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Daniel mate is here for this, to spread the gospel of meat. hungarian meat related wisdom in all its delicious, delicious variety. like saint francis of assisi he wanders the earth doing good works. in this case, highlighting the ancient arts of butchery, sausage making, and the preparation of many of the lords creatures, as he himself would no doubt like to see them prepared. >> daniel: what have you heard about budapest butchers? >> anthony: not much. >> daniel: we have 70 butchers in budapest...

English because i cant. >> anthony: paprika. >> daniel: yes, paprika. >> anthony: uh, oregano? thyme. >> butcher: marjoram. >> anthony: marjoram. >> daniel: marjoram. >> anthony: uh, allspice. >> daniel: here comes rice. >> anthony: okay. here comes the blood. >> daniel: and here comes the blood. >> anthony: beautiful, so good. salt. >> daniel: and the sugar, i dont understand why. >> anthony: it makes flavors pop. beautiful. season and right into the tube. dick jokes coming. stand by for dick j...

And so on. >> anthony: its very, uh -- >> daniel: wherever you are you can -- in 5 minutes walk, you can find a butcher where you can eat something. >> anthony: and on this particular corner, belvarosi disznotoros. one of daniels favorites. >> anthony: so youre not a butcher. youre not in the food business. >> daniel: no, no, no. >> anthony: what is your -- what do you do? >> daniel: im an economist. >> anthony: youre an economist. as i understand it, you go from butcher shop to butcher shop inv...

Put here on earth to do gods mysterious will. daniel mate is here for this, to spread the gospel of meat. hungarian meat-related wisdom in all its delicious, delicious variety. like saint francis of assisi he wanders the earth doing good works. in this case, highlighting the ancient arts of butchery, sausage making, and the preparation of many of the lords creatures, as he himself would no doubt like to see them prepared. >> daniel: what have you heard about budapest butchers? >> anthony: not mu...

>> daniel: and the sugar, i dont understand why. >> anthony: it makes flavors pop. beautiful. season and right into the tube. dick jokes coming. stand by for dick jokes. all right, so, what do we have here? oh, that looks good, some nice pickles. braised red cabbage. over there, from the mighty shanks of some mythical creature, perhaps, a batali-saurus or delicio-saurus at least. slow braised until the meat is falling off the bone. and let there be blood. delicious, delicious blood in tube form,...

>> anthony: and on this particular corner, belvarosi disznotoros. one of daniels favorites. >> anthony: so youre not a butcher. youre not in the food business. >> daniel: no, no, no. >> anthony: what is your -- what do you do? >> daniel: im an economist. >> anthony: youre an economist. as i understand it, you go from butcher shop to butcher shop investigating old-school butchers. why do you do that? >> daniel: because i really like it and, uh, somewhere in 2011 i saw that im not alone with this....

Like all butchers. [ laughter ] >> anthony: theyre doing good business here. >> daniel: and its cheap. >> anthony: yeah? >> daniel: i cant tell you which is my favorite butcher in budapest. >> anthony: yeah. >> daniel: because, all of them is different. >> anthony: right. you ever just go out for like a salad? [ laughter ] i kid, i kid. there is another long tradition of artistry here in budapest. we grew up with their works. visual artists, photographers, filmmakers. where did they all go? well...

>> anthony: right, doing prepared food. >> daniel: yeah, they try to save themselves. >> anthony: yes, there are many boutique cuts of meat available, as one would expect from a master butcher. but then theres this. a field of dreams, a landscape of braised and fried and cured delights that seem, under glass, to go on forever. >> anthony: a good hungarian butcher shop, they should be able to cut meat, cure meat, make sausage, and cook preparations as well. >> daniel: yeah. >> anthony: look at th...