1971, the year Eckart Witzigmann started as head chef at Munich restaurant Tantris, is generally considered the birth of German gourmet cuisine. Wolfram Siebeck once remarked that this moment divided post-war German cuisine into two…
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In the early Middle Ages, it is still widely believed that rich and poor ate essentially the same food and that the…
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The current problems in German agriculture are numerous. But they are not the real cause of the recent protests. Rather, they articulate…
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In a comedy written around 200 BC, the poet Plautus has a Greek mock the Romans as ” mash-eating barbarians”. He was…
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Breaking with Jewish tradition The Jewish world has probably known Passover celebrations since the construction of the first Temple in Jerusalem, i.e.…
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The creator of gastronomy Archestratus also came from Sicily, the culinary hotspot of ancient Greece. However, he does not speak well of…
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The first cookbook author What distinguishes the art of cooking from simple good food? Or from the luxury on display? Certainly it…
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The world’s oldest recipe collection The invention of gastronomy did not take place in the Egypt of the first pharaohs, nor in…
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This project was originally intended to be a book, but the crisis in publishing, high paper prices and expensive image rights have…
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