Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes Cookbook: A Hungarian Cookbook with over 440 Classic Recipes

Meet our Talented Hungarian Chef:Helen Szabo
CzegenyMy mother Helen Szabo Czegeny, has
always been my cooking idol. She made any meal
unusually delicious. Her mother's family came from
the small town of Nyiregyhaz, in Northern Hungary,
where Slovak cooking traditions have blended into
everyday meals of Hungarian families.

Helen's cooking is an outward demonstration of her
passion for delicious foods and her love for
entertaining with her gift of hospitality truly shining
in her everyday life. I remember while growing up, we
had more dinner guests than travellers through New
York’s Grand Central Station (or so at least
we thought).
We wondered: didn't anyone eat at home anymore?
They just couldn't get enough of her warm
personality, generosity and amazing cooking when it
came to sitting down and "breaking bread".

Helen's combination and choice of ingredients are
always in perfect balance and harmony. Never too
much or too little, but always the right amount of
carefully chosen spices and condiments.

At the tender age of six, Helen already demonstrated
her fondness of cooking. By by twelve, she started
fulfilling her passion in a formal way and spent time
at her great aunt's cooking school where many
young girls were brought to tears learning this stern
woman's ways of the old style Hungarian cooking.
Aunt Borbala married a high court judge and
enjoyed all the pleasures of an upper middle
Hungarian family. She was accustomed to eating
meals prepared by some of the most celebrated and
talented imported French Chefs.

Helen enjoying her many 80th Birthday Well Wishes!

Meet Our Wonderful and Talented
Hungarian Chef Helen!