Food and Drink
Bavarian cuisine today is highly varied. Alongside a broad range of
international dishes there are many traditional specialities from
the various Bavarian regions: beer, Franconian wine, Weisswurst and
luncheon meat, fried sausages, pork roast, dumplings, cheese
noodles, and numerous potato and flour dishes.
The typical Bratwurst sausage from Franconia is cooked over a fire.
In Upper Bavaria people prefer Weisswurst sausage or Leberkäse
(luncheon meat), both of which are traditionally eaten with sweet
mustard and pretzels. Mountain cheese is a speciality of the high
Alpine pastures - and Nuremberg's spicy cakes known as Lebkuchen are
a particularly sweet delicacy.
Foreign specialities from Italy, Greece and China enrich the range
on offer, and Turkish kebab stands in the streets have long been a
fixture.