This year's Drive-Out Festival in Hortobágy will be enriched with a new program element.
The municipality of the county also joins the Hortobágy tradition preservation event with a gastronomic event called "County Tasting". A total of 17 settlements will bring their flavors to the April 27 event. The event on April 27 starts at 9:30 a.m. in the Mátai Stud, and the main event begins at 2 p.m., when 300 racks enter the central Arena, followed by gray cattle, buffalo teeth, foals and a 110-year-old Landauer carriage. Haon wrote .
The first Expulsion Festival was organized just twenty years ago, but the goal has remained the same ever since: to show the values associated with the pastoral culture of the steppe
- informed Ákos Torbik, head of the project and marketing department of the Hortobágy Nature Conservation and Gene Conservation Nonprofit Kft. He said that the main activity of their company, which was founded 30 years ago this year, is the preservation of the traditional occupation, which is the keeping of pasture-based herders. They still have more than 50 shepherds.
The actual foraging always took place around St. George's Day, depending on the state of the pasture and habitats, and the weather. This year is no different, next week the herding of noniuses, rackas, Hungarian merino sheep, gray cattle and domestic buffaloes from their winter accommodation to the summer pastures will begin.
Ákos Torbik said at the press conference about the event.
This year's invited guest of the event will be the historic wine region of Tokaj-Hegyaljai, whose representatives will bring their delicious wines. The 50-year-old Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Association is coming to the green playhouse. The Herman Ottó Institute and the recently established Biodiversity, Climate Change and Water Management Coordination Research Center of the University of Debrecen will be there, as well as the Vojtina Puppet Theater with its stilt walkers for the children's delight.
László Csatai has a cub komondor around his neck at the St. George's Day drive-out celebration in Hortobágy on April 27, 2019. MTI/János Vajda
A new spot of color will appear at the 2024 Drive-Out Festival under the name "Vármegye östolgató" - street of county flavors. As reported by Zoltán Pajna, President of the Municipality of Hajdú-Bihar County, the local governments were invited, and the idea proved to be very popular: 17 settlements brought a total of 29 regional dishes, including töltiki stuffed in horseradish leaves from Álmosd, rózsás cörögé from Bojt, cabbage murgy from Furta, or rongos from Mikepércs guy, at the same time giving a gastronomic perspective on the county's traditional cuisine.
50-50 servings of all delicacies are available for tasting. The program is implemented in the framework of the tender of the Ministry of Rural Development, including the concert of János Csík and the Mezzo Orchestra from 4 p.m.
Featured image: Gulyás drive gray cattle at the St. George's Day drive-out festival in Hortobágy on April 27, 2019. MTI/János Vajda
