DINING - CUISINE - FOOD - DRINK

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Good food that is healthy, well-prepared, and served with care, is very important to most Europeans. Here is just about everything relating to food and drink in German-speaking regions that someone new to the topic should know about.

EXERCISES and TEACHING

  1. My German Food.com
  2. Food matching one, two, three, four
  3. Vocab One, Vocab Two, Vocab Three, Vocab Four, Vocab Five
  4. Word Search
  5. Hangman with Fruit, Restaurant
  6. Cool food dictionary - click the topics at the top IN ORDER
  7. Food and Table settings - match the words
  8. Who wants to be a millionaire?
  9. READ the vocab then Test Yourself - basic foods from Deutsch im Netz
  10. Matching Stores and shops
  11. Extra Vocab matching one and two
  12. My webquest on German food
  13. Iron Chef vocab - how to state opinions, describe their cooking and dishes?
  14. German Dining Guide and Phrase book from About.com
  15. Katherine Munro's Collection of Food-related activities
  16. BBC multimedia unit with exercises on Shopping: Was darf es sein?
  17. NEW: Electrolux - virtual home German: kitchen, rooms, appliances, etc. In German
  18. Essen (eat) oder trinken (drink)? Good exercises plus der/die/das activity
  19. Great German Food site by David Nutting in Australia.
  20. Beth Vahlsing's Guten Appetit, Lebensmittel 1: Food nouns Lebensmittel 2 verbs, etc.
  21. Quiz related to Food and Drink vocabulary.
  22. Numerous exercises on Essen (Food), Küche (cuisin), Lebensmittel (groceries), etc.
  23. Practice your food vocabulary. Vocab with sound files from OK State.
  24. Shopping exercise - price and purchase the items in Austrian schillings
  25. Here's a sort of scavenger hunt of unique German foods to know.
  26. Food and Health Exercises from Katherine Munro
  27. Convert pounds, ounces, gallons, etc. into metric.
  28. Food vocabulary with pictures from UVic. Read the top and click on correct picture
  29. Sentence completion - conjugate the verb trinken

INTRODUCTIONS and ISSUES

  • German vs. US culture plus Eating and dining customs, habits, health notions, etc.. More info
  • Photos of some German foods from the Really Useful German Site
  • Photos of German food stores, restaurants, etc. - click on Läden, Bäckerei, etc. Authentic!
  • Who's fatter - Americans or Germans?
  • Metric? Convert measurements to metric and back.
  • Focus on Ethic Cuisine: Germany
  • The Global Gourmet: Germany. Foods of North and South.
  • The World Travel Guide Online: Food and Dining in Germany.
  • Article discusses how Germans are eating more cheese, drinking less, still smoking alot and becoming annoyed at the compromising of their high standards of quality control (example: vegetable fat vs. cocoa in chocolate).

    FOOD CULTURE and CUSTOMS

  • Is German chocolate cake really German?
  • German vs. American culture plus Eating and dining customs, habits, health notions, etc.
  • The German influence on American food culture.
  • BBC Business: teaching units on Eating and Drinking.
  • BBC Cultural Notes: Mealtimes and Tipping.

    GENERAL SITES

  • Excellent links to Food and Drink in Germany - famous sites, foods, companies
  • Yahoo: links to companies (Firmen)
  • Essen, Trinken, Genussmittel: huge index of foods, companies, etc.
  • Amazing DINO-Online Essen und Trinken. Complete!
  • Sharelook index: Essen und Trinken of all food items in German.
  • Also conduct internet searches for various items

    SAUSAGE and MEATS

    Never seen real German-style Wurst? It ain't just cold cuts and it's more than hot dogs.

  • The Tradition of Butchering Day (Schlachttag)
  • The delicacy (?) of scrambled pig brains!
  • German Butchers in the US: Stiglmeier's and Karl Ehmer
  • Bavarian specialties like Weisswurst + eating directions.
  • Meats and seafood from GermanDeli.com
  • Schweinefleisch, Rindfleisch - ok, aber Pferdefleisch???
  • The German love affair with Currywurst.
  • Koenemann offers the pictured $30 Sampler Pak. Pic One and Two
  • 1996 a record 3,000 meter (2 mile) long Bratwurst.
  • Turkish and Greek specialty What is Doner Kebab (gyros) - Germany's new favorite fast food

    • BAKERIES and BREAD

  • Photos of German bakeries and cafes and fast food
  • Click the breads- Grimmiger Bäckerei -
  • Wilkommen im Backhaus Klein. Another great site from an interesting bakery.
  • Click the GALERIEs at Butterbrot.de - with photo gallery. Sandwiches, bread and cold cuts
  • Bäckerei Sieber: pictures, recipes, Brotkalendar, links to Food. Fantastic!
  • Bakery items and baked goods imported by GermanDeli.com
  • One of the most important foods for the German diet - real bread
  • Knoedel - dumplings: Sunday meal staple in Southern Germany and Austria.

    DRINKS and BEVERAGES

  • German attitudes towards drinking tap water and having ice in drinks
  • German drinks and beverages from GermanDeli.com
  • My links to German Beer and coffee. The German Wine Page.
  • Gerolsteiner Mineralwasser - mineral water
  • The History of water as a beverage.
  • What is a Spezi? Is Limonade the same as lemonade?
  • Yahoo candy and sweets, cheese, beverages, etc
  • Coca-Cola Deutschland: wild multimedia site. Try the quiz!

    CHOCOLATE, CANDY, ICE CREAM and OTHER TREATS

  • Milka bars
  • PEZ were first made by an Austrian
  • Haribo Gummi candies
  • The famous purple cow on the wrapper of a typical Milka bar of chocolate.
  • What is Nutella?
  • What are Kinder Surprise Eggs? Order some! Cool toys inside!
  • Glide mouse over the bars for flavors of Ritter-Sport
  • German foods from GermanysBest.com
  • German treats and sweets from GermanDeli.com
  • Toblerone Chocolate. (lame website) and Milka's Lila-Pause
  • Nestle's (Swiss) various candy bars and products, all with games.
  • Langnese Ice Cream
  • Kinder Surprise Eggs and PEZ candies - collectors' sites.
  • Choose PRODUCTS - Haribo GummiBears
  • Yahoo candy and sweets, cheese, beverages, etc
  • The Foreign Candy Company - useful for fundraisers.

    RESTAURANTS and FAST FOOD

  • Click on Bäckerei, Cafe and Fast Food for photos of German restaurants and cafes.
  • World Famous Hofbräuhaus in Munich - menu and items relating to this beer hall.
  • Nice collection of interesting restaurant and shopping links
  • Gastro Scout - restaurants in Germany organized by state - in English and German
  • Greek specialties from a restaurant in Germany
  • Restaurants: Altes Brauhaus: Keller und Küche and the Roter Ochs Gasthaus.
  • Schneithorst's is a nominally Austrian restaurant in St.Louis.
  • University Cafe Menu and more menus . Kneipe and Mensa? Entrees, snacks, drinks, prices.
  • Yahoo Directory: Pizza in Germany (online ordering)
  • PizzaMann from Austria: pizzas, pastas, sides, beverages, etc.
  • Mamma's Pizza and Mr. Pizza are two good food sites.
  • Wild pizzas! Joey's Pizza - exotic pizzas.
  • Kneipen/pubs in Berlin). Kneipenfuehrer bars, restaurants, bistros, Schnellimbisse.
  • Restaurants and Fast Food in Germany: McDonald's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, etc.
  • Burger King
  • McDonald's Germany and McDonald's Switzerland! Look up Pizza Hut and others using the format www.companyname.de. Is this what we call cultural imperialism or just eclecticism, less than a gourmet palate on the part of some? I'll never forget how some German friends laughed about Amis and McDonald's during our whole ride to Paris, and then several of them were too cheap to eat anywhere but McD's once we got there! Celle horreur! (sp?)

    GROCERY STORES, SHOPPING and SPECIAL PRODUCTS

  • Great Photos of German grocery stores - see HaWeGe
  • Deutsches Haus: German Food, Hummels, Beer Steins, Engel-Puppen and more.
  • Kühne and Dr. Oetker: variety of prepared foods, mixes, sauces, jarred foods, condiments
  • Shopping in Germany with Supermarkets and Grocery Stores.
  • Shopping in Germany: stores and supermarkets
  • Onkel Emma Katalog: online grocery with all food items. Shop.de!
  • Excellent shopping and food links from Duveen Penner.
  • Aldi, a German company, and Edeka Supermarket
  • Get German imported foods - GermanDeli.com and Deutscher Laden - German foods and specialties
  • German Corner - products for purchase, imports, etc.
  • Metric? Convert measurements to metric and back. Related webexercise.
  • Swiss products from Roberts European imports in New Glarus, Wisconsin.

    RECIPES

  • Recipes with images from GermanDeli.com
  • Diana's Links to International Recipes: Food and dishes from Germany. Excellent!
  • Another Austrian - chef Wolfgang Puck. Puck biography.
  • Wonderful, workable, traditional recipes from the German Info center.
  • Kochbuch Online System: more than 150,000 German and Austrian recipes!!!
  • Another 11,000 German and Austrian recipes!
  • German Corner - recipes, products for purchase, imports, etc.
  • International Kinderkochbuch. Recipes in English and German.
  • Christmas recipes and info from the German Information Center.

    GAMES - SPIELE

  • Hendl Chicken
  • NEW: use rockwood - german for Spezi bottlecap game and skateboarding
  • Totally nuts - click the word on the rocket ship "DURCHSTARTEN" for Haribo Planet games
  • Milka game - Spiel - Mountain Climber
  • Create your own Mr. Potato Head - choose a veggie, top right
  • Kids, don't drink or do drugs! Instead, play the safe beer-shooting game or drop beer crates
  • Speed Apple-picking - click on the tree
  • Check for Kuehne Pickle-games
  • McDonald's - click on Various games
  • Peanuts!: Ültje Spiele.
  • NEW: Completely nuts Swedish Milch Game

    MISCELLANEOUS CUISINE

    Are you Epicurious? Links to gourmet magazines, food culture and etiquette, games, dining, international cuisine, books and recipes from famous chefs.

    My current favorite in international cuisine and food TV - Iron Chef!!!

    Mimi's Cyber Kitchen with multitude of links, recipes, etc.

    My favorite foods are chicken roti (caribbean), doner and koefte, real yoghurt, anything Indian or curried, Portuguese BBQ chicken, Turkish pizza, eggplant, Ezo gelin soup, Bohnen- and Linsensuppe, German bread and coffee, grilled salmon and other seafood, Canadian and German lagers, English ales, red wines, ouzo/raki, turkish tea.

    Write me with more links and comments. Guten Appetit! Mahlzeit!
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