Photo by Caro Hoene
With my grandmother’s generation gone, handed-down recipes drifted into oblivion. And a common sight when I grew up also vanished: my grandmother, great-aunts or friends’ grandmothers who lived with the family, sitting at the kitchen table with a bowl in their lap, peeling potatoes or helping out with some other food preparation. Continue reading
Zigeunerschnitzel (Gypsy Schnitzel) is usually not prepared by home cooks in Germany. The thin breaded schnitzel smothered with spicy pepper sauce and topped with mushrooms is something you would order at a restaurant. If you can find it on the menu under that name, that is. Continue reading
For his book Damascus: Taste of a City, German-Syrian writer Rafik Schami could not visit the city where he was born and spent the first 25 years of his life. He has lived in exile in Germany since 1971. To research his book, his sister Marie strolled thorough the Old City for him, collecting stories and recipes and relaying by telephone what she saw and heard. Continue reading
Spoonfuls of Germany 