Melissa's Feast

Grace, conviviality and mushrooms in the streets and cafes of Budapest

There was I, spattered by rain and tousled by wind from a late afternoon front, straggling toward Scruton, the conservative coffee shop/clubhouse not far from the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest. I was there to be interviewed by Boris Kálnoky, a former correspondent for Die Welt, and now head of the media school at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC). We …