Culinaria reports on every aspect of a country's cuisine within the context of the people who created it. Profusely illustrated with spectacular photography and abundantly peppered with authentic recipes, these volumes are a treat for both the mind and the palate.

    12 men - running in direct line from father to eldest son, who in turn becomes a father - are the heroes of this family saga which runs over 300 years' panorama of Hungarian life and history.

    A wistful and nostalgic image of the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, following the bloodless democratic revolution of 1918, the Karolyi government and the short-lived Soviet Republic, and presents cameos of the leading political figures of the day, such as Ferenc Kossuth, Mihaly Karoli and Bela Kun."