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  • So, to paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, "If you are blonde, blue-eyed, and look like you like beer, bread, and kartoffeln, and you are from Cincinnati, then you might be German."

    "They All Seem So Nice...." 2009

  • At his Ma Restaurant in Berlin's famed Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Mr. Raue has banished starch altogether -- no brot (bread), no nudeln (noodles), no kartoffeln (German potato wedges).

    What's Next: Haute Cuisine Craig Winneker 2010

  • At his Ma Restaurant in Berlin's famed Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Mr. Raue has banished starch altogether -- no brot (bread), no nudeln (noodles), no kartoffeln (German potato wedges).

    What's Next: Haute Cuisine Craig Winneker 2010

  • _gurken-kartoffeln_ they form a pyramid with the apex downwards, and in another variety they bury themselves deep in the ground.

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

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