Black Forest Cuicine

What do you immediately think of when you hear Black Forest cuisine? I thought of the cake.

Black forest cuisine : the classic blending of European flavors [TX721.S73 2006X ]by Walter Staib is available at the Mountain View campus.

From Publishers Weekly - For the uninitiated, this collection of recipes makes an apt introduction to the cuisine of southwest Germany. Inflected with French, Swiss and Italian traditions, Black Forest cookery goes beyond the sauerkrauts, wursts and späetzles we associate with German food—though there's plenty of that here, too. In his introduction, the chef/owner of Philadelphia's historic City Tavern reveals that there are many similarities between the postwar eating habits of his native Black Forest and the 18th-century American dishes he now serves on a nightly basis ....[more]

Now I know what to borrow for the weekend so I can create my own Oktoberfest at home!

-kss