Hungarian Living Podcast

Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Zina Bozzay is the founder of the Hungarian Folk Singing Circle and teaches Hungarian folk songs in a variety of ways. If you want to dig a bit deeper into Hungarian folk music and learn some regional songs, there is are classes coming up! A few years ago, when I was in Hungary with one of our tour groups, I had the opportunity to participate in one of Zina’s classes “live” and it was great fun. Zina is enthusiastic, encouraging, patient, and very knowledgeable about Hungarian folk songs from a variety of regions!

Here are the ways to connect with Zina and see what she offers!

Hungarian Folk Singing Circle website: https://www.zinabozzay.com/nepdalkor
Current Class details: https://www.zinabozzay.com/nepdalkor-currentclasses
Class Registration: https://www.zinabozzay.com/nepdalkor-registration
Hungarian Folk Singing Circle Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hungarianfolksingingcircle/

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

It’s time for the 2022 Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge! Since 2018, we have hosted this challenge and each year we have added new elements so participants can make a deeper connection with heritage foods each month. We would love to have you join us this year!

Each month I give an assigned dish to make — it might be sweet and it might be savory.

Here is how it works — I will supply a recipe, but you are not bound to that recipe. The goal is to cook the dish and see what you think. If you have access to a family recipe that you love or have never even tried, fantastic! Use that one! Or use the recipe from a family friend or your favorite cookbook. You do not have to follow the exact recipe I give you.  If you need to adapt the recipe a bit due to allergies or strong food preferences, that is fine. The hope is that you will find some recipes that can work in your life. You might not love everything you make and that is ok, too.

Complete the dish of the month each month. Invite someone to cook it with you or eat it with you or drop off a little “care package” of the finished product to someone you know will enjoy it. If you can involve older or younger generations in this process, that is even better. If you are a grandmother or grandfather who lives near their grandchildren and can have a Hungarian cooking day, how fun is that? Or you and a cousin may decide to cook something together once a month – it’s a great family bonding opportunity! Maybe you have a non-Hungarian friend who loves to experiment with recipes – that sounds like one of the ingredients for a perfect afternoon! In these times of social distancing, maybe you have a video chat with an older family member and discuss the recipe — find a way to make it work!

To participate, you need to email [email protected] and say you want to be in the Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge. Then you need to sign up for our e-newsletter. We offer 4 options of the e-newsletter and they are all fun and interesting, but the 3rd week is the one that will always have the recipe! Sign up for the newsletter HERE.

1st week – Hungarian Events, News, & Organizations
2nd week – Hungarian Language, Genealogy, & Travel
3rd week – Hungarian Recipes, Foods, & Traditions
4th week – Hungarian History, Inventions, & Creative Inspiration

The recipe of the month (and other cooking resources) will always appear in the 3rd week of the Hungarian Living e-newsletter. I will start the year with emailing everyone the January recipe, but, after that, each month the recipe for the following month will be in week 3 of the Hungarian Living e-newsletter.

We have a Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge private Facebook group. If you are on Facebook and you have signed up for the challenge, request to join our group

We have supplemental cooking and baking classes. CLICK HERE to see our upcoming classes — each month there will be class that lines up with the Let’s Cook Challenge, but the classes are entirely optional

We have learned a lot over the last four years of doing the Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge. Cooking brings people together and when people are together, there is always conversation. You have great food stories with us and we have enjoyed reading all of them. Each month of participation brought another opportunity for meaningful conversations. We also learned that the participants enjoyed interacting with another via the Facebook group, especially as the last several years have played out. Our Facebook group allows for the sharing of tips and tricks and ideas as well as troubleshooting and success. If you are on Facebook, request to join our group Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge. It is so much more fun to cook in community!

We recently received a note from a participant in the 2021 Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge. Here is a snippet:

“On a side note, thank you so much for this challenge. I really enjoyed it! It helped me connect with my culture regularly. It gave me recipes for dishes I love but have never made, new dishes, and confidence to finally try things. Having the deadline to do it made me get it done, too….the best experience was when I shared a giant batch of the pörkölt [meat stew] after a family move, and when my mom and her brothers stepped into the kitchen they all exclaimed “oh! It smells like Hungary in here!” It was such a compliment. Thank you for providing us the vehicle to come together as a family over our food!” ~ Ann J. (Massachusetts)

Here are the details for the 2022 Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge. Grab a cousin, sibling, parent, or friend and invite them do the challenge with you! If you don’t have anyone who will join you, that’s ok too, do it for yourself!

Find the level that works for you, follow all the steps, and let’s get started!

Participate in the Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge

Choose level one if:

• You want to be inspired to cook more Hungarian food.
• You like knowing others are on this journey with you.
• You enjoy the challenge of having a recipe assigned to you each month.

Step One: Send me an email to [email protected] and tell me you want to participate in the 2022 Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge.

Step Two: If you don’t already receive at least the 3rd week of the Hungarian Living e-newsletter you need to sign up for that HERE.

Step Three: An optional but a fun addition — if you are on Facebook, request to join our group Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge

Cost: $0

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Participate in the Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge
+ Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages

Choose level two if:

• You want to be inspired to cook more Hungarian food.
• You like knowing others are on this journey with you.
• You enjoy the challenge of having a recipe assigned to you each month.
• You are excited about making a regular and thoughtful connection with your Hungarian food history with our monthly Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages.

Step One: Send me an email to [email protected] and tell me you want to participate in the 2022 Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge.

Step Two: If you don’t already receive at least the 3rd week of the Hungarian Living e-newsletter you need to sign up for that HERE.

Step Three: An optional but a fun addition — if you are on Facebook, request to join our group Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge

Step Four: Purchase the Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages (details below).

Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages
Each month for 12 months you will receive a pdf via email that can be downloaded and printed each month. The purpose of these pages is to encourage you to document your monthly cooking experience and jog your memory with a variety of questions each month. We hope these questions will ignite some additional interesting conversations with your friends and family. If you are don’t have a printer, grab a notebook dedicated to this project and answer the questions each month. Your purchase of these monthly questions can be used with your immediate family: parents, grandparents, spouse, children. If you want to involve a wider range of family members or friends, please purchase access to additional journal pages. Be sure to let us know what email to send the extra journal pages to. This can be a wonderful family activity.

Cost: $25 (about $2 per month) — 2022 Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages

Click this link to purchase! Be sure to choose the $25 level.

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Participate in the Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge + Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages
+ Apron

Choose level three if:

• You want to be inspired to cook more Hungarian food.
• You like knowing others are on this journey with you.
• You enjoy the challenge of having a recipe assigned to you each month.
• You are excited about making a regular and thoughtful connection with your Hungarian food history through our monthly Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages.
• You want to purchase an apron for yourself or someone else.

Step One: Send me an email to [email protected] and tell me you want to participate in the 2022 Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge.

Step Two: If you don’t already receive at least the 3rd week of the Hungarian Living e-newsletter you need to sign up for that HERE.

Step Three: An optional but a fun addition — if you are on Facebook, request to join our group Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge

Step Four: Purchase the Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages + Apron (details below).

Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages + Apron
Each month for 12 months you will receive a pdf via email that can be downloaded and printed each month. The purpose of these pages is to encourage you to document your monthly cooking experience and jog your memory with a variety of questions each month. We hope these questions will ignite some additional interesting conversations with your friends and family. If you are don’t have a printer, grab a notebook dedicated to this project and answer the questions each month. You can also choose to audio or video record your answers. Your purchase of these monthly questions can be used with your immediate family: parents, grandparents, spouse, children. If you want to involve a wider range of family members or friends, please purchase access to additional journal pages. Be sure to let us know what email to send the extra journal pages to. This can be a fun and informative family activity.

Purchase an apron so you can use it as you cook all year long! Or, if you already have one of our aprons, send one to a friend or family member to encourage them to cook more Hungarian food! Choose from our Hungarian Chef Apron (red, blue, or green) or our Folk-Art Apron (red only). Mention your choice in the comment section when you check out.

Cost: $50 — 2022 Hungarian Food Memories Journal Pages + Apron

Click this link to purchase! Be sure to choose the $50 level.

Want to go deeper? Join us at the Hungarian Heritage Expo, or explore a heritage tour with Magyar Living Tours — built for families tracing their roots back to Hungary.
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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Enjoy this tale from the collection of my mother’s translations of Hungarian folk tales ready by our daughter, Hannah Vos.

King Matthias, he was the ruler of Hungary from 1440-1490. He was the great Hungarian king of the Renaissance and one of the greatest public figures in Hungarian history. One of his prime concerns was the alleviation of the suffering of the serfs, and very often he would disguise himself in peasant clothes and walk among his people. He insisted that truth and justice be upheld at all times, and because of his many actions along this line, he was loved by all his people. This is why there are so many tales, legends, and myths centering around him. King Matthias was so well loved by the common people that the tales spread to the surrounding Ukrainian, Slovakian, Slovenian, and even Romanian folklore.

Check out our web shop The Hungarian Store where we sell meaningful gifts with a Hungarian focus. Please visit Hungarian Living to sign up for our e-newsletter and see all the other resources we have gathered for you!

Want to go deeper? Join us at the Hungarian Heritage Expo, or explore a heritage tour with Magyar Living Tours — built for families tracing their roots back to Hungary.
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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

We have completely overhauled our Magyar Marketing website and changed the name to The Hungarian Store. That is a big change, you can find us at The Hungarian Store

This name change has been coming for several years, out of necessity. But our commitment is the same — we want you to discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage in the ways that matter most to you and share it with the ones you love.

We have also done the same for the Hungarian Living  website. If you stopped by there, you may have noticed. If not, please check it out! You can listen to the PODCAST right from the website with our fancy podcast player. We have all the episodes together in one spot. Or, you can find the show that interests you on the individual show notes page and listen from there. 

And, we have put all of our recipe, language, history, and creative inspiration resources on the Hungarian Living website. So it’s a place to go for a collection of resources in English. 

We would love to hear what you think of the changes! 
For more fun conversations about all kinds of things that have to do with Hungarian heritage and culture, be sure to tune into our next episode of the Hungarian Living podcast. If you have an idea for a topic to be discussed on this podcast, send an email to [email protected]

Want to go deeper? Join us at the Hungarian Heritage Expo, or explore a heritage tour with Magyar Living Tours — built for families tracing their roots back to Hungary.
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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Episode 40

In this episode of the Hungarian Living podcast, I visit with Eva Lazear from the Magyar Club of Dayton, Ohio.

This group has been around since the 70’s and is still very active and intentional about welcoming new members!

Here are the ways to connect with them:

Website: Magyarclubofdayton.org

Facebook:  Magyar Club of Dayton

Check out our web shop: Magyar Marketing ~ The Hungarian Store where we sell meaningful gifts with a Hungarian focus. Please visit Magyar Living to sign up for our e-newsletter and see all the other resources we have gathered for you!

Want to go deeper? Join us at the Hungarian Heritage Expo, or explore a heritage tour with Magyar Living Tours — built for families tracing their roots back to Hungary.
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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Hungarian History & Culture Course
Episode 39

In this episode of the Hungarian Living podcast, I visit with Gergely Nemeth about our upcoming Hungarian History and Culture Course.  Gergely is one of our Hungarian language teaching partners and he lives in Miskolc, Hungary.

The Hungarian History and Culture course is just a brief overview of Hungary’s history. It is 10 weeks long and the lectures are 30 minutes each. Classes are held on Skype and not pre-recorded.

There are just a few spots left for this session so SIGN UP right away for the course.

Send a message to [email protected] and we will let you know when the course is available again if it is “out of stock”.

Check out our web shop: Magyar Marketing ~ The Hungarian Store where we sell meaningful gifts with a Hungarian focus. Please visit Magyar Living to sign up for our e-newsletter and see all the other resources we have gathered for you!

Want to go deeper? Join us at the Hungarian Heritage Expo, or explore a heritage tour with Magyar Living Tours — built for families tracing their roots back to Hungary.
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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Our goal is to help you develop and maintain a meaningful connection with your Hungarian heritage.  We know what a challenge it is to preserve those ancestral ties throughout the generations, so we provide a variety of avenues to help you stay connected in the ways that work for you and the ones you love!

We offer Hungarian language, cooking, history, and genealogy classes – but in this podcast we will just focus on our Hungarian language learning opportunities available for Fall 2021.

Hungarian Lessons 

Hungarian Dialogue Sessions 

Hungarian Language Clinic 

Check out our shop: Magyar Marketing ~ The Hungarian Store where we sell meaningful gifts with a Hungarian focus. Please visit Magyar Living to sign up for our e-newsletter and see all the other resources we have gathered for you!

Want to go deeper? Join us at the Hungarian Heritage Expo, or explore a heritage tour with Magyar Living Tours — built for families tracing their roots back to Hungary.
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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

The Georgia Statue to Honor 1956 Hungarian Revolution

In this episode of the Hungarian Living podcast, I visit with Andrea Lauer Rice about an exciting new project! There will be a statue in Georgia to honor those who participated in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

If you want to learn more about this project and contribute, here are some links

Details and Donations

Freedom Fighter 56 

Facebook Page: Georgia Statue to Honor 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Check out our web shop: Magyar Marketing ~ The Hungarian Store where we sell meaningful gifts with a Hungarian focus. Please visit Magyar Living to sign up for our e-newsletter and see all the other resources we have gathered for you!

Want to go deeper? Join us at the Hungarian Heritage Expo, or explore a heritage tour with Magyar Living Tours — built for families tracing their roots back to Hungary.
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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

In this episode of the Hungarian Living podcast, I visit with Eszter Suto about HuGo, the app for iphones that shows Hungarian businesses, events, and places of interest all around the US. Check out our show notes HERE for all the ways to connect with HuGo!

Check out our web shop: Magyar Marketing ~ The Hungarian Store where we sell meaningful gifts with a Hungarian focus. Please visit Magyar Living to sign up for our e-newsletter and see all the other resources we have gathered for you!

Want to go deeper? Join us at the Hungarian Heritage Expo, or explore a heritage tour with Magyar Living Tours — built for families tracing their roots back to Hungary.
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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Episode 35 Genealogy Laszlo Les Josa

Episode 35

In this episode of the Hungarian Living podcast I visit with Laszlo Les Josa about genealogy research. If you are at the beginning of your research or you have been doing this for years, Laszlo makes it clear that there are always new things to learn! If you have any questions for Laszlo to answer about genealogy on future podcast episodes, please send them to [email protected]

We have a Facebook group specifically for those who are researching Hungarian genealogy called Hungarian Living Genealogy Group -- We invite you to join!

Check out our web shop: Magyar Marketing ~ The Hungarian Store where we sell meaningful gifts with a Hungarian focus. Please visit Magyar Living to sign up for our e-newsletter and see all the other resources we have gathered for you!

Want to go deeper? Join us at the Hungarian Heritage Expo, or explore a heritage tour with Magyar Living Tours — built for families tracing their roots back to Hungary.
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