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Hi, I'm Nino, an unbridled foodnik blogging from Vienna, the city of dreams, the home Sigmund Freud loved and hated. I'm cooking up a therapy with recipes and stories from Viennese cuisine and its eclectic influences – Jewish, Italian, Hungarian, Bohemian... – with an armchair psychoanalytical twist. About Schibboleth→

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1980s Grapefruit Brûlée & Paul Gauguin’s Caramelized Pamplemousse (Recipe) #SchönbrunnPalaceOrangery
A grapefruit's two halves are meant to be shared with your beloved(s). They are like Yoko Ono's Grapefruit dream, which …Read More »
Wine from Vienna: “Wiener Gemischter Satz” #UrbanVineyards
In German, Vienna is Wien, and wine is Wein. Coincidence? Perhaps not. More important, Wein/wine sounds like whine, which surely is …Read More »
Goulash — Vienna’s Beef Stew: Recipe for the Best Uber-Authentic Austro-Hungarian Paprika Gravy Beef Ragoût #WienerSaftgulasch
Even though the name of Vienna's world-famous beef stew is a corruption of the Hungarian word for cowboy, gulyás, the recipe …Read More »
Zwetschkenkuchen (Plum Tart) Politics (recipe & video)
A political dessert - "Blue fruit on a brown base": In autumn, when plums are in season, it is traditional …Read More »
The Freuds’ Tafelspitz – Vienna’s Imperial Simmered Beef: Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha Bernays and their butcher Siegmund Kornmehl (Recipe) #BoiledBeef #PoachedBeef #Horseradish
This potentially dreary Viennese dish of boiled beef, called tafelspitz, is made here with high-grade cuts of meat, which are …Read More »
Perfect Potato Latkes: Yiddish vs. Hebrew & Schmaltz vs. Oil (Recipe) #Erdäpfelpuffer #Rösti
Eight days of intensive testing have yielded this authoritative latke story and recipe. Potato pancakes and hash browns are eaten …Read More »
Vienna Woods Vineyard Heuriger with Scenic View (Reclaiming Heimat) #Kahlenberg
What an incredibly beautiful place, especially in autumn: The vineyards of the legendary Vienna Woods, the Wienerwald! Just look at …Read More »
Best Roast Chicken Recipe: Simple, Juicy & Crispy (Recipe) #VienneseKnobelBrathendl
The average Central European backyard chicken was eaten only once either a family member or the chicken got sick. They're …Read More »
Freud’s Asparagus, the Vegan Wiener – Two Recipes: White French with Hazelnuts and Light Vinaigrette & Sautéed Green Italian with Olives and Lime (Recipe) #VoluptuousVegan #FeministFood
There's hardly any food you would more expect to find on a website dedicated to Freudian recipes – after wiener …Read More »
Blooming Jewish Cheesecake with Tablets of the Law Crust: Freud, Moses & a Mel Brooks Joke (Recipe) #EdibleFlowers #Shavuot #Topfentorte
Jews the world over (but famously in New York and Chicago) love cheesecake and all its local variations. Those delicacies include …Read More »
Sachertorte, the Jewish Masculine Chocolate Cake from Vienna’s Lost Coffeehouse Past: Sigmund Freud’s Beloved Dessert (Recipe) #FranzSacher #CaféSabarsky #Leschanz #Demel
A love-hate relationship with Vienna is not only characteristic for Wittgenstein's nephew but also for the way Sigmund Freud connected …Read More »
The Foodnik’s Good Reads on Sigmund Freud, Vienna’s Cuisine & Jewish Cooking #CookingTherapy
As readers asked me about good books, not only cookbooks, to read about Vienna, I finally came up with a …Read More »
Golden Souffléd Schnitzel, Vienna’s Famous Puffed-Up Golden Calf Cutlet: The Fried Icon and Its Surprising History (Recipe) #WienerSchnitzel
A golden Wiener schnitzel, pronounced sh-nitt-sell, the Vienna cutlet, can be a crisp, light, and tender, heavenly treat served in one …Read More »
Grüner Veltliner Wine: Vienna’s Most Popular White Wine
It's funny to make a post about wine, as a rather moderate drinker. But when I do have a glass, …Read More »
Speedy Old-Vienna No-Knead Bread & Vienna’s Best Bakeries (Recipe) #AltwienerHausbrot
Join me for this ridiculously easy Viennese version of the wildly famous no-knead bread. Indeed, Vienna is not immune to …Read More »
מצותינדדזל (Matzo Island) Installation by Sebestyén Fiumei #Mazzesinsel
The repressed always makes its return – even in Vienna. In March 2015, Ruth Beckermann could albeit only temporarily, correct Austria's "memorial …Read More »
Kosher Salt: Where to Buy & How to Substitute #CookingInVienna
Have you ever tried to follow a recipe that specifically calls for kosher salt? And then you realized you can't find it in …Read More »
Classic Viennese Apple Strudel – The Secrets to Easy, Crispy Wiener Strudel and its Innuendos (recipe & video) #apfelstrudel
Are all strudels wieners? The strudel is a classic Viennese delicacy. In Germany, it's called Wiener Strudel, or "Viennese strudel". …Read More »
Vienna’s Tiramisu & Oedipus: The Making of The Oedipus Complex & The Origin of Italy’s Most Famous Dessert (Recipe) #So1980s #גאָגל-מאָגל
Eating high-calorie delicacies like tiramisu calls for some exercise. My daily walk through Vienna follows one of Sigmund Freud's favorite …Read More »
Quince Poached in Viennese White Wine (Recipe) #QuitteWienerGemischterSatz
Nothing bland about this poached fruit! Cherished and cultivated for its intense floral fragrance since the time of the Akkadians, …Read More »
Jews & Vampires: Homemade Sauerkraut & Vienna’s Garlicky Hungarian Sauerkraut-Sausage Soup inspired by Polanski’s Imaginary Transylvanian Shtetl (Recipe) #Dracula #CulinarySchund
What does a blog about Jewish Viennese food have to do with vampires and an imaginary Transylvanian shtetl? First of …Read More »
Gourmet Hand Matzo Brei: Sweet & Savory with Caramelized Onions, Truffle and Honey (Recipe) #GalitzianerInVienna
Matzo brei, in essence, is nothing but Yiddish for matzo, the unleavened bread, aka the Jewish cracker eaten during Passover, fried …Read More »
Two Peeled Soft-Boiled Eggs in a Glass (with stem): Vienna Coffee-House Virility (Recipe) #EierImGlas
This is THE breakfast classic of Viennese coffeehouses. And yes, most Viennese I've asked admitted to childishly associating this pair of …Read More »
Vienna’s Jelly Doughnuts & Uri Scheft’s Sufganiyot (Recipe) #Krapfen
In recent years champagne-creme-filled and gold-leaf-topped donuts and sufganiyot have been en vogue. Try these wonderfully homey jelly doughnuts for a change. …Read More »

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A History of the World (1981 movie) Breaking Breads Cookbooks Die Ballade vom Wiener Schnitzel Dracula Duck Soup (1933 movie) Encyclopedia of Jewish Food Forverts פֿאָרווערטס Freud's Butcher (blog) Freud's own Cookbook Good Reads Jewish Cooking in America Modernist Cuisine Moses and Monotheism Neue Cuisine - The Elegant Tastes of Vienna Plenty More Rest on the Flight into Egypt (painting) Serious Eats Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes The Book of Jewish Food The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews The Classic Dolci of the Italian Jews The Fearless Vampire Killers The Foods of Israel Today The Great Dictator The Minimalist Wittgenstein's nephew Zahav - A World of Israeli Cooking Zu Tisch bei Sigmund Freud Zuni Café Cookbook

apple strudel ayva tatlisi Backhendl beef stew Berliner boiled beef bomboloni bread breakfast cheese latkes cheesecake chocolate glaze cholent cotogne in giulebbe egg barley Eier im Glas English custard farfel fingers goulash graved-lox gravy Gulasch gulyás hash brown Hausmeisterschnitzel jelly doughnuts Kartoffelpuffer kogel-mogel latke levivot Malakoff Torte mandelbrodt matzo balls matzo brei Oedipus Pie oeuf mollet paprikás plum tart poached beef poached quince pontchikes pörkölt potato kugel potato pancake Rindsuppe roast chicken Rösti Sachertorte sauerkraut schnitzel scrambled eggs soft boiled eggs soldiers strudel tarhonya tart teiglach tiramisu tokány Topfenoberstorte Topfentorte vinaigrette whole grain bread Wiener Saftgulasch Würstel mit Saft גאָגל-מאָגל

blowtorch bread knife cast-iron skillet champagne coupe Champagne saucer dutch oven instant read thermometer Martini glass meat thermometer piping bag stand mixer

basic cooking technique beef stock breaded cartouche dehydrating in the refrigerator dry brining fermentation fried no-knead bread peeling soft boiled eggs poaching ragoût salting early sautée sourdough bread sous-vide speedy no-knead bread stew strudel dough trussing

agar-agar anise seeds apple apricot jam asparagus baking powder beef shank beef shin biskotten black pepper Boskoop Braeburn bread spices breadcrumbs brioche butter Butterkeks (biscuit) cabbage (green) caraway caraway seeds chicken chili chives chocolate cinnamon coffee coriander seeds edible flowers egg eggs espresso farmer cheese farmer's market fennel seeds filo flour garlic gelatine Granny Smith grapefruit grapes hazelnuts honey horseradish instant yeast iodine kabanos Kavalierspitz kolbász kosher salt ladyfingers lemon lemon zest Liebstöckl Maggikraut Luststock lime Lovage lox marjoram mascarpone Matjes herring matzo matzo (matzah) mint nuts olive oil olives onion paprika parasol mushroom phyllo pastry plum pomegranate pork potato puffball mushroom quince raisins rosemary rum salt sausage Schmaltz schmaltz herring Senior Curaçao liqueur smoked salmon sour cream spelt flour Starka vodka sugar table salt Topfen truffle truffle oil turkey vanilla extract veal vinegar Wadschinken walnut walnuts

anti-Semitism Assimilation blessing for good smell blood-libel challah Chanukah Oy Chanukah dairy fiddle Galitzianer gebrokt Gematria golden calf good omen Haman Hanukkah Hassidim Hebrew Jewish rye Judith and Holofernes Kabbalah kimmel Knobel Komemiyut matzo kosher chicken kosher meat Manischewitz Moses North American Jews Passover philo-Semitism Purim Rosh Hashanah schund Seder Shabbat Shabbos Shavuot Siegmund Kornmehl (butcher) Streit's sufganiyot Sukkot Tashlikh winery Hafner Yiddish Yom Kippur Zionism Zohar

Aida (pastry shop) Altwiener Ankerbrot apfelstrudel Austria Austrian Politics Austrian wine Books about Vienna Brathendl butcher Byzantine Empire Café Korb Café Landtmann Café Sabarsky Café Sacher Chardonnay coffee-house Danube river Demel (pastry shop) Erdäpfelpuffer G'spritzter Gemütlichkeit Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald Gespritzter Ghetto Glasscherbeninsel Golden Viennese Heart grocery shopping in Vienna Grüner Veltliner Grüner Veltliner wine Hausbrot Hauszwetschke Heimat Heiner (pastry shop) Heuriger History of Jews in Vienna Hitler Inländer Rum Israel Joseph Brot Kaffeehaus Kahlenberg Kaiser roll Karmelitermarkt Konditorei Krapfen Kristallnacht Kuchen Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Leopoldstadt Mazzesinsel Meissl & Schadn (hotel-restaurant) Memorial against War and Fascism Mischbrot Movies about Vienna nationalism Nazis Neue Synagoge (Leopoldskirche) November 9 1938 Nussberg wine mountain Ödön von Horvath old-Vienna Plachutta (restaurants) Quitte right wing Sacher (hotel-restaurant-café) Schlag Schönbrunn Palace Spritz Spritzer Steirereck restaurant Stroh Rum Strudler Tafelspitz Tales from the Vienna Woods the best Viennese bakeries The Missing Image installation to whine Venice Vienna panoramic view Vienna woods Vienna's smallest vineyard Viennese cuts of beef Viennese field blend wine Viennese vieneyard Viennese wine violin Wien-Wein Wiener Wiener Gemischter Satz Wienerwald wine winery Bründlmayer winery Knoll winery Rotes Haus winery Wailand winery Wieninger Zwetschke

Alice Waters Anna Sacher Berta Zuckerkandl Bruno Kreisky Charles Boer Charlie Chaplin Clara and Gigi Padovani Claudia Roden Edda Servi Machlin Eduard Sacher Franz Joseph (emperor) Franz Sacher Friedrich Torberg George Tabori Gil Marks Giovanni Comisso Heinz Reitbauer Heinz-Dieter Phol Heston Blumenthal Ingrid Haslinger J. Kenji López-Alt James Hillman Jim Lahey Joan Nathan Johannes Theodat Judy Rodgers Katherina Prato Ken Lum Kurt Gutenbrunner Lavie Tidhar Leschanz (the Viennese chocolate king) Marcel Proust Mark Bittman Martha Bernays Martin Parr Marx Brothers Mel Brooks Michael Solomonov Nathan Myhrvold Nigel Slater Nostradamus Orazio Gentileschi Paul Bocuse Paul Gauguin Riza néni Roman Polanski Ruth Beckermann Sandor Katz Sebestyén Fiumei Sigmund Freud Sophia Loren Thomas Bernhard Thomas Keller Uri Scheft Wolfgang Puck Yoko Ono Yotam Ottolenghi

1980s Bacchus breastfeeding cannibalism dunking eat the rich eating with hands fathers cooking feminist food Freudian food gold Hungary Italian food Italy Oedipus Complex orientalism phallic food phallic symbol Proustian madeleine Rufus T. Firefly slow food Transylvania Treviso unconscious urban vineyards Vampires vegan vegetarian Virgo Lactans Ying-Yang

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