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Food Wine Budapest (The Terroir Guides)

Food Wine Budapest (The Terroir Guides)

zoom enlarge 		Author: Carolyn Banfalvi
Creator: George Konkoly-thege
Publisher: Little Bookroom
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 677031

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 4.2 x 1.4

ISBN: 1892145561
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.59439
EAN: 9781892145567
ASIN: 1892145561

Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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Condition: Brand new copy ...Gift quality!~NO REMAINDER MARKS! Ships promptly with email notification.**KS*B
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Despite its vast repertoire, variety, and recipes bursting with flavor, Hungarian cuisine is one of the most underappreciated and unknown European cuisines. There are few Hungarian restaurants outside the country so those who are interested in discovering Hungarian cuisine (and any food lover should be!) must go to Hungary to sample everything firsthand, prepared with real Hungarian ingredients–now by a new generation of talented chefs and winemakers. Despite the fact that last year more foreign tourists visited the city than ever before (36.6 million), there are still no guidebooks written in English focusing on Budapest restaurants and Hungarian food. Carolyn Banfalvi has written the first culinary guide to Budapest, Food Wine Budapest. This book is a practical guide that contains the vocabulary you’ll need (one obstacle to discovering Hungarian food and wine is the difficult Magyar language); dozens of restaurant, café, and shop reviews; and descriptions of Hungarian dishes and wines. The Hungarian wine industry is young, dynamic, and relatively little known outside of the country, which makes sampling its wines deliciously adventurous. The book will ensure that readers have memorable eating and drinking experiences. Throughout Food Wine Budapest there are also sidebars providing local color and in-depth information.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good, but could improve   August 14, 2008
 2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I bought this book for an upcoming trip to Budapest, because I am a foodie and I want to know where to go!

This book has two major drawbacks, which are easily addressed in subsequent editions.

First, there are no maps of any kind anywhere in the book. So unless you know Budapest very very well, you will be lost and have no idea where these yummy restaurants are. I had to map them on Tripadvisor (which also has plentiful restaurant reviews by the way...) just to see what neighborhoods they are in, and how far away they are from our hotel, important sights etc. This is kind of a pain!

Second, the book is quite heavy! It is a beautiful book- thick, glossy paper, nice fonts and typesets etc, but it weighs a ton! NOT ideal for carting around Budapest- its a veritable Hungarian food encyclopedia!!!

I recommend buying this book if you are a diehard foodie and want to know where the good meals are in Budapest. It would be especially good for someone staying in Budapest for an extended period of time (expats, for example). She has great descriptions and photos of the restaurants, and I believe she does a thorough job of combing the entire city for the best of the best.
If however, you are only going to be in Budapest for a few days, I do not recommend this book. Get a smaller Budapest book, and do a bit of restaurant research online (Tripadvisor or chew.hu are both good Budapest food resources) and bring a notebook with the names and addresses of the restaurants you really want to try. Or better yet, buy a map and mark the restaurants on it!

I'm glad I bought this book, but I wish it had maps. I also wish it wasn't such a tome! Lighter paper and narrower page margins would have made for a more portable book. Maybe the author will alter it for the next edition.

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