Stories

If you walk into a German restaurant in the United States and order a Schnitzel, nine times out of ten, it arrives with a mountain of braised red cabbage (Rotkohl) on the side. While it looks colorful on the plate, as a German living in Minnesota, I have to let you in on a little […]

Frohe Ostern, everyone! Easter always brings out my sentimental German side — the part of me that remembers muddy boots, bright yellow flowers, and the smell of woodsmoke drifting across the fields. And of course, the part of me that has to explain (again) why Germans don’t eat ham for Easter. Yes, you read that