I got to bake cookies for my Germany Course yesterday evening. Our teacher told us to translate a traditional recipe out of each of our own countries into Germany and then bring it to class for the others to try. This excercise seems fairly dull until you consider thatour class consisted of natural born cities from Brazil, France, Spain, Greece, Italy, Thailand, China, and Korea. That truly was a prominant culture lesson. The Italian guy in our class discovered Nusspli (similar to Nutella, but made directly in Aachen) The French guy had brought it along to spread on the crepes that he had made. However, Paulo, the Italian, felt the need to put it on everything. Including the quark filled omlet things that one of the Spanish ladies brought and the chocolate chip cookies that I
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