Cooking Up Some Good Times
Pam and I spent four years living in the rural Bavarian countryside of Germany. She was working as a test director at a civilian aircraft maintenance facility just outside Ingolstadt, home of the Audi automobile plant. Bavaria was an amazing place to live. Great food, wonderful people, and a short drive to many wonderful areas. During our time in Germany we traveled extensively, driving the old, used Audi Coupe we bought into the ground. It’s a sad thing when the tow truck drivers at the German equivalent of AAA know you on a first-name basis… At the time I was writing an online wine and food column called Jim’s Kitchen for CompuServe’s Wine Forum. I focused in on pairing wine and food, and wrote about the various successes and failures. One year we decided to gather up some of our favorite recipes and interweave them with stories of some of our experiences. The end result: Unsere Vier Jahreszeiten in Deutchland , or, Our Four Years in Germany. The book went out to family and fr