Food and Travels

I was cleaning my desk this afternoon, and I happened across a few scraps of paper lying around with notes scribbled on them.

One was from my last trip to Austria, where I had a memorable meal of Bauernbratl mit saurkraut und semmelknodel. That was something. Knodel is a dumpling, and semmelknodel is like a bread dumpling. Very nice.

The other is a well-worn scrap of paper that hung out in my money clip for a couple of weeks. My family and I were in Providencetown, MA one rainy August day when we ducked inside a Portugese bakery and almost by accident discovered these wonderful pastries called malassada. They were cheap, and looked like they'd go well with a cup of coffee. We were right. Marvelous.