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March 5, 2009
A suitably wintery evening
It's nothing like the March snow storm I've been reading about in America, but it's snowing hard right now.
I watched the snow, had supper, and read a ghost story in German - one of those great turn-of-the-20th-Century ghost stories where in the end the Benedictine monk provides the naturalistic explanation - it was a scorpion in the bed linens all along, not a ghost! The monk killed it with a brick from the wall the count had, in desperation, had thrown up across the door to the haunted room. Problem solved.
You know, one of my hidden talents is finding restaurants where the half of the clientele is also reading something, so there's no officious rushing of those who aren't eating or drinking. Then I go back a time or two until they recognize me; I've found the place in Freiburg - Auerhahn - an utterly ungemütlich and slightly foodie Lokal. You know, some aggressively local ingredients and such, but good schnitzel, good beer, good service! Tonight I had a turkey Schnitzel - yum!
So far all non-specialty salads in Freiburg are the same - an salad with discreet, untossed elements in different quarters of the plate. I finally asked what the vaguely pickled sliced white things were; I was sure they weren't beets - that would be against the Tinkler Code. The waitress told me they were radishes, but they would have to have been bigger than the average American radish. I'll find out!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 5, 2009 8:15 PM