Szakácskönyv (Ilona Horváth)
On August 26, 2006 a new edition of Szakácskönyv by Ilona Horváth was published in honor of the 100th anniversary of Ilona Horváth's birthday. The book is considered to be one of the classic Hungarian cookbooks, and was written for "housewives."
Here are some lines from the original forward: "It is very important for our women to lead the household, but many times they aren't well enough prepared. The purpose of our book is to help housewives organize and manage the household and supply the family with food in the right way… This book is mostly written for those who haven't had a chance yet to learn how to manage the household, but those who have this experience can also benefit. Many housewives have ingredients in abundance but they don't know how to use them correctly because they don't have the technical knowledge of preparing these ingredients in a variety of ways…Hungarian cuisine and Hungarian housewives have always had a good reputation here and abroad. Our rising living standard gives us the opportunity to live up to these expectations."
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Any idea where I can buy this book online? My grandmother's copy is falling apart and I'm looking for a new one for her.
Hi Emily, try it on www.bookline.hu
Type horvath ilona's name on the search space, and several books will come up. The one that you are looking for is on the bottom of the 2nd page.
Price between 1600-2000 HUF depending on the books condition.
Hope it helps!
I would not recommend the Horvath Ilona cookbook. You can find tons of useful Hungarian recipes on the web, all free, and most of them are better than what you get from H.I.
I bough that book for 25Ft in the good old days, and expected to help me survive in the exile, but the results were disappointing. Of course back then there was no web, so I had to experiment and learn on my own, but today a simple search for any Hungarian dish will bring up lots of results.