ICIF Week IV
Fourth Week in Culinary School. No, we don’t make only bread, but we sure eat a lot of it.
Germany: Munich
Stepping off the train from Vienna felt just like coming home. I love Munich for many reasons beyond my understanding. Maybe those deep roots do have an influence after all. My great grand-father was German and my great grand-mother was Austrian or Hungarian– or both. I, on the other hand, never had any interest in…
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Vienna: Grinzing
Heuriger is pretty much an Austrian wine tavern where wineries serve their latest vintage or their freshest wines along with traditional Austrian food. Heueriger means ‘this year’, which refers to this year’s harvest. The word comes from the Latin ‘hodie’, meaning ‘this day’, however it wasn’t until 1784 that emperor Joseph II allowed Viennese vintners…
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Vienna: Weingut Wieninger
Imagine you wake up in the morning and you head to your train station to catch your local train. A couple of stops later you get off at Weingut Wieninger. Wow, that’s something. Vienna is the only capital with vineyards within its city limits. Heuriger is a long tradition that started in 1784 when the…
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Austria: Vienna
The next day my friend Silvana and I took a train from Munich’s Hauptbahnhof to Vienna, capital of Austria and UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001. Founded around 500BC, Vienna was once the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that ended after the first World War in 1918. The city though, seems to have been preserved…
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