My German husband’s not usually much of a cook, but he can turn out a mean Zwiebelkuchen. Literally translated, a Zwiebelkuchen is an onion cake, which doesn’t sound that appetising. But apparently it’s not all in a name.
My first memories of Zwiebelkuchen are from outdoor parties like the annual wine festival where local vineyards sell [...]
News out of Moscow these days seems to alternate between another luxury hotel being built where people will have to pay a thousand dollars a night for a room, through to an extreme opposite - ordinary people are without hot water for weeks at a time. It might be summer, but that doesn’t mean that [...]
When I first arrived in Japan, I was tricked by street markets and stalls who wrote their prices using the Japanese characters for numbers - and more than once I bought something that was more expensive than I’d hoped by confusing the kanji for seven and nine.
I thought in Europe, things would be easier. But [...]