
Culinaria Germany – More than Just a Cookbook
Culinaria Germany: A Celebration of Food and Tradition
To be honest, Culinaria Germany is not a standard Cookbook. It’s more like a book about the regions of Germany, and the foods each region specializes in, and why. It’s an encyclopedia of German food! That happens to be a cookbook. This is the type of book you can read cover to cover, or you can just open it anywhere in the book to read a few pages. And as a reference, it’s invaluable… it has EVERYTHING (with this book, you don’t need Google…). AND the recipes inside are spot on.
Culinaria Germany
How thorough is Culinaria Germany? The book contains everything you EVER wanted to know about Potatoes… along with photos and descriptions of different varieties, different types of potato dishes AND recipes. You also find sections on sausages, root vegetables, cabbages and bread; fish, eel, vegetables, fruits and mushrooms, and other important food stuffs that fill German stomachs. There are sections on meats, beef, pork and wild game. A lot is written about sausages, of course. I read with great interest about wine growing in the Rhine and Mosel River Valleys. And of course, many pages are devoted to beer (liquid bread).
Then there are sweets; Cakes, cookies, candies, chocolate and marzipan. Every region has a specialty. The seafaring regions bake with lots of imported spices… the farming regions bake with fruits. And it all looks so good.
Culinaria Germany is a fabulous recipe book for anyone who is at all curious about German food or German History. Because it is divided into simple sections, you can just open up at any point and learn something new. There are a few editions, and the one with the blue cover is the older edition, dated 2007, can be purchased fairly cheaply. The Newer edition is a red, and costs a bit more, but it has been updated. Also, there is an English/German edition.
Culinaria Germany… for anyone who loves Germany and German Food.
Culinaria Germany by Metzger, Christine (2011) Hardcover
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