5th Gulyásfesztivál - Vienna 2014
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Based on 8 past editions
Event Details
- Date & Time
- June 14 - June 15, 2014
Programme
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Until Sunday, June 15, 2014
Bömischer Prater-Tivoli Center
Saturday: goulash cooking competition with 32 teams, judged by a 5-member jury (president Gál Zoltán); challenge trophy won by Dávid OK (Vienna). Knightly Order of the Round Table of Hungarian Royal Cooks ceremony (Gál Zoltán admitted, Kiss József knighted). Goulash on sale Saturday and Sunday. Embroidered folk-art stall, kürtőskalács and palacsinta vendors. Music: "Kis Balaton" folk dance ensemble (Balatonszentgyörgy), Délibáb dance group (Vienna), "Jurta" folk band (Szombathely), Ásós Attila (Megasztár 4 finalist).
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Cooking competition: 32 teams judged by a 5-member jury of experts and lay people
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Goulash on sale to visitors (also on Sunday)
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Folk dance and folk music: "Kis Balaton" folk dance ensemble of Balatonszentgyörgy, Délibáb dance ensemble of Vienna, "Jurta" folk music ensemble of Szombathely
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Pop music party with Ásós Attila, finalist of the 4th Megasztár in Hungary
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Knighting: representatives of the Magyar Királyi Szakácsok Kerekasztal Lovagrendje took chief judge Gál Zoltán into their ranks and knighted BMME president Kiss József
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Goulash on sale to visitors
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About This Event
The fifth Gulyás fesztivál (goulash festival) in Vienna, organised by the Bécsi Magyar Munkás Egyesület (BMME, Viennese Hungarian Workers' Association) on 14-15 June 2014 at the Bömischer Prater-Tivoli Center. On the Saturday 32 teams of hobby cooks competed before a 5-member jury of experts and lay people; goulash was on sale on both days, with folk dance and music, a craft stall and a pop concert.
History
Fifth edition. In the first year 10 enthusiastic teams competed; the number of visitors and hobby cooks has grown every year, to 32 teams on the Saturday of 2014. The organisers said the festival was again successful, which a large majority of the participants asked confirmed.
On the menu
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goulash sold on Saturday and Sunday
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pancakes
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embroidered folk crafts
Also served
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goulash, sold on Saturday and Sunday
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kürtöskalács
chimney cake, sold by a vendor
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palacsinta
pancakes, sold by a vendor
Who's who
Organised by
- Kiss-Lehocki Ilona organiser
- Kiss József organiser, long-time BMME president, intellectual father and permanent director of the festival; knighted at this edition
- Bécsi Magyar Munkás Egyesület (BMME); organisers Ilona Kiss-Lehoczky and József Kiss
- Bécsi Magyar Munkás Egyesület (BMME); szervezők: Kiss-Lehocki Ilona és Kiss József
Taking part
- Dávid OK Viennese team, winner of the challenge cup this year
On stage
- Kis Balaton folk dance ensemble from Balatonszentgyörgy
- Délibáb dance ensemble from Vienna
- Jurta folk music ensemble from Szombathely
- Ásós Attila finalist of the 4th Megasztár in Hungary, pop music
Also involved
- Gál Zoltán certified cook, chief judge for 5 years; taken into the knightly order at this edition
- Magyar Királyi Szakácsok Kerekasztal Lovagrendje knightly order of cooks; representatives from Hungary and Vojvodina attended
Good to know
- Goulash was sold to visitors on both Saturday and Sunday.
- Competitors are amateur (hobby) cooking teams; the competition took place on Saturday.
- A stall sold embroidered works preserving folk-art traditions; vendors sold kürtöskalács and palacsinta.
- The challenge cup is a metal cauldron on three legs on a wooden base, with the names of winning teams engraved; it has also gone to a Vojvodina team and to Transylvanian winners.
- Attendance
- 32 teams in the Saturday contest, judged by a 5-member jury of professionals and lay people
Everything the announcement says
Every detail, as the festival announced it.
The fifth Gulyás fesztivál was held by the Bécsi Magyar Munkás Egyesület (BMME) on 14-15 June 2014 at the Bömischer Prater-Tivoli Center in Vienna.
The organisers, Kiss-Lehocki Ilona and Kiss József, look back with joy and pride on the past four years, as every year the number of interested people and competing hobby cooks grew. While in the first year 10 enthusiastic teams competed, at the Saturday competition 32 teams were judged by a 5-member jury of experts and lay people.
To the great honour of organisers and participants, representatives of the Magyar Királyi Szakácsok Kerekasztal Lovagrendje from Hungary and Vojvodina came this year; they took into their ranks the certified cook Gál Zoltán, who has been chief judge for 5 years, and knighted Kiss József, long-time BMME president, intellectual father and permanent organiser of the Gulyásfesztivál.
The challenge cup (a metal cauldron on three legs on a wooden base, with the names of the winning teams engraved) went this year to the Viennese team Dávid OK; over the years it has also gone to a Vojvodina team and to Transylvanian winners - proof that a Hungarian is Hungarian wherever in the world.
The BMME board prepared cultural, craft and culinary programmes again: a stall selling embroidered works preserving folk-art traditions, and a kürtöskalács and a palacsinta vendor. Visitors could enjoy goulash on sale on both Saturday and Sunday.
Folk music: the "Kis Balaton" folk dance ensemble of Balatonszentgyörgy, the Délibáb dance ensemble of Vienna and the "Jurta" folk music ensemble of Szombathely. For pop fans, Ásós Attila, finalist of the 4th Megasztár in Hungary, provided party atmosphere.
The organisers Kiss-Lehocki Ilona and Kiss József summed up that this year's festival was successful too, which the large majority of the participants asked confirmed.
The fifth edition ran on 14-15 June at the Tivoli Center of the Böhmischer Prater. 32 teams cooked on the Saturday before a five-person jury chaired for the fifth year by certified cook Zoltán Gál; Sunday was for visitors, with goulash on sale both days. The winner was the Viennese team Dávid OK; the travelling trophy had earlier gone to a team from Vojvodina and to Transylvanian winners. Representatives of the Knightly Order of the Royal Hungarian Cooks' Roundtable from Hungary and Vojvodina knighted Zoltán Gál and BMME president József Kiss, the festival's originator. Music came from the Kis Balaton folk-dance group (Balatonszentgyörgy), the Vienna dance group Délibáb, the Szombathely Jurta folk band and Megasztár finalist Attila Ásós.
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Location
Böhmischer Prater | Riedl's Funpark, Laaer Wald 30C, 1100 Wien, Vienna, Austria
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