Germany’s Raw Art: the Mettigel

Raw pork is the umlaut answer to the American molded potato salad or ham-and-bananas hollandaise.
Raw pork is the umlaut answer to the American molded potato salad or ham-and-bananas hollandaise.
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Paula Redes Sidore moves smoothly between the worlds of wine and words. In 2012, she founded Weinstory, a creative content and translation agency dedicated to transposing the world of German-speaking wine into English. TRINK is the natural extension of that pursuit. She is the German and Austrian regional specialist for jancisrobinson.com and a member of the Circle of Wine Writers. Paula has a Masters degree in fiction writing, and her work has been featured in jr.com, Sevenfifty Daily, Feinschmecker, and Heated. She lives on the northern wall of wine growing with her family in Bonn, Germany.
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