Hungary

Paprika-rich soups and stews, sour cream, crisp lángos and grand café-house tortes. That is the short version of what Hungary cooks. Look for Goulash (paprika beef soup with potatoes and pinched csipetke noodles), Chicken paprikash (chicken in creamy paprika sauce with nokedli dumplings) and Lángos (deep-fried dough slathered with garlic, sour cream, cheese). Gulyás was the herdsmen’s kettle stew of the Great Plain; nineteenth-century nationalists promoted it as a symbol against Habsburg cooking. This atlas has 39 Hungary dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.