Csapó Katalin - Füreder Balázs - Sári Zsolt: Reneszánsz ételek – Ételek reneszánsza Időszaki kiállítás 2008. március–május (Budapest, 2008)

!7 Culinary festivals The political changes in the early 1990s got rid of ancien-régime holidays practically overnight. Local communities ended up in a kind of vacuum, and even if old holidays were reintroduced, there was a general need for community-bonding festive occasions. In the 1990s the most important events of this kind were village festivals. Dozens of culinary festivals and contests with different themes have been held over the past twenty years. Festivals very often focus on typical Hungarian food, such as fish soup [halászié), goulash, stuffed cabbage, jellied pig and paprika. Other festivals centre around local plants and foodstuffs, such vegetable marrow, cherries, cucumbers, elder, honey, cheese, sausage or potato. The third type of festival consists of the wine and brandy [pálinka) festivals. The later include the Wine and Champagne Festival in the Buda Castle and the Open Air Museum in Szentendre, the Etyek cooking festival and the various festivals in the wine regions or the pálinka festivals which are becoming increasingly popular. The fourth group of festivals centre around specialities such as the Gastro-Blues Festival at Pals, the Festivals of Edible Flowers at Kecel, and the festival at the Open Air Museum in Szentendre called "Museologists with a Wooden Spoon", held with the participation of the museums of the world, the contestants producing both folk and high-society food. Festivals presenting the culinary culture of various historical eras are also becoming popular, such as the festival of royal chefs at Nagyszakácsi, the Renaissance Festival at Gyula or the Győr Baroque festival. 66. Couple at the cauldron, Szolnok Goulash Festival