Lung strudel and stuffed bovine spleen – Bizarre dishes from old cookbooks
At first glance, some of the dishes in our old cookbooks may seem bizarre. Stuffed bovine spleen rotisserie. A lamb-brain sandwich with green herbs...
Éva Szilléry
”Even if our mission isn’t profitable we’ll do it” – The Hajnalfény Medical Group helps people in need in Transylvania
László Szalai is an ophthalmologist who had helped people in need in the Far East earthquake zones and Middle Eastern war zones before realizing...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
Hungarian marine biologist rebuilds coral reefs with his teenage son
Marine biologist Emil Karáth almost drowned twice as a child, but despite - or perhaps because of - this, the water became his life...
Tamás Velkei
Discovering the largest crusader mural cycle in the Holy Land – Hungarian archeologists are at least as good as their Western colleagues
By fulfilling his childhood dream, he not only gave his life a purpose, but his work resulted in a university course and institute, too...
Ágnes Jónás
Biologists and all nature-loving people may weep: iron-containing wastewater has been flowing into the River Sajó for several months
The River Sajó, which is even praised by Gyula Juhász in one of his poems, springs from the Gömör-Szepesi mountain range in Slovakia and...
Ágnes Jónás
"With the orangutan I felt that he understood: I was there to help him" – Dr Endre Sós has been responsible for the health of the animals at Budapest Zoo for 25 years
Maybe we can say that the Budapest Zoo is the second home of Dr. Endre Sós . He volunteered here as an undergraduate, has...
Kati Szám
"I was standing on a farm at 23 and felt like my life had ended" – Whose dreams really?
Our parents sometimes make huge sacrifices to make their wildest dreams come true for us. And then, in the idyll they created, we may...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
Veszprém is to be European Capital of Culture in 2023 – An Interview with Tibor Navracsics Government Commissioner
Veszprém is a beautiful city. It's nice to walk around it, especially if you have a guide who knows every corner of the city...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
The Opera House opens – We talked to Szilveszter Ókovács, General Director
The stage of the Hungarian State Opera House, including the rigging loft, is said to be as many cubic meters as the entire Víg...
Kati Szám
Katinka Hosszú: "It's important that people can count on me in my private life, too"
I often encourage beginner colleagues preparing for a sports interview not to take it as a personal failure if they only receive short sentences...
Krisztián Szabó
Angela Gandra: "If we were to expect the same role from everyone, we would destroy society"
Angela Vidal Gandra da Silva Martins, Brazil’s Secretary of State for Family Affairs, was a guest at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium – Danube Institute’s...
Kati Szám
"Hello, Jesus, the Molnárs are here" – Kata Molnár-Bánffy and Gábor Molnár, a couple going on a pilgrimage
When I asked, “Whose idea was it for you to start it?” they looked at each other and smiled – they both remember it...