Today on Food on Fridays we focus on a few fabulous fall festival foods, featuring freshly formed flatbreads. Continue reading
Food on Fridays: Fall Festival Foods
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The autumn that never was
It has seemed like autumn never truly arrived here in Tübingen this year. We had unseasonably warm weather for a while in September and October, and now it’s cold and dreary, feeling more like winter than anything else. Continue reading
Signs of St. Martin
Yesterday was November 11th, which is Veteran’s day/Armistace Day in many countries. As I’ve previously blogged about, here in Germany — in a tradition that predates WWI — it was the “11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” that signals the start of the Carnival season, at least in the city of Köln, as well as a few other places in Germany. Continue reading
The Cologne Wars: The Rest of the Story
To borrow the line from the late Paul Harvey and his radio shows: now for the rest of the story … about the Cologne Wars, rife with intrigue and a whiff of scandal. Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: The Cologne Wars
Today on Monday Mysteries we take a look at the history of eau de cologne, and the centuries-old debate about who the true inventor of this perfume really was.
Food on Fridays: A Pumpkin Dessert
Today on Food on Fridays I want to talk about pumpkin, a food that factors into a traditional autumn dessert in North America, but not here in Germany.
Eis de Cologne
Although we didn’t actually have any Eis (“ice cream”) in Cologne while we were there, it was clear that people in Cologne like their ice cream, just like in Italy they like their gelato. Continue reading
An Eiffel Trifle
When we visited the Pompidou Museum in Paris in September, I was struck by a photo by François Kollar. Kollar’s photo is intriguing, as it seems to show twin Eiffel Towers: Continue reading
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It’s time to get back to Paris – well, at least here on the blog.
Monday Mysteries: The Silver Ones are Green
Today on Monday Mysteries we find an answer to a question that Chris and I had when we were in London in September: why are some of the London buses painted silver?