| Your online resource for all things culinary Home Search this Site Online Shop Feedback RECIPES BY CATEGORY Starters/Hors d'ourvre Soups Main Courses Accompaniments ... Specials/Holidays RESOURCE PAGES Conversion Charts (All) Culinary Terms Growing Herbs and Vegetables Ingredient Analysis ... World Cuisine History/Recipes SITE INFORMATION About Us Advertise/Sponsor Printing Recipes Private Privacy ... Media Resources .Germany Cooking by Country April German Featured Ingredient German Speciality Dish Cooking by Country Main Page Scroll down for Recipes Germany is situated in Central Europe, with a 2,389 km coastline on the Baltic and North Seas and borders with France, Poland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Holland (The Netherlands), Austria, Switzerland and Denmark, all of which countries, or at least portions thereof, were part of the German Empire at one time or another. Ancient Times and Influences The fertile terrain and ample water supplies made for good grazing and Germany has always been rich in beef, dairy cattle, sheep, and pigs. Thus, until the Middle Ages, the German diet mainly consisted of meat and their by-products i.e. milk and cheese. Smoking, marinating and salting techniques were developed to store the abundance of meat, a practice which has survived and is evident with their myriad of sausages and preserved foods. The Romans were the probably the first to make any significant comment on German food. Latin literature records that German cuisine was a simple affair, consisting of a lot of meat and a lot of mead. By 96 AD, the Romans completed their colonisation of regions in southern Germany and it is undeniable that their eating and drinking habits influenced the German cuisine. | |
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