Finding pumpkin for that vital pumpkin pie can be tough when you live in Europe. It's not that pumpkin doesn't grow here (some of the best breeds are grown in France and make their way all over the continent). But there doesn't seem to be much of an...

Those of us who routinely spend Thanksgiving off the North American continent but still try to lay out a traditional Thanksgiving dinner probably all have our own stories about failing to find some vital missing ingredient, and then being forced to...

In a part of the world best known for serious cakes like the Schwarzwalder kirschtorte and substantial desserts like the famous Dampfnudeln (sweet steamed dumplings), some people find the appearance on Munich menus of something called Bayerisch...

No one's all that sure where the word "gugelhupf" comes from. This problem isn't simplified by the fact that it's spelled ten or fifteen different ways depending on where you are in central Europe -- the twin epicenters of the cake apparently being the...

When summer turns to fall in central Europe, the fruit sellers in the street markets start offering piles of beautiful juicy plums -- especially some of the small heirloom varieties that the supermarkets can't or won't carry. This is the signal for...