German cooking


Related to the writing of a short story: There are a lot of clichés
what foreign cooking is like, some nearly correct, most wrong. Italians
add tomatoes and basil to everything, the Dutch prefer mashed potatoes
mixed with mashed vegetables, you can "Russify" any dish by adding lots
of sour cream etc.

Coming from Germany, I know little foreign clichés about German
cooking. I guess sausages will be mentioned often, but are there other
clichéd ingredients, spices etc.? It seems to me that most non-German
cuisines use less mustard, but that might be completely coincidental.

And, just to refill my cliché reservoir: What tropes do you know about
other national styles of cooking? Related to the actual act of cooking,
preferably, not "they say xyzian kitchens are often dirty".

Jörg

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