Food, Wine & Beer

What does a typical German eat and drink? Looking into their food and drink is important as these two elements are significant manifestations of culture. This post will cover Germany's culinary landscape, wine and most importantly beer cultures.

German Cuisine

German cuisine has Mediterranean influences from immigrants who have set up restaurants all over country that date back since the 1960s. This is what makes German cuisine so interesting with the blends and mix of Greek, Italian, Spanish, Turkish and Yugoslavian cooking.

With all these influences from globalisation, there are still a few traditional food staples that are unique to the German diet. The three staples are bread, sausages and potato – Kartoffel.

There are about 200 kinds of bread of which their styles range from light and crusty, with nuts or sunflower seeds and many other different varieties.

Volkornbrot

Leinsamenbrot

Pumpernickle

Roggenbrot

Germany is just as famous for their sausage, the Wurst. Just like German bread, there hundreds of different kinds of sausages. About 1500 varieties of sausages are said to be existed.

To see how Wurst are made: Sausage Making.

The last staple which is the Kartoffel , is cooked in basically any way. The Germans have come up with dozens of creative ways to cook this lowly vegetable.

Now that the staples have been identified, what are some typical German dishes?

1.      Sauerbraten (marinated beef pot-roast served with red cabbage and dumplings)

2.      Rinderouladen (Beef rolls)

3.      Schweinshaxn (roast pork knuckle)