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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
The Pleasures of East BerlinLast night I ate at the Sophieneck. I started with a Zwiebelkuchen, a soft baked square of dough larded in two kinds of onion and fresh bacon bits. There was so much onion it tasted flowery. Then I had a bowl of soljanka, which is a salty red Hungarian paprika stew with chunks of sausage, garnished with lemon. Then a shapely glass of Erdinger weissbier. For dessert, a Cuban cigar. I shouldn't smoke, since I have asthma, but the twin madnesses of (liberal) smoking laws and (conservative) Cuban embargoes keep this particular pleasure off the Californian menu. My waitress served it on a plate, with cigar-clipper and matches.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
8:27 PM
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