Margaret, Tom, and Mary's Authentic Hungarian Cookbook (Paperback)

~ Barbara Jean Prince (Author)

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Product Description

Assembled within these pages are the easy-to-follow recipes for delectable appetizers, flavorful entrees, robust salads, and tempting desserts. Prince carefully explains the time-honored cooking methods, walking readers through explicit instructions for creating authentic dishes which are sure to become family favorites--while also providing new twists on other popular ethnic and regional meals.

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co. (April 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805941606
• ISBN-13: 978-0805941609
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,203,857 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An embarrassment to Hungarians, November 3, 2001

By	Sandra Korompai (Temple, TX USA) - See all my reviews

One cannot call these 42 pages of misprint a cookbook. To call it an "Authentic Hungarian Cookbook" is a joke and an embarrassment to Hungarians. How it got published is unbelievable - a plethora of misspelled words, both in Hungarian and English, made-up words (goulosh, rue, gol - to name a few), recipes with no instructions for cooking, and punctuation errors. Can you classify macaroni and cheese, seafood "chapino", clam linguini, pizza, and cream pies as Hungarian? Were the authors joking to include a recipe for preparing Jello? The editorial review is also laughable - "...carefully explains the time-honored cooking methods", "...explicit instructions". Nothing could be further from the truth. I have a collection of over 600 cookbooks and this is by far the worst in that collection.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hungarian? Cookbook?, June 25, 2001

By	"[e-mail]" (Santa Clara, CA USA) - See all my reviews

If you want to read funny (and you read and understand Hungarian), then this book is for you. The recipes are sort of OK, but too simlified. The Hungarian titles are less then good impressions, so why bother? This little booklet covers about 0.1% of the Hungarian cooking. My advice to the authors: go to Hungary first and then try it again. Tamas Sarossy (Autentic Hungarian)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer beware!, February 4, 2003

By	A Hungarian girl (Dover, DE) - See all my reviews

This "authentic Hungarian cookbook" deserves 0 stars, but Amazon didn't give me that option. Besides the English misspellings like "tomatoe" and "rue," many Hungarian words are misspelled as well, leading me to believe that the author cannot speak, read, or write Hungarian, much less cook Hungarian! The majority of dishes presented in this book are as foreign to Hungarians as sushi! Jello? Clams? Come on. If you want accurate information on Hungarian cuisine, Aniko Gergely's Culinaria Hungary and George Lang's The Cuisine of Hungary are your best sources. Jo etvagyat kivanok! That's Hungarian for "bon appetit!"