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KOCHKUNST - BACKLUST - ESSKULTUR

The Art of Cooking, Joy of Baking and Culture of Eating

On this page you can find some inspiration for the individual tasks of the Oxford German Olympiad 2023.

For a full list of all the tasks you can choose from, click here.

 

Brotkultur

Roggenbrot, Mischbrot, Vollkornbrot, Pumpernickel, Schrippe, Sauerteigbrot, ... Germans are so serious about bread there's even a German Institute for Bread! And did you know that some years ago the tradition of German Breadmaking was added to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list? Have a look at the following links and learn more about the Brotkultur ("bread culture") in Germany and German speaking countries. Who knows, maybe you'll even get inspired to attempt your very own sourdough?

https://www.brotinstitut.de/brotkultur

https://www.greekchemistinthekitchen.com/post/rye_bread

 

Gerichte mit Geschichte

Ever heard of Spaghetti Ice Cream? No, it is not ice cream made out of spaghetti. Spaghettieis, or spaghetti ice cream, is a German ice cream dish made to resemble a plate of spaghetti. In the dish, vanilla ice cream is extruded through a potato ricer, giving it the appearance of spaghetti. It is then topped with strawberry sauce (to simulate tomato sauce) and white chocolate shavings to represent the parmesan cheese. Spaghettieis was created by Dario Fontanella in the late 1960s in Mannheim, Germany. Fontanella recalls serving his innovative creation to children who broke into tears because they wanted ice cream and not a plate of spaghetti. Today, it is a staple on most German ice cream parlour menus, but remains relatively unknown internationally.

Another dish with an interesting name is Himmel und Erde (heaven/sky and earth). It is a traditional dish most popular in the regions of the Rhineland, Westphalia, and Lower Saxony. It consists of black pudding, fried onions, and mashed potato with apple sauce. It has been known since the 18th century. The name of the dish originates from the name of two of the main ingredients, apples and potatoes. A German dialect word for potato is Erdapfel (English: earth/ground apple), so there are two kinds of "apples" in the dish: the apples coming from the trees, i.e. from up in the sky, and the potatoes coming from the ground. 

 

Kochen wie die Pfahlbauer/innen

Find out what food people ate in the Bronze Age. The website and food blog https://palafitfood.com/ was created by five archeologists and gives insights into and recipes recreating the diet of people who lived in the prehistoric stilt houses on Lake Constance.