| Meet our Talented Hungarian Chef: Helen Szabo Czegeny
always been my cooking idol. She made any meal unusually delicious. Her mother’s family came from the small town of Nyiregyhaz, in Northern Hungary, where Slovak cooking traditions have blended into everyday meals of Hungarian families. Helen’s cooking is an outward demonstration of her passion for delicious foods and her love for entertaining with her gift of hospitality truly shining in her everyday life. I remember while growing up, we had more dinner guests than travellers through New York’s Grand Central Station (or so at least we thought). We wondered – didn’t anyone eat at home anymore? They just couldn’t get enough of her warm personality, generosity and amazing cooking when it came to sitting down and “breaking bread”. Helen’s combination and choice of ingredients are always in perfect balance and harmony. Never too much or too little, but always the right amount of carefully chosen spices and condiments. At the tender age of six, Helen already demonstrated her fondness of cooking. By by twelve, she started fulfilling her passion in a formal way and spent time at her great aunt’s cooking school where many young girls were brought to tears learning this stern woman’s ways of the old style Hungarian cooking. Her "Aunt Borbala”, married a high court judge and enjoyed all the pleasures of an upper middle Hungarian family. She was accustomed to eating meals prepared by some of the most talented imported French Chefs. |
| Dream Machine Publications, Paris, Ontario, Canada Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes Cookbook www.dreammachine.biz Copyright © 2006 Dream Rights Reserved • Updated January 23, 2010 |
Meet Hungarian Chef Helen
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