I’m publishing here a few details from the memories of Mária Lábdy. Mária (1914-2007) was the fourth child of Ákos Lábdy, one of the two paprikamillers in Szeged-Szentmihály. Szentmihály was and is a separate community within Szeged. The Lábdy paprika mill was attractive for several reasons: it worked in a community that was heavily depending…
We are in the middle of celebrating Szeged City Festival and now is the time to remember another emblematic object of the city: Szegedi papucs. Szeged slippers were sewn and embroidered by hand and they did not come in pairs, that is, they were without a right and left foot version. It was often said…
Now that the Ice Saints are gone and we may no longer expect night frost, the seedling is ready to be removed from its sowbed. This is a nursery or hotbed, these days it is a foil tunnel, where between mid-March and mid-May paprika seeds germinate and grow into seedlings or plantlings. The plants are…
Between 18-27 May 2018 we are celebrating Szeged City. There will be a series of events and festivities to remember and commemorate Szeged earning a city status in medieval times. The quotation „Paprika put Szeged on the map of the world” comes from a Hungarian American from a hundred years ago and it highlights the…
We’ve turned ten. On 17 April 2008 we opened the Paprika Museum at PaprikaMolnar’s factory. Since then we’ve had over ten thousand visitors from Hungary and abroad. We built the museum to commemorate and show all the effort that went into the creation and making of a special local product that proved to be so…
What did Szeged country people use to fight illnesses in the 19th century? What else but hot paprika! Qualified doctors in the country were scarce therefore country people were used to relying on their own healing and curing practices when it came to illnesses. They must have tried and experimented with everything they found in…
Despite its New World origins, paprika is an essential part of Hungarian culture and identity. A good example of its physical appearance on traditional objects is the famous kalocsai embroidery, which includes red paprika fruits among vividly colorful flowers on white cloth. Kalocsai embroidery is a relatively young invention. The first embroideries in the 19th…
We all love painting eggs for Easter. We may buy synthetic colourants in the shops but there are lots more ways to colour our Easter eggs. But, what do eggs have to do with Easter? The egg is a symbol of fertility and the start of a new life, and as such, it is closely…
Paprika growers know it well that it is high time to buy and sow the paprika seeds now. The grower needs to decide on which variety to use and whether to buy certified or patented seeds. Now I am not discussing seeds which farmers select on their own (which is, I think, a common and…
Fasting during Lent for many means keeping a strict diet, but now I’m looking at the word’s archaic meaning. Fasting combined with different forms of abstinence is an important feature in many religions. Roman Catholic peasants living in rural Szeged, like in other rural regions in Hungary, observed Lent until the middle of the 20th…
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