francisco.
I have a restaurant(Bistro E Europe:www.bistroe.com) where I cook and serve Traditional Hungarian and other Eastern European Food.
I like to share with you my knowledge of Home Style Hungarian Cooking.
So if anybody have any question please ASK.
"Szivesen valaszolok".

For start here is the main source for Hungarian Goods; PAPRIKA, KOLBASZ, SZALAMI, SZALONA, SAVANYUSAG, TURO, ETC. in San Francisco; EUROPEAN FOOD, 3038 CLEMENT ST AT 32ND AV.
415-750-0504

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Korheley Leves?

Gabriella — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:26:25 GMT

Hi all -any one have a recipe for this one? I had some at Hortobagy in L.A. last week. My mom said it was 'hangover soup' and basically was a tangy (and delicious) concoction of cabbage and meat. I couldn't get the waitress to divulge the particulars of the ingredients -but dang -with a dollop of sour cream - it was soooo good!

Thanks!

Gabriella

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DAY AFTER TOMORROW BUDAPEST

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:33:36 GMT

the woman and i are off to meet my ugly hungarian (appaulogies for the redundancy) family.

pray for us. maybe we´ll dig up the danube for attillas coffin "s" too.

jefe of the Maros maternal maiden name!

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Budapest in Sept.

Luscious — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:38:16 GMT

I'll be in Budapest in early September for about a week & have never been. Any suggestions for good places to go within Budapest as well as day trips would be greatly appreciated. Please keep in mind that I am an American, Jewish woman traveling alone. Also looking for travel partners or anyone who lives there who would like to meet up & chill. Any suggestions for places to stay on a budget?

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Langos

muppets78 — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:19:32 GMT

Does anyone know how to make it? I'm making a Hungarian dinner for 8 on Sat., and really wanted to make some langos (spelling?) but wasn't sure how to.

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Hungary in Movies

rednib — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 01:24:09 GMT

I'm looking for a list of movies that were filmed in Hungary. I accidentally saw "Underworld" (long story) and was so happy to suddenly realize they were roaming the streets of Budapest! That entertained me enough to make up for the rest of the movie. I also know "Sunshine" was partially filmed in Budapest. What else?

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Hungary-Brasil

Brian — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:46:14 GMT

In case any of you follow, the Hungary - Brasil match will be broadcast on:

http://www.vilagradio.hu/letoltes.html

Apr. 28

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Howdy Y'all!

Gabriella — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:43:56 GMT

I'm new & just wanted to say hey. Can anyone recommend some good basic Hungarian grammar books? I can speak, but I can't really read or write.

FYI -There's a decent German place on the fair isle of Alameda called Spiesekammer. It's owned by Cindy (former owner of Cafe du Nord) and Peter Kahl (former chef/partner of Supenkuche). The food and ambience are good, and there's a nice bar at the front of the restaurant. (Elaine the Bartender makes a killer lemon drop).

Many Thanks & Hi!

Gabriella

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Jó Nappot Kivanók

Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:33:45 GMT

Looking for Magyar resources, community, music, dance, people -
Here in the Bay area.
Although I left there as a babe, I miss home.

sziastok

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Hungarian Goodies on the Net ?

jomagam — Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:32:09 GMT

Does anybody know of a place where you can order Hungarian goodies for a decent price. Specificly Sport Szelet and Turorudi. These are about the only sweets I like to eat :-)))

Thanks,

B

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Overheard

muppets78 — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:27:40 GMT

The other day I overheard that when Madonna was filming for Evita, they had to shoot a couple of scenes in Hungary. One of those scenes was to be shot in a famous cathedral (didn't catch which one). When Madonna was to appear inside the cathedral that day for the shoot, the main Archbishop refused her entry! Claiming that their cathedral/faith has high standards (apparently Madonna ain't a virgin afterall).

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HU passport?

Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:06:43 GMT

Hi ... I want to get my Hungarian Passport, (if at all possible!). My parents were both born in Hungary and I think that I may be eligible. Has anyone done this? Any advice?

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Bistro East Europe Wine/Food Event

Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:34:41 GMT

FYI

WINES AND FOOD WITHOUT BORDERS
At
BistroE Europe
4901 Mission St.
San Francisco 94112
(Cross St. France between Ocean and Geneva)
(415) 469-5637 or (650) 941-4699
www.BistroE.com
Explore the unique flavors of more than a dozen rare winesfrom the Heart of Europe paired with authentic regional cuisine.
An introduction into the best wines threecountries,
Austria, Croatia and Hungary, have tooffer.
The wines are imported and distributed by Blue Danube Wine Company.

The unique selection of the region’s foodwill be prepared
by chef and co-owner Julia Pecak of Bistro EEurope.
Julia was bornand raised in Hungary and then lived with her husband
Zdravko Pecak inCroatia and Austria.

Local languages spoken!

Sunday, January 18th, 2004
4pm – 7pm Wine Tasting with Appetizers $30.00

7:30pm-10pm Dinner with your favorite wine
And Live Eastern European Folkand Roma (Gypsy) Music $55.00

Email: info@BlueDanubeWine.com or bistroeeurope@aol.com

Please R.S.V.P. - Space is limited
Have a Great Start into 2004!

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So excited!

lilseabiscut — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:29:34 GMT

My fathers family are immigrants from Hungary and he escaped to the states with his sister. They only way to get out was to get the soldiers drunk and pass out...it is a really crazy story. Anyway I haven't been there and don't speak the language, so I can't speak to my grandmother (she only speaks Hungarian). But my uncle writes music and the hungarians sing his songs. Its really interesting and I am so excited to find some people who know and/or love this culture.
ok bye!

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Hungarian Dinner in San Francisco

Fri, 05 Dec 2003 18:15:47 GMT

Sziasztok!
Who's in the Bay area and could get together for a little Roma feast at the Bistro in outer Mission sometime in the near year? They have Balkan music/dance most Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from local groups like Danibius and Roman Shopkov.
We can request some special Monastirka rajika (which is close to Palinka) and there's Langos, of course!

Some links:

http://www.bistroe.com/
http://sfkornyek.szabadsagharcos.org/bistroeeurope.html

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Rock Music & Political Change

OtherMichael — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:22:48 GMT

On saturday night/Sunday morning (Dec 13/14), I believe..

CSPAN 1:27 am 90 minutes
Rock Music and Political Change
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Cleveland, Ohio (United States)

Simonyi, Andras , Ambassador, Hungary, United States

The Hungarian ambassador to the U.S. spoke at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame about the role of rock music in political change, specifically in Eastern Europe during the Cold War

---------

didn't see it; got this in the mail....

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first post, eh?

OtherMichael — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:41:04 GMT

I lived in Budapest from October of 1992 to August of 1995.

Ahhhh.... I'm rapidly forgetting (forgotten) whatever poor misbegotten hungarian I ever learned. Lazy american....

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Hungarian Dance & Music

csmchugh — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:55:19 GMT

Since 1999 I have been getting more involved in Hungarian
folk music and dance. I'm not Hungarian, but I am hooked on
the stuff. I'm in a folk ensemble called Esterlancz, which has performances
coming up through the year (which I will post)
On December 4th, we will perform traditional Christmas songs
(music only)...
and December 13th is a bagpipe festival I am helping with
with pipers from all around Europe. This the third event we've organized
and it is incredible music (plus some dancing for the crowd afterward)
Hungarian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Irish, Italian (I think), and a bit of Scottish as well... more later... What is going on with music and dance with you?

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