Рецепт Hungary: Pork and Paprika

I’ve just spent a week galavanting around a village called Mád, which is in Tokaj, in North Eastern Hungary. They make a lot of wine in Tokaj, a whole lotta wine. I think I drank most of it. The landscape is striated with rows of meticulously tended vines, parted now and then by orchards, forest, farms and teeny little bars where men drink tulip shaped glasses of pálinka at 10am in the morning.

I went on something called an Open Trip, which means a flexible itinerary had been laid out for me but despite reading it er, once about 2 months prior to actually travelling, I didn’t really know what to expect of the food. I’d previously been introduced to langos, but aside from that all I could really bring to mind was goulash and…