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Luxembourg Essentials
A considered first route through Luxembourg: the foods that carry its everyday habits, celebrations, ingredients, and memory.
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7 foods to know.
Each selection includes the reason it belongs here—so this is a guide, not just a pile of names.
Luxembourg
Judd mat Gaardebounen
Smoked pork collar over creamy broad beans and potatoes, Luxembourg’s unmistakable national plate.
Luxembourg
Bouneschlupp
Green-bean and potato soup with smoked sausage, a brasserie staple with visible beans and bacon.
Luxembourg
Gromperekichelcher
Ragged fried potato cakes eaten from market paper with apple sauce at Luxembourg festivals.
Luxembourg
Kniddelen
Soft flour-and-egg dumplings finished with bacon and cream, the rustic Luxembourg winter dish.
Luxembourg Moselle, Luxembourg
Rieslingspaschtéit
Cold pastry loaf of marinated veal and pork with a central layer of Riesling jelly.
Luxembourg Moselle, Luxembourg
Friture de la Moselle
Fritür
Tiny Moselle fish fried whole and eaten with lemon beside a glass of local wine.
Luxembourg
Quetschentaart
Late-summer damson tart with tightly packed fruit whose juice caramelises on the pastry base.