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25 Sep

World Press Photo 2023 @ Budapest

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Eyes open to the World’s Best Press Photos at the National Museum Budapest. From September, 22. 2023  features almost 94 recordings from around the world. The best and most important photojournalistic and documentary photos of the past year can be viewed until November, 5. 2023.

Every year since 1955, the World Press Photo competition and the related exhibition organized in many countries summarize the events of the last year with the help of authentic, emotional and thought-provoking photos from all over the world. The winners were chosen by an independent jury that reviewed more than 60,448 photographs entered by 3,752 photographers.

László L. Simon – general director National Museum also mentioned that several accompanying events will join the exhibition. National Geographic Hungary turned 20 this year. On the occasion of the anniversary, World Press Photo presents the most exciting and beautiful Hungarian materials from the magazine’s two decades at the accompanying exhibition at the National Museum. In addition, portal’s selection of photos showing events in Hungary from the past year can be viewed on the fence outsode at the museum. In the Museum’s Garden, the works of Czech, Polish, Slovak and Hungarian photographers on climate change can be seen.

The images of the World Press Photo 2022 exhibition were selected by the international jury from 64,823 photos taken by 4,066 photojournalists from 130 countries: the traveling exhibition is expected to be viewed by more than 4 million people in 120 locations worldwide.

Désirée Bonis – Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Budapest, spoke about this year’s World Press Photo prize-winning photo. The first-prize photo is a strong reminder that there is still a war going on not far from Budapest, while the exhibition material clearly shows that in a period of austerity, in addition to economic difficulties the world also has to deal with the climate crisis. Furthermore, in his speech, he emphasized the importance of the free press, especially the currently protracted epidemic situation.

The photo of the year was Jevhen Maloletka‘s Air attack on the maternity ward of the Mariupol hospital.

Marika Cukrowsky – curator of this year’s exhibition, said: the biggest change in the almost seven-decade history of World Press Photo is that the pre-judging of the competition has been made regional, so a more comprehensive evaluation of local events can be expected. Before the global jury, entries sent from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, South America, Southeast Asia and Oceania are evaluated separately.

The World Press Photo exhibition can be visited until November, 5.2023.

Riport and snaps by Aggie Reiter

31 Jan

Aftermath … Home Wellness No Longer An Unattainable Dream!

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Everything that is connected to the bathroom … visitors were welcomed to their comfort zone and chose their own taste of style.
Thousands of products from hundreds of bathroom and tile brands were open for 2 days on 7000 square meters at the Bathroom and Home Wellness Exhibition @ BOK Hall – Budapest 2022.

Considering that a bathroom is usually built for ten years or even more the interest was high by the visitors and on the spot were able to gain information about the products quality, practicality, comfort, innovation and durability.
The manufacturers also held presentations … tile by tile, piece by piece … to the public about the latest bathroom and home wellness developments and rolling up a number of unique innovations that have never been seen earlier in Hungary such as: a wide range of – vinyl flooring from Baudekor, showers from Hüppe.  Bau-Styl offering to choose from Italian, Polish and Hungarian coverings, German, Polish, Italian and Spanish sanitary ware, with unique ideas smart toilets that can be controlled from the application. Wide range of products from  Strohm-téka, such as: bathtubs, basins & bath cabinets, showers, accessories, WC & bidets and children’s jacuzzi.

Walking through the hallways heard from the exhibitors, saying they do not design bathrooms for homes they design them for people with their own ideas. Therefore, people can also make sure that home wellness is no longer just a dream, in luxury.

Most of the bathroom brands were presented in ready-made bathroom solutions, interiors, range of whirlpools, steam rooms, saunas and salt rooms. Those interested pick up a bunch of ideas on the spot without just flipping through brochures.

Riport & Snaps © Aggie Reiter

6 Aug

“Q” & “A” Slovenian Culinary Heritage Into Hungarian Kitchen

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Slovenian unique culinary journey on “Slavic Cooking” 

Most of Hungary’s food was formed and influenced many centuries ago by the cuisines of many different people kitchen … Turkish,  Italian, German, Bohemian-Moravian,  Polish, Croatian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Romanian,  during the Austrian Habsburg Empires expansion and also Jewish dishes just to mention a few.

It is no surprising foods migration to one and another  countries and becaming popular dishes kept boiling in today’s kitchens.  The Sloven foods are often simple and hearty. Many dishes are made with cream, such as mushroom soup, and pork sour soup. Horseradish with cream, a specialty of northeastern Slovenia, is often served with beef dishes.

In Slovenia also by experience realized “Cabbage” is a veggie which goes with many version in their gastronomy.

The Slovenian Cabbage Soup made its way to Hungary namely “Káposztaleves” which is a meaty cabbage soup that is often eaten on New Year’s Day. Káposztaleves is also thought to relieve the symptoms of a hangover, and this is probably the reason why this traditional Slovenian Soup became tradicional Hungarian soup is so popular on New Year’s Eve, but not to be confused with Korhelyleves or “Hangover Soup” which is known as one of the world’s greatest recipes with lots of paprika and 3 kinds of meat, topped off with a dollop of sour cream.

Hungarians call the soup (“Man-Catcher”) similar to the Sloven Cabbage Soup

Ingredients:  Ham hock, good size with lots of meat, 1 smoked sausage, ½  large head cabbage chopped or shredded, 8  cups of homemade chicken stock as a broth base or substitute or combined with water to make 4 quarts of liquid, 1  large onion chopped, 3 ribs celery chopped, 1 heaping tbs Hungarian paprika, 1 – 2  cups diced tomatoes, 1 or 2 Bay leaves. Add Sauerkraut (as much or little as you like), Salt & Pepper previously taste it. Sour cream to garnish.
Cooking Instructions. Saute onions and celery in bacon grease or lard, Toss in your cabbage, Add some S & P, Stir around until beginning to heat. Add your stock or water, ham hock, bay leaves and paprika. Bring to simmer. Allow to bubble on low for at least 2 hours. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed. Remove ham hock and dice the meat, placing it back into the broth.

Sloven Baked Mashrooms filled with Chesse

Ingredients: 12 whole fresh mushroom, 3/4 pound good quality of sliced Parmesan, mild Cheddar or Muenster cheese.

Cooking: Preheat oven to 300°F.  Wash the mushroom caps under running water, and remove the stems. Dry with paper towels. Cut the cheese into squares to fit between two mushroom caps. Make a “sandwich” of two mushroom caps with one square of sliced cheese between them. Secure with a toothpick, and place the mushrooms into greased pie plate or baking dish. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 30 mins until the mushrooms are tender, until bubbly and the cheese has turned golden brown.

Can be served up to 15 to 20 snacks, as an appetizer, but depending on the number of mushrooms can be a prepared for main meal as well with the same cooking as a/m.

The stuffed mashroom became one of the favorit yummy food in the Hungarian cuisine. It can be varied in many ways throughout all seasons. There is no limit in making stuffed mushrooms with all kinds of delicacies. Most of the work will run through… by the oven, and the result is very appetizing.

These stuffed mushrooms are full of flavour and a great way to start a dinner party. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Slovenia Potica Bread

“Q” What does Potica mean?

“A” A cake or bread filled with (ground) nuts, popular in Slovenia and in Croatia. (In particular, the Slovene variant of this pastry, in contrast to the Croatian variant, termed a povitica.

Slovenian nut roll is a celebratory bread baked for almost every important occasion and it is essential to the celebration of Palm Sunday and Easter. It resembles a jelly roll and is made of very thinly rolled yeast dough spread with a nut paste. The nut paste or filling may differ from region to region.
In Hungary namely different  … Chocolatey cocoa swirls, puffy dough and sprinkle of powdered sugar … this is the divine kakaós csiga (literally “cocoa snail”- cocoa rolls) and the dough can be include with chopped walnuts, pecans, poppy seeds, honey, butter, and dried fruits. There are around 75 sweet and savory traditional bread rolls around the world.

Ingredients:  3/4 cup of butter, 1 1/2 cup of sugar, 4 eggs, 3 cups sifted flour, 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda, 2 cups sour cream, 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla.

Prescription: Have butter at room temperature; cream with the sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Re-sift flour along with the baking powder, and baking soda. Add the dry ingredients alternately with sour cream and vanilla beginning and ending with flour mixture. Spread 1/3 of the butter in a greased bundt or 10 inch tube pan. Top cake mixture with 1/2 of the filling. Repeat; spread remaining butter over all.

Filling: 1 cup ground nuts, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2 tbs. flour, 1 tbs. cinnamon. Mix together nuts, sugar, flour and cinnamon.

Bake at 350 °F  (175 °C) on lowest oven shelf for about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean. Make sure cake is cooled completely before taking out of pan. Before serving, dust with confectioners’ sugar.

© Aggie Reiter

8 Sep

„The Swan Lake” performance @ Erkel Theater – Budapest 2019

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Erkel Theater

Monday, 2. December – 7.30 p.m.

Tuesday, 3.  December, –  3 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.

District VIII., 30. II. Pope János Pál Square – Budapest

After a spellbinding performance of „The Swan Lake” of last year in Budapest. This year the Moscow Ballet is to showcase again the most beautiful gems of classical dance The Swan Lake Ballet. The performance will be on stage twice in 2019 for a culture-hungry audience.  The motto of the company is simple: to present the beautiful noble traditions of the classical dance theater to the widest audience and young people. it has been a pledge of uninterrupted success for thousands of audiences on five continents of the world – for over two decades now.

Set to Tchaikovsky’s magical and mystical score , The Swan Lake is one of the most famous and best loved works in the Ballet repertoire worldwide . The Royal Moscow Ballets production of Swan Lake is an irresistible combination of drama and tragedy set against the dramatic battle between good and evil.

Premiered by the Bolshoi was in 1877, “The Swan Lake” tells the story of Princess Odette, turned into a swan by a wicked wizard. Her near rescue by Prince Siegfried – played by Nijinsky in the classic 1911 version in London before his house arrest in Budapest – provides the ballet with its tragic ending.

The ballet troupe permanent participants of the Russian, French, Swiss, Polish, Spanish, Italian, Austrian, Irish and German theater people, but occur in Israel, in the Canary Islands, China, Korea, Japan, Malta and Sri Lanka.

The RMB has since given one thousand shows around the world, from Austria to Zambia, also toured with evergreen favorites such as ‘The Nutcracker’, ‘Romeo & Juliet’ and ‘Cinderella’.

The troupe was founded by Anatoly Emelianov, August 12, 2002 took place first show – and pillars of the Moscow intellectuals also attended the show. By the tenth anniversary of the dance group, had already staged 20 modern and 15 classical ballet performances, choreographed by Anatoly Emelianov. Since the group’s existence, they have toured in many countries such as Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya – the dancers have been staged in the immediate vicinity of Victoria Falls and the audience has received a huge ovation from Don Quixote.

Due to the rapid decline in tickets and the great interest,  “The Swan Lake” ballet troupe will hold an extra performance! On 3. December, before the evening performances, at 3 p.m. will include Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece at the Erkel Theater.

Update Aggie Reiter