Austrian culinary tradition

How to make the perfect crumb coating

Breading and baking has a very long tradition in the Austrian cuisine. Meat was dipped early in flour and baked out in hot fat. Thus...

Vienna Weather – the best food for storm or sunshine

Regardless of the time of the year and the weather in Vienna: There’s always comfort in eating the right food. Rainy, stormy weather? Have some...

Austrian culinary tradition

The Sound of Music

“The sound of music” is world famous. The story of the singing Trapp family, which appeared as a book in 1949, was immortalized as a...

Austrian culinary tradition

Tavern Culture

“Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang, der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang.” (“He who doesn’t love wine, women and song remains a fool...

Austrian culinary tradition

Jausen Culture at the Wine Tavern

For us Austrians, it is a piece of our identity. The name “Heurige”, or wine tavern, derives from “heuer” which means “this year’s” and the...

Austrian culinary tradition

Celebration Culture

“Festivities should be celebrated as and when they come” – goes an old saying which couldn’t be any better suited to Austria. Therefore, now we...

Austrian culinary tradition

Austrian Christmas

“I would like my Austrian Christmas as always …” … sang the famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros. Between you and me, who doesn’t think the...

Italian Recipes

Why can you find Italian Recipes on an Austrian Cooking Portal? Because we just LOVE everything about our southern neighbor. We cherish the sea, the...

Austrian culinary tradition

Austrian Fast Food at the Würstelstandl

We Austrians are only too familiar with this feeling: we’re going around town, have done a lot of shopping and then suddenly our stomachs start...

Austrian culinary tradition

Coffee House Culture

It’s coffee time… Coffee house literature, rustling newspapers, heated conversations and the ever-present cigarette smoke in the air which is occasionally covered by the aroma...