JULIA TURSHEN’S AFTERNOON LEMON CAKE

The Polish cuisine may be an obscure entry on the list of European culinary schools (at least when you ask some Americans about it). But despite this lack of name recognition, the dishes that this Eastern European nation had developed in the last millennia or so are damn tasty! But just like with any other given national cuisine, let’s first…

If there’s one thing that Austria is worldwide famous for (besides the dictators who were born there), that thing must be found in the culinary realm and it definitely is the renown Wiener Schnitzel.

Cooked with veal cutlets, some Parmesan cheese, parsley, eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and milk… So to start with the recipe itself, let’s start the cooking by melting the butter on a medium heat in the oven. Then we shall take the veal and…

While you might think that when the question is “what Belgium is famous for” in the context of cuisine and food, that the only correct answer is the waffles…

But in reality, if you’ve ever been to Benelux (which is a region packed with the neighboring trio of countries – the Netherlands, Belgium and a small Luxembourg), then you must have found out that the waffles are a thing in the Netherlands, not Belgium. Still, Belgium has a dish of its own to be proud of – the moules…