German cooking is the most systematically underestimated culinary tradition in Europe — dismissed as heavy, meat-centric, and unsophisticated by the same French cultural hierarchy that dismissed British cooking. The reality: German cooking is built on the most sophisticated preservation culture in Europe (sauerkraut, schnapps, black bread, the sausage tradition, the pickle tradition), one of the world's great bread cultures, and a regional diversity that spans from the wine-drinking Rhineland to the beer-drinking Bavaria to the coastal seafood of the North Sea.
The German culinary foundation.
BRITISH ISLES + GERMAN/CENTRAL EUROPEAN + PACIFIC ISLAND