Although we live in California, we always eat a traditional German Christmas Dinner menu for Christmas Day. When I was growing up, we would alternate Christmas dinner between our house and my godmother’s house. All the kids dressed in our new Christmas Clothes (nice sweaters, even though it could be in the 80s in Southern California). Mom’s or Tante Annemarie’s…
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Growing Up a German Girl in America
Eating Salami in a Peanut Butter World… Hi, I’m Karen, the voice behind German Girl in America, I was born in California, but my heart has always been in Germany. My parents are German and emigrated to the US in the ’60s to start a new life. Fortunately for me, much of the life they thought they’d left behind came…