Hungarian Seven-Layer Cake

My father came from the town of Miskolc in northwest Hungary, the country’s second largest city before the war. His family was very wealthy and owned an estate and a winery, and he was well-educated, speaking seven languages.

He was one of only 4,000 of the 14,000 Jews of Miskolc who survived the war and, having lost most of his family and his ancestral home to the war, he never returned to his country. Although rye bread was his favorite food after he survived, this sumptuous link