The Vintage Pasta Dish That's Slowly Disappearing From Kitchens

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The Vintage Pasta Dish That's Slowly Disappearing From Kitchens

The aroma of browning ground beef mingled with onions and tomatoes often signals the arrival of comfort food. American goulash , a one-pot wonder bearing little resemblance to its Hungarian namesake , was once the modest weeknight savior for countless resourceful families.

The story begins with gulyás, a paprika-spiced beef soup long favored in Hungary that immigrants brought to the U.S. in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Early 20th-century newspapers, including the Morning Union, the Boston Herald, and the Denver Post, as well as cookbooks such as "The Woman's Educational Club Cook Book" and "Mexican Cooking: The Flavor of the 20th Century" published goulash recipes. However, rising costs of meat shaped its evol