Re: In Germany, a new eating class emerges

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Giusi <decobabeone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

While I have enjoyed very much the few Michelin starred restaurants at
which
I've eaten, they are not reflective in a substantial way of the local
(national) cuisine. They always seem to be a German version of a French
restaurant, or an Italian version...

Michelin has always been considered notoriously unreliable in Italy.
Yet, not so long ago, it was the only guide available, as there were no
Gambero Rosso or Veronelli.

Affettato toscano con crostini L. 2500
Panzanella alla campagnola L. 2000

Tegamino di zuppa alla contadina (Ribollita) L. 1700

Pulpitielli veraci affogati con piselli L. 6500
Baccalà alla livornese L. 4500
Fritto di funghi porcini L. 7500
Fritto di cervello schienali e fiori di zucca L. 6000
Tegamino di trippa alla fiorentina L. 4500
Bistecca alla fiorentina L. 17000 al kg. per due persone

Ah! Now I want to go back there!

For those prices the whole country wants to go with you. I try to ask
someone who lives there, someone who is helping me at whatever-- a vendor in
the market if I want a simpler place, a phone call to a friend who lives
there for an upper end place. www.divinacucina.com has a very reliable list
for all the neighborhoods of Florence and is written by a chef friend of
mine whose expertise I know. So far we've disagreed about one restaurant,
but we haven't ordered the same things. One of the best meals I have eaten
in all Puglia was recommended by a cheese stall owner in the Sat market.
Here in my town the Michelin starred restaurant is good, but modern
euro-chow with great wine list. It isn't expensive, but for half the money
you can eat very well indeed, if not drink so well.
I also like to adventure a bit and poike my head into places not mentioned
anywhere. In October I ate a plate of fried chicken and vegetables in a
fluorescent-lit Florence dive that was so good I wanted to eat it everyday--
but it was a daily special.

The rest rings true, though. It was difficult to find German restaurants
in
Meerbusch and Dusseldorf. Pizza, pasta, souvlaki, shishkebab etc. were
all
you saw ordinarily.

Not the Weinhaus Tante Anna, by any chance?

I haven't any memory of its name. Lots of sausages, anyway. I had seen
hundreds if them at the supermarkets but none I could get my hands on, so
that's what I wanted. It was in a Medieval part and there were lots of
business travelers in it. A big place.

My friend loves the bread and eats
various things in it or on it. Neither her shopping nor her cooking has
anywhere near the attention given it that someone like her here in Italy
would expend.

Why is this so?

I don't know if it is her or something more characteristic of German
attitudes. Your article seems to place it as a German thing.



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