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A Veggie Feast
18/07/2010    
A Veggie Feast

Being a vegetarian can be hard when living in Hungary, but it is not impossible to find your favorite produce and keep your veggie dreams alive. Below is a comprehensive list of vegetarian shops and restaurants that should whet your healthy palette. Enjoy!

Biokonyha
home delivery (lakto)
Tel: 20-200-1045
zimrezs@invitel.hu
sales@biochef.hu

Vegafood
Home delivery (lakto)
Tel: 1/221-6601
ennemkell@vegafood.hu
Biopont
Darshan udvar (vegan)
VIII. Krúdy Gy. u. 8.
Tel: …

Cultivating Budapest
29/06/2010    
Cultivating Budapest

This is not You Bet Your Garden.  The host of the Philadephia public radio show can answer it all: from black spots on tomatoes to repositioning your rutabaga.  I, on the other hand, am working on growing tomatoes.  At all, period.  Though I’ve personally tilled small family allotments for the past 15 years, in four …

Manufacturing for Life
25/06/2010    
Manufacturing for Life

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
By William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Published by the North Point Press, 193 pages
By focusing on design, Cradle to Cradle attempts to steer environmental debate about end-of-pipe solutions into a constructive re-conceptualisation of the way we think about the environment – largely by focusing on manmade products and …

Organics: Alive and well in Budapest
27/05/2010    
Organics: Alive and well in Budapest

What better way to appreciate a hot summer’s day than to visit a lush organic garden – and discover the secret to finding an array of produce not usually found at local grocers. A well-regulated organic industry is expanding into niche markets.
On assignment to report on the organic foods market in Hungary, I recently drove …

New Organic Farmer’s Market
01/12/2009    
New Organic Farmer’s Market

A new Organic Market has opened up in the Pesthidegkut area in the second district (close to the French school).  The market is located on the outdoor property of the Klebelsgerg Culture Center.