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This is where we spotlight some of the great voices in food and wine. They share their inspiration, creativity, culture, and humanity. Each features a recipe and wine pairing, as well as some of the finest writing out there illuminating it. In addition to tons of pro tips for upleveling your eating and drinking game, you’ll find cultural specialties from across Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Humorous, whimsical, serious, and sentimental, we’ve got a read for every craving. Pull up a chair, grab a glass and a cutting board, and join us!

Bottles of German wine are lined up behind a sliced loaf of Bauernbrot

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Your German Wines Are Begging for Bauernbrot

ByMartin Sorge June 26, 2024July 1, 2024

Star-baker Martin Sorge wants you to up your bread game. Wine pairings including.

Baking ingredients are set out on a counter below a bright window. A bottle of wine and wine glass are centered.

Alto Adige · Eat+TRINK · Italy

A Star Baker’s Obsession with an Alpine Cake Elevates an Unlikely Wine

ByMartin Sorge March 18, 2024April 25, 2024

A baker falls in love with hiking, cake and wine in the Italian wine region of Südtirol-Aldo Adige and returns home to recreate the textures and flavors.

Seeking an Alt Route to Choucroute

Eat+TRINK · Alsace

Seeking an Alt Route to Choucroute

ByJoyce Lin October 18, 2023November 9, 2023

Joyce Lin gives a traditional and beloved Taiwanese dish an umlaut twist and a fresh French pairing.

Bottle of red wine from Valle Isarco next to a white plate of Eight Treasure Rice on a white tablecloth bordered by a flower bouquet

Alto Adige · Eat+TRINK

Eat + TRINK | A Sweet Delicacy Calls for Schiava

ByJoyce Lin January 22, 2023November 10, 2023

Lunar New Year (aka Spring Festival, or Guo Nian in Mandarin) is arguably the most important holiday for people of Chinese heritage — especially in Taiwan, where…

Spiral collection of dry-farmed tomato varieties such as Big Rainbow from Erich Stekovics in Burgenland featured in Austria's 2023 Koch-Campus.

Eat+TRINK · Austria · Burgenland

Big Rainbow Love in Burgenland

ByUrsula Heinzelmann November 16, 2022March 22, 2024

Calling from the expansive, flat landscape that forms the western edge of the Pannonian Puszta steppe flatlands, Erich Stekovics is a lone voice in the…

Bottle of Lagrein Riserva from Alto Adige next to a white plate of Jing Jian Rou Si beside a small bouquet

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Eat + TRINK | The Yin-Yang of Lagrein and Jing Jiang Rou Si

ByJoyce Lin November 16, 2022February 11, 2024

TRINK Magazine | It was a wine, not a memory, that motivated Joyce Lin to make Jing Jian Rou Si: the Kellerei Kaltern 2018 Lagrein Riserva ‘Largeith.’ Recipe and pairing included.

Alto Adige wine bottle from Kellerei Tramin beside a small round of wrapped Larix cheese from Eggemoa

Eat+TRINK · Italy

The Delicious Dichotomy of Alto Adige

ByUrsula Heinzelmann July 21, 2022November 14, 2023

Earth and sky. Airborne and grounded. The power and pleasure of reimagined wine and cheese from Cantina Tramin and Eggemoa Dairy.

Bottle of Franken Silvaner and cut handkäse for Eat+Trink

Germany · Eat+TRINK

Ode to Humble Handkäse

ByUrsula Heinzelmann May 11, 2022February 17, 2024

Can you hear the music? Forget onions and vinegar: this Franken co-ferment hits harmonies as only Handkäse can do.

Photograph of Mettigel, raw art, a German party classic with onion spikes on a bed of lettuce.

Germany · Eat+TRINK

Germany’s Raw Art: the Mettigel

ByPaula Redes Sidore May 11, 2022February 21, 2024

Raw pork is the umlaut answer to the American molded potato salad or ham-and-bananas hollandaise.

Bottle of Pinot Bianco from Kellmeir next to plate of Tonkatsu, rice and vegetables. Flower bouquet and horizontal wine glass

Alto Adige · Eat+TRINK

Eat + TRINK | Weissburgunder meets “Schnitzel”

ByJoyce Lin February 18, 2022November 10, 2023

TRINK Magazine | Japanese Tonkatsu proves an ideal pairingwith 2018 Alto Adige’s Kettmeir Pinot Bianco.

Eat + TRINK | Go Austrian with Tafelspitz This Holiday

Austria · Eat+TRINK

Eat + TRINK | Go Austrian with Tafelspitz This Holiday

ByEmily Campeau December 17, 2021November 11, 2023

12/17/2021 Eat & TRINK | Go Austrian for Your Holiday Feast By Emily Campeau Tomato season rolled right into the root vegetable months, and…

Eat + TRINK | Wurstsalat as Mood Board

Germany · Eat+TRINK

Eat + TRINK | Wurstsalat as Mood Board

ByEmily Campeau October 29, 2021November 11, 2023

I felt lonely on the Internet the day I started researching the origins of Wurstsalat. I looked in far-flung corners of the web for sausage scholars…