This is the German-Cookbook I have been looking for - for Years. I was raised close to the Black forest and it has all the recipes my mother and grandmother used to cook. The only (great) difference: It is more "modern", with all the spices you can buy today. In the Fifties and Sixties my mother had only pepper, salt, bayleaves and maggi in her kitchen. Never heard of garlic, basil, rosmaryn etc. . Believe me, you will cook ALL the recipes in this book. The desserts and cakes are wonderful, too. The recipes are easy to follow and the photos are gorgeous. Because I lived only 50 miles away from the Black Forest, the book is double special. I only wished THIS book came out earlier!

This book is a great present for learners and natives alike and to be kept at hand for a lifetime. Coming in a hardcover set, it will easily go through years of passionate reading. The story is halfway between dream and reality, providing readers with a child-like vision of life. For once it seems that adults might learn from children.... May Der kleine Prinz (The Little Prince) also help you to see today's world from another dimension. With each new reading session you will discover a new angle, corresponding to your actual situation.

I have to confess, I haven't read it - but it's on my reading list if I ever move to New York. From the cover:

German New York City celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who left the poverty and turmoil of 19th- and 20th-century Europe for the promise of a better life in the bustling American metropolis. German immigration to New York peaked during the 1850s and again during the 1880s, and by the end of the 19th century New York had the third-largest German-born population of any city worldwide. German immigrants established their new community in a downtown Manhattan neighborhood that became known as Kleindeutschland or Little Germany. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, much of the German population moved north to the Upper East Side's Yorkville and subsequently spread out to the other boroughs of the city.