RECIPES
Berlin & the East:
(Berlin, Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen)
The people from Brandenburg and Saxony share a love of potatoes. Both consider simple dishes delicacies - potatoes cooked in their skins with quark and linseed oil. Try some of the unique meals like Leipziger Allerlei (a vegetable stew with morels and crayfish) or Krautwickel (cabbage rolls with a minced meat filling). The states of Saxony and Thuringia on the other hand cannot agree who first invented dumplings. In both states these fluffy dumplings are eaten as a main course - with meat dishes with lots of gravy. But it is undisputed that the grilled sausage, this spicy masterpiece, was invented hundreds of years ago in Thuringia. International cuisine can be found everywhere in the city of Berlin, but you can also find traditional foods such as Bockwurst, the Berlin Currywurst and Bouletten (a kind of Hamburger). Many people in the east drink a Pilsner with a meal, but in Berlin it will be a Weiße (a light, very fizzy beer flavoured with a dash of raspberry juice or woodruff). The flowery wines from the Elbe and Saale-Unstrut regions, Germany's most northern wine growing region, can be especially recommended as can Rotkäppchen Sekt (champagne).
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