Ennstal Black and White
Top: Campers stowed for the season in the Aigen campground. Bottom: View towards Puttererschlössl from across the lake. Established in 1200, it was the seat of a fancy local land baron. Now, it’s a youth hostel.
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N is for Nussroulade
There are a few kinds of roulade in Austria and they all involve rolling one thing up inside another thing and then cooking it, slicing it, and eating it. Or, you might cook something, then roll stuff up inside it, slice it, and eat it. There’s a beef roulade which has pickels, onions, bacon, and …
M is for Mohnkuchen
Austria cultivates about 1000 metric tons of poppy seeds (mohn) annually. They’re not the biggest global producer, that’s Pakistan, but they’ve been at it for a good long time. Poppy seeds are used in lots of Austrian dishes, nearly all of them sweet, including dumplings, noodles, and as a filling in many different kinds of …
P is for Punschkrapfen
The “punschkrapfen” — punch donut — is very much its own thing now, but my understanding is that once, it was what you did with your leftover cake. See, running a traditional Austrian bakery meant you were always fussing with your cake, slicing the top off so you could layer it on top of the …
Two Pictures from Oregon
Left: Fern Ridge reservoir, drained for winter. Right: Mural in Springfield.
Guest Post: African Reunion
“Are you going to Africa?” the driver asked as I sat down in my taxi to the Seattle airport. Were my REI conversion pants were a giveaway? “Yes,” I told him, “I’m headed to Tanzania.” “I knew it! When you got in the cab I was immediately happy,” he shouted. As a college student in …