The Black and White Cookie Meets the Amerikaner

This is a post I’ve been musing over for a very long time. It probably started when I was a child when I first discovered that in Germany there is a cookie called an Amerikaner (transl. “an American”). You can imagine my surprise when I discovered that this cookie looked like the ones [...]

Die Raclette

It seems strange, to use the article die for Raclette, though two sources I’ve looked at on the web use die. I’ve always used der. However, my trusty Duden insists it can be either die or das (but definitely not der). One of my weakest links in German is articles, I will [...]

I’m feeling a bit nutty…

Here is another edition of my series “A Glimpse into Other Blogs.” This one is David Lebovitz’s blog. David lives and works in Paris, after having spent many years working, among other employers, for Alice Waters’ restaurant Chez Panisse. His humorous and informative blog on living and baking (as well as [...]

High-Brot Diet

When I left the United States in August 2004 on a direct Lufthansa flight from Portland to Frankfurt I exhaled. Not only was I incredibly excited to spend a year in Hamburg, and not at Smith, but I also was leaving the booming no-carb diet behind. Just a couple days before I left, [...]