Featured Recipe - fresh fruit tart

Fresh fruit tart

With the warm weather upon us, Chef Michael of Food-Travels.com shows you how to make a simple yet beautiful summer dessert to impress your friends and family at the next party. These fresh fruit tarts are common in European bakeries, where they're traditionally enjoyed for breakfast with a cappuccino or with coffee later in the day. Painted with gelatin, they take a prominent position in window display cases in cafés as well.



Cooking Spargel

In connection with this week’s feature article, our featured recipe is for Spargel, or white asparagus, one of the most prized vegetables in Germany.



Chicken in puff pastry

This is a perfect summer garden party appetizer that you can prepare ahead of time and all of your friends will be asking for the recipe! Preparing the puff pastry takes a little time, although it is well worth the effort. Puff pastry can be used with savory or sweet fillings and is especially common in French cooking.



Chocolate Ricotta Pie

An authentic, traditional Ricotta pie typical of the Abruzzo region in central Italy. Ricotta pie is best made with fresh ricotta, and this recipe includes a custard.



Chocolate mousse

It’s probably safe to say that most Food-Travels.com readers have enjoyed chocolate mousse. The ideal mousse should be so rich, yet so airy and light that it melts in your mouth. The following recipe is one that Food-Travels.com Chefs use in their professional as well as home kitchens. A word of caution - be sure to have some friends around when you prepare it because you could easily eat too much before realizing what happened!



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Shopping for fish in Sicily's old Pescheria

Pescheria (cc) Dario Dado

"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything," wrote the German poet Goethe while traveling to the island. Sicily is one of Italy’s most vibrant, diverse and complex regions. If you do visit you won’t want to miss the ancient...


Poland's wildflower and forest honey

Dutkowiak bees, (c) dutkowiak.pl

Poland remains one of the most geographically diverse nations in Europe. The Beskids mountain ranges are home to fauna found nowhere else and vast meadows of wild flowers and herbs have been used for centuries in holistic medicine. Much of Polish countryside remains untouched by modern industry...


Oberfranken's brewery culture

Hops, Bayerischer Brauerbund e. V

It’s nearly impossible to imagine Switzerland not producing fine chocolates, Italy Chianti or France Camembert. Yet with increasing mass production, these traditional products are being threatened. This is especially true with beer - that beverage synonymous with Germany’s Oktoberfest and outdoor...


Featured Recipe - fresh fruit tart

Fresh fruit tart

With the warm weather upon us, Chef Michael of Food-Travels.com shows you how to make a simple yet beautiful summer dessert to impress your friends and family at the next party. These fresh fruit tarts are common in European bakeries, where they're traditionally enjoyed for breakfast with a...