Paprika Museum, Southern Great Plain, Hungary

4marusik2015 5:00 PM Oct 26, 2015

The spice of their food is some red beast, and they call it paprika, and it burns like the devil.
Those who have been in Hungary, for sure tried the local cuisine. And Hungarian food cannot be imagined without paprika. The Hungarians call paprika “Red Gold” or “God of goulash”. If you are interested in the history of the emergence of paprika in Hungary, you should go to the city of Kalocsa and visit the Museum of Kalocsa paprika. The best time for such a trip would be the end of September or the beginning of October, when in Kalocsa they hold the festival called "Kalocsa Paprika Days». The museum is located in a small two-storied house, but only on the ground floor there is the Museum of Paprika itself. On the first floor you can see paintings, church vestments and religious artifacts. In the museum you will get the information of different kinds of paprika, the conditions of its cultivation, harvesting and storage. In addition you will see a lot of handicrafts (embroidery, chinaware, painted wooden products), decorated with images of red pepper. In the souvenir shop of the Museum you can also buy paprika or folk-art gifts. Paprika is a good souvenir to bring back from Hungary. Certainly I bought paprika in small cloth bags for my friends and mild bright-red paste in tubes (like toothpaste) for myself. Such a paste is good for cooking goulash.

3francophile47 5:00 PM Jan 11, 2020

Really - a Museum About Paprika!
With a single subject, as you would expect, of limited inerest. Well displayed with an interesting souvenir shop. Most interestin part was the growing plants in the garden which can have all stages of the peppr's development on the same plant at the same time