| Meet our Talented Hungarian Chef Ilona Szabo. My mother Helen Czégény, has always been my cooking idol. She made any meal unusually delicious. Her mother's family came from the small town of Nyíregyháza in Northern Hungary, where Slovak cooking traditions have blended into everyday meals of Hungarian families. Helen's Hungarian 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, generousity and amazing cooking when it came to sitting down and "breaking bread". Helen's combination and choice of ingredients for her Hungarian Recipes 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. She prepared paprika chicken with dumplings for her mother, father and two siblings. By thirteen, she started fulfilling her passion in a formal way and spent time at her great aunt's chef's professional 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. This illustrious training is evident in Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes cookbook. |
| What a honour for Ilona to be able to cook alongside a celebrated chef as Lindsay Vandekamp from Liaison Culinary School in Hamilton |
| No ordinary cookbook - 75 years in the making! |
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| Most Hungarians refer to my mother Helen Czegeny as Chef Ilona Szabo (her professional maiden name) LINK HERE |
| Meet Our Wonderful, Talented and World Famous Hungarian CHEF HELEN CZÉGÉNY |
| These highly guarded secret recipes that have been passed down through generations of the combined Szabo, Czégény, Deak and Zajacs families, are now revealed. Chef Helen is a gifted Chef/Pâtissière who perfected the fine details of Hungarian Cuisine during her formal Chef Training in Hungary. |
| BestSelling Author; Chef Clara Czegeny |
| Dream Machine Publications Paris, Ontario, Canada Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes© Cookbook ™ Copyright © 1938-2013 by Dream Machine Publications ALL Rights Reserved. No words, titles, subtitles, phrases, graphics or otherwise from this site may be reproduced without written consent by the author. Created December 2005 Last Updated September 2, 2014 |
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| Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes ™©2005 |
| BY CANADIAN BESTSELLING COOKBOOK AUTHORS |
Clara Margaret Czegeny & Helen Irene Czegeny
