Like so many things in the 21st century, traditional markets and fairs are enjoying a renaissance.
Of course, you could argue that it’s the interest in healthy living, together with the increased demand for organic ingredients, which is promoting people to look for granny’s dusty old wicker basket. However, this does not really explain the real reason why people like to go to the market. After all, anyone who has been to such a market knows that it’s the traders who create the real atmosphere. And more precisely, those traders who have picked the fruit and vegetables from their own gardens, cut the ham in their pantry or collected the eggs from the hens at dawn before the market. And speaking of eggs... it is said that a man from far away once asked a stall holder at one of these markets what the sign of a good egg was. A regular shape, the colour of the shell? The stall holder, on the other hand, gave a much simpler answer. You can tell that the egg comes from the right place by the fact that it is muddy and feathery.
100% Hungarian and, to use a currently fashionable term, 100% organic, straight from the garden. Although the granny selling her homemade jams and cheese would probably say: I didn’t get it from Organic or wherever my love. I grew it myself in my own garden!
