If having a pop song written about you makes you an icon, the German food critic and food writer Wolfram Siebeck certainly is one. In 1982 the pop band Foyer des Arts released a song called “Wolfram Siebeck hat recht.” (“Wolfram Siebeck is right”). Songs aside, Siebeck earned his iconic status among German food writers and critics through the breadth, depth and incisiveness of his writing from his pinnacle at the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. Continue reading
Practice makes perfect, or, as you say in German, “Übung macht den Meister”. Well I wouldn’t dare to say that my baking is perfect but baking several times a week, and having baked hundreds of different recipes from the classic German baking repertoire in my almost 19 years in America, I have a pretty good handle on how to bake authentic German cakes, cookies and other pastries, and with readily available ingredients. Continue reading
There is no beating around the bush: Rote Grütze, one of the most delicious German summer desserts, has an ugly, unappealing name. Literally, Grütze means “grits” in English. To German ears, Grütze sounds actually worse than that; it evokes associations with Continue reading
Spoonfuls of Germany 