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...
Pál Horváth
Speaker of 30 languages – Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, life of the wayfaring scientist
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, the gifted scientific traveller, wrote his name not only into the history of Hungarians through his perseverance and sacrifice.
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
“Only the forgotten die” – The immortal love of a 1956 martyr and a young woman
Árpád Brusznyai was a true intellectual. A young teacher who only wanted good, who did not murder or steal, his only ‘crime’ being that...
Andrea Tóth-Fazekas
“Being Hungarian is an incredible experience, despite the bitter pain.” In conversation with opera singer Levente Molnár
“Spiritually, I reckon viceroy (bán) Bánk was a Szekler, just as I am. I, too, have exactly the same emotional charge: I truly tremble...
Nóra Ivády
Fifteen years in refuge – Unseen chapters from the life of Cardinal József Mindszenty
We know from Hungarian history that a person who has been convicted of treason by both the Arrow Cross and the Communist regimes can...
Pál Horváth
The person who founded a self-governing children’s society – the story of Gábor Sztehlo
Even today, Géza Radványi’s moving classic of post Second World War Hungarian filmmaking, Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe, 1947), is a popular movie. It’s...
Ágnes Jónás
“Making music is like pearl fishing: we reveal the pearls to the audience” – Flautett Flute Quartet
Their collective soul is woven from song, they are cheerful, dedicated and they understand each other almost without the need for words. They are...
Pál Horváth
Albert Apponyi: nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times
“For Hungary, choosing between accepting the peace treaty or refusing to sign it would be tantamount to having to ask itself if it should...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
There is no prostitution without coercion
Research indicates that people are more vulnerable to prostitution in the current crisis caused by the virus as they are in times of natural...