Wadlstrumpf

I'm in NC, and S just phoned from Germany to say his mom really liked the idea of that lemon cake we made, so could I give him the recip...

Big news: after 29 years of loving S and learning about him and Deutsche Kultur , I finally understand the difference between Torte and Kuc...

I'm back in the U.S. but still have Wadlstrumpf blogging to catch up with. Allow me to begin with some observations about the proper pac...

The photographs in the previous post are somewhat misleading, because they show Semmel on plates. The proper way to eat a Semmel is as foll...

Behold the Semmel in some of its infinite variety: The Semmel* is the most revered of German breakfast foods. Made with refined white flour...

Earlier today, I drafted a blurb on visiting the Freiburg Bürgeramt (public authorities office), but I decided my description sounded unnec...

The Badische Zeitung is reporting today on a crime in Bergkamen , near Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen. A 16-year-old 9th-grader who had been...

One of the differences between dining out in Germany and dining out in the U.S. is that in Germany, no one brings you your bill until you sp...

Elias has a book of very short children's stories in German, by Werner Färber. In one of the stories, a customer enters a small village ...

Elias and I had a date in the Altstadt yesterday afternoon: we caught the new Pettersson und Findus movie at the Harmonie Kino and then had ...

Elias headed off this morning for a two-night field trip to the Landschulheim ("country school home") in Bonndorf (in the Schwarzw...

A month ago, I thought it was just an anomaly. I thought the big Edeka on Habsburger Strasse was simply selling leftovers from last year, cl...

Stefan's brother and sister-in-law returned this evening from their bicycle tour of the Black Forest. Thus I was fresh off a leisurely t...

Now that Sommerferien is over, we are at last finding a balance in our lives between school, work, practice, and play. This morning I practi...

Every day that we're in Freiburg, I look around at the beautiful historic edifices; the flower boxes and carefully tended gardens bright...

Yesterday, we moved into our apartment in Freiburg. After six weeks of traveling, we've finally emptied our suitcases and put them into ...