If there’s a better dessert any simpler than strawberry shortcake, I don’t know what it is. Our food appreciation classes are tooling around central Europe on their virtual world culinary tour, but I couldn’t resist all the strawberries showing up lately in the grocery store. So we took a break from our foreign travels to […]
Our food appreciation classes have landed in Austria on their virtual world culinary tour and we went straight for a classic dish: Wiener schnitzel. That means veal cutlet in the Viennese style, traditionally pounded thin with a mallet, then dredged in bread crumbs and fried. Many people object to veal–the meat of a male beef […]
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Marco Polo notwithstanding, most food cultures seem to have some version of a noodle in their culinary arsenals. Germany may have the messiest. Called “spaetzle”–or “little sparrows”–this noodle starts with a sticky dough that falls somewhere between pancake batter and library paste and must be pressed through holes into a pot of boiling water. What? […]
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