The flavors of Transylvania will be presented at the Taste of Transylvania festival in Szentendre at the end of March

According to the organizers’ statement on Wednesday, the special feature of the gastro-cultural festival, previously organized in the Gyimes and Borospatak open-air museums, and debuting in Hungary for the first time this year in the Transylvania region of the Open-Air Museum of Ethnography, is that in addition to Transylvanian Hungarian flavors, it also offers a glimpse into the best of Romanian, Jewish, Saxon and Armenian cuisine.

– they drew attention.

According to the information, the most spectacular program element of the festival will be the “Örömfőzde”, as part of which Transylvanian cooks and Michelin-starred chefs will compare their knowledge, and their task will be to cook in parallel from the same ingredients.

On Friday, musicians from the 4S Street band will perform, while on Saturday, gastronomic writer Alíz Jánossy and Transylvanian women will compete with Romanian star chefs, while on Sunday, visitors can sample dishes from János Mizsei (MÁK restaurant), Páva Boys (Páva restaurant, Székelyudvarhely), and Renátó Kovács (Hilda Budapest).

during the program presenting sustainable ingredients and cocktails, Elysian Budapest Cocktail Bar and Sára Megyeri (Dzsindzsa) will introduce interested parties to new, modern options for making alcoholic beverages.

In addition, two special discussions will be organized, as part of which Zsolna Ugron, Zsófia Mautner and Krisztián Nyáry will discuss aristocratic and peasant cuisine, as well as writers’ favorites, while Tímea Gáll, Előd Szőcs, Zsófia Mautner and Adorján Trucza will they will talk about Transylvanian recipes of the past 450 years and the books that present them – they listed.

The event will be enriched by book presentations and film screenings, and the audience will also be able to meet Ákos Kovács and the makers of the recently released film about the singer – they added.

On Sunday, family programs await visitors: children will enjoy a concert by the Alma band, followed by a performance by storyteller Szende Csernyik, as well as a family playhouse and A chimney cake-making workshop is also available on site – they wrote.

– the announcement reads.

During the entire opening hours of the festival, special buses will run between the Szentedre bus station and the Skanzen bus stop every twenty minutes.

The detailed program of the event is available at https://tasteoftransylvania.eu/ – the summary states.