Germany

🇩🇪Hamburg, Germany

Scholle Finkenwerder Art

Scholle Finkenwerder Art pan-fries plaice with bacon and onion, letting the rendered fat season the fish.

🇩🇪Germany

Schwarzbier

Black lager, dark in color but light-bodied, with roasted malt flavor and a clean finish.

🇩🇪Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Schwarzsauer

Schwarzsauer is a North German blood soup sharpened with vinegar and cooked with pork, onions and dried fruit.

🇩🇪Saarland, Germany

Schwenkbraten

Barbecue specialty from Saarland with marinated pork steaks grilled on a swinging schwenker grill over wood fire.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Schwäbischem salzkuchen

Schwäbischem salzkuchen is a dish made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Seele Bread

Seele

Traditional bread from Baden-Württemberg made with wheat and spelt, hand-shaped oblong loaves with caraway and salt.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Semolina Pudding

Griesmeelpudding

Pudding made from semolina, milk, and sugar, a traditional Dutch dessert often served with fruit coulis.

🇦🇹Austria

Semolina Soup

Grießnockerlsuppe

Beef broth with light semolina dumplings (Grießnockerl) as the main ingredient, a classic Austrian soup, delicate and comforting.

🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Siegerländer Krüstchen

Siegerländer Krüstchen is a breaded pork cutlet on rye toast, covered with gravy and a fried egg.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Silvaner Wine

Silvaner

German white wine variety particularly important in Franconia, with earthy, nutty characteristics and good food pairing ability.

🇩🇪Germany

Spaghetti Ice Cream

Spaghettieis

Vanilla ice cream pressed through a noodle press with strawberry sauce and white chocolate shavings.

🇩🇪Germany

Spargel

Spargel refers to German white asparagus, blanched or steamed and served with butter, hollandaise or ham during spring harvest.

🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Speculaas Cookies

Spekulatius

Spiced cookies pressed in wooden molds, from Westphalia and the Rhineland, traditional at Christmas.

🇩🇪Germany

Spitzbuben

Spitzbuben are tender butter cookies sandwiched with red jam, usually with a cut-out window in the top biscuit.

🇩🇪Brandenburg, Germany

Spreewald Gherkins

Spreewälder Gurken

Protected Spreewald gherkins are crisp cucumbers preserved in seasoned brine, with dill and herb variations.

🇩🇪Germany

Spritzgebaeck

Spritzgebaeck are piped butter cookies baked into ridged rings or fingers with crisp edges and a short tender crumb.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Steamed Dumplings

Dampfnudeln

Yeast dough dumplings steamed in water, milk, and butter, then fried until a crispy crust forms on the bottom.

🇩🇪Berlin, Germany

Strammer Max

German open-faced sandwich from Berlin with bread topped with cured ham and a fried egg, served warm.

🇩🇪Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Stuffed Pork Stomach

Pfälzer Saumagen

Stuffed pork stomach from the Palatinate, filled with potatoes, pork, and spices, then sliced and fried.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Swabian Maultaschen

Schwäbische Maultaschen

Swabian pasta pockets filled with meat, spinach, or breadcrumbs, similar to ravioli, EU-protected PGI.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Swabian Pretzel

Schwäbische Brezel

Soft pretzel from Swabia with a distinctive looped shape, deep brown crust, and soft chewy interior.

🇸🇪Sweden

Swedish Crispbread

Knäckebröd

Traditional Swedish crispbread made from rye flour, baked until dry and crunchy with a hole in the center for storage.

🇦🇹Austria

Swiss Sausage Salad

Wurstsalat

A cold salad of julienned cervelat or Lyoner sausage, Emmentaler, onions, pickles and vinaigrette, a lunch-counter standard across German Switzerland.

🇩🇪Germany

Tea Sausage

Teewurst

Air-dried spreadable raw sausage from Pomerania, made from pork and bacon, cold-smoked over beechwood.

🇩🇪Nuremberg, Germany

Three in a Roll

Drei im Weggla

Nuremberg street food with a circular bun stuffed with three grilled Nürnberger sausages and mustard.

🇩🇪Thuringia, Germany

Thuringian Bratwurst

Thüringer Rostbratwurst

Traditional sausage from Thuringia dating to 1613, finely minced pork seasoned with caraway and marjoram.

🇩🇪Thuringia, Germany

Thuringian Dumplings

Thüringer Klöße

Quintessential Thuringian potato dumplings made with grated raw and mashed cooked potatoes, filled with bread cubes.

🇩🇪Germany

Tree Cake

Baumkuchen

German spit cake with characteristic tree-ring layers from baking on a rotating spit, labor-intensive.

🇩🇪Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Tüften un Plum

Tüften un Plum is a Mecklenburg sweet-savoury soup combining potatoes with plums, onion and bacon.

🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Underberg

Underberg is a Rheinberg herbal bitter made from a secret blend of botanicals and bottled in small brown digestif bottles.

🇦🇹Austria

Vanilla Crescents

Vanillekipferl

Crescent-shaped vanilla cookies with ground nuts, coated in vanilla sugar, the quintessential Austrian Christmas cookie, buttery and crumbly, festive.

🇩🇪Saarland, Germany

Verheiratete

Verheiratete are Saarland potato-and-flour dumplings served together with a bacon, onion and cream sauce.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Viennese Fried Chicken

Backhendl

Backhendl is jointed chicken fried in a crisp breadcrumb coat, a Viennese specialty with a long-established southern German tradition.

🇩🇪Germany

Vodka Nikolaschka

Vodka Nikolaschka is a vodka cocktail served with lemon, sugar and coffee so the sip moves from citrus to bitter roast.

🇩🇪Germany

Wedding Soup

Hochzeitssuppe

Traditional wedding soup with chicken broth, meatballs, asparagus, and egg custard (Eierstich).

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Weisslacker

Weisslacker is a rindless Bavarian cow-milk cheese with a dense white body, salty taste and famously pungent aroma.