Paper, paper everywhere …
How would you translate the German word “Zettelwirtschaft”? Piles of paperwork? Paper chaos? Bits of paper everywhere?
You don’t know the word? Deutsche Welle explains it nicely.
Germans’ love affair with potatoes
Germans eat tons of potatoes every year, according to this Deutsche Welle article (and slideshow). Whether fried, baked, sliced, grated, rolled, as dumplings or shredded, mixed with onions and deep fried.
Did you know that over 5,000 varieties are grown today?
Summer food in Germany
What do Germans typically eat during the summer months?
You’ll find the answers in Deutsche Welle’s slideshow. Yes, it’s not always sausages, sauerkraut and potatoes!
Breakfast in Germany
“How to eat breakfast like a weltmeister“? That’s the title of this Deutsche Welle video clip.
Learn what Germans eat for breakfast. And how breakfast at the weekends might differ.
(You’ll also learn how to pronounce the name of that famous Dutch cheese – “Gouda”!)
Do you have knickknacks lying around the house?
Do you know the word “knickknacks”?
They are all those small, worthless objects that we seem to gather over the years. As Deutsche Welle writes, you might find them “tucked away in the kitchen drawer, hiding in the closet, gathering dust on the shelf, or packed up in a box under the bed”.
The word sounds very much like its German translation – “Krimskrams”.
