Tastes in Hungary [antikvár]

GOING SHOPPING For somé, a markét means pleasure, good business, a way to get rich, while for others it is a synonym for difficulties and spending money. Nevertheless, there is something magicai about it; is associated with holidays, society, an always interesting racket and smell. There is scarcely a markét without barbecue, fried sausage and fish or, in Hungary, "langosh", a kind of fried dough. On the other hand a markét creates its own trades and professions: the grocer, the fishmonger, the greengrocer, the dairywoman as well as the trade of barbecueing, pickling cabbage and peppers... Earlier, it was only the markét grocer, who sold spices like pepper, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, mustard-seed, bayleaf, aniseed, sugár, sugár dust, salt or oil. Alsó, there used to be plenty of meat stalls selling game: venison, boar, rabbit, pheasant, wild duck, partridge, or even bear, hazel-grouse and fieldfare. Besides Hungárián species of fish, several kinds of seafish and herring were available; the vegetable women would sell haricot beans, peas, lentils, barley, oat, miilet, poppyseed, aniseed, onions, garlic, carrots and turnips. The apple women offered pears, apples, cherries, morellos, strawberries, peaches, plums, hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds, cornels, sloes, juniper berries and dried fruit. Even today, besides hundreds of groceries, dairies, butcher's and greengrocer's shops, there are thirty marketplaces and halls in Budapest, open almost every day.