Németh Szandra - Saly Noémi: Catering for guests, being a guest. Permanent exhibition on Hungarian hospitality (Budapest, 2016)

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INTRODUCTION ................................. 3

Catering for Guests, Being a Guest ....................... 3

SCENES OF PROFESSIONAL CATERING ............. 5

?e Confectioner’s Kitchen ............................ 5 A Dynasty of Confectioners: the Auguszt Family ............. 7

?e Confectionery ................................... 9 Furniture of the Friedl Confectionery .................... 11

Dining Rooms and Restaurants

.......................... 13 Mátyás Pince ...................................... 17

Hungarian Cooking .................................. 19 A recipe: Pörkölt (stew) .............................. 21

?e Coffee House .................................... 22 A headwaiter: Gyula Reisz (1859−1927) ................. 25

?e Hotel ........................................ 27 A building: Hotel Arany Bika (Golden Bull) ............... 31

Nightlife ........................................ 34 A failure: the Constantinople

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Music in the Catering Industry ......................... 40 A hit song: “With a fixed salary of two hundred pengős” ....... 43 László Vadnay (1904–1967)

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Tourism, holidays and vacations ......................... 46 A resort: Tátralomnic (now Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia)

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On the Move, on Water and by Rail ...................... 51 A train station restaurateur: Károly Stadler ................ 53