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Snapshots from Germany: Swabian Maultasche

This might look like an oversized ravioli, taste like ravioli, and it's even prepared and cooked like ravioli. But don't be fooled; this isn't ravioli, this is Maultasche (literally translated into Mouthbag). Maultasche is a distinct German dish typical of the southwestern region of Baden-Württemberg, known as Swabia, on the border of France and Switzerland.

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20 Comments | Posted by Steen Bjørn Hanssen, February 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Tagged: Berlin, German, Germany, Maultasche, ravioli, Snapshots from Germany, Swabia

Snapshots from Germany: The Currywurst

Arguably the most famous and iconic Berliner street food dish is the currywurst. Few German dishes are so popular and have inspired so much controversy. The traditional currywurst is a fried, scalded sausage with a fine texture cut into thick slices and seasoned with a ketchup-curry powder sauce. The sausage (wurst in German) is served with or without casing, an existential choice for devoted currywurst fans, and may be accompanied by either fries (pommes) or a bread roll (brötchen). An indisputable must-try at any of the hundreds of street food stands (imbiss) throughout Berlin.

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23 Comments | Posted by Steen Bjørn Hanssen, January 17, 2011 at 2:15 PM
Tagged: Berlin, currywurst, German, Germany, sausage

Video: German Man Makes Chocolate Records

Peter Lardong is a record producer in Berlin, but probably not the kind you're thinking. He produces records (that actually play music) from chocolate. After losing his job at a brewery he thought, maybe I should experiment with edible vinyls. "At first I tried to make records out of ice cream, beer, cola, sausages, cheese and even butter...but none of those things quite made it," Lardong explains in the video. And yes, apparently you can eat them after rocking out. Watch him make them after the jump....

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9 Comments | Posted by Erin Zimmer, January 20, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Tagged: Berlin, chocolate, Germany, music, videos

Berlin 'Grillwalkers' Sell Sausages Cooked on Wearable Grills

[Photograph: Punxatawneyphil on Flickr] The New York Times has a quick piece on Berlin's grillwalkers, who sell sausages from portable grills that they wear—gas on the back; hot, hot bratfest on the front. The innovative apparatus sprang up in 1997, when inventor Bertram Rohloff devised it as a way of skirting city street-vendor permits in the city. Without permits, "neither the grill nor the sausages could touch the ground." As he worked on the invention, Mr. Rohloff considered everything from burning charcoal to hooking the grill up to a car battery — which he rejected because it would run down in just 10 minutes — before settling on propane. He designed it with an automatic cut-off mechanism for the...

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18 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Tagged: awesomeness, Berlin, Germany, grillwalkers, sausages, street food, street vendors