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?? If you re planning a weekend break in Vienna, here s some advice: leave the diet sheet and the calorie calculator at home. The lure of the Viennese
Kaffee Hausen will rob you of all your self control when confronted by the vast
array of cakes and pastries that are an essential ingredient in this traditional
Austrian experience. Forget Starbucks, and any other coffee chain you might have
frequented in the past...this is a totally different ball game.
The Turks are credited with bringing coffee to Vienna in the latter part of the 17th
century. The Turkish army had invaded Austria and when they were forced to
leave, in somewhat of a hurry, they left behind several sacks of coffee beans.
The Viennese decided to try coffee for themselves and have been hooked ever
since.
By the beginning of the 20th century there were over 500 coffee houses in the city Kiko Alonso Dolphins Jersey , offering not just coffee and cakes, but newspapers, chess boards, and in some cases, billiard tables. They were also
renowned as gathering places for the literati, as well as Viennese business men.
Sadly, in the last 20 years dozens have closed, and some of these prime sites
are now occupied by international coffee chains and fast food outlets
.
But the brightest and the best are still holding on,and no visit to Vienna would be complete without stopping of at one of them for a coffee and
cake pit stop in between the sightseeing. Many of them still provide newspapers,
and once seated there is no pressure to drink up and move on. The Viennese
believe that coffee drinking is a social event, so friends meet and gossip in a
leisurely manner.
Having selected your coffee house, and found a seat, preferably in the window if you can manage it,you will be confronted by a long
list of coffees, and an even longer list of waistband stretching pastries. Don t
think you can get away with ordering just a coffee . This will mark you out as
an amateur. There will, in all probability, be at least a dozen varieties on
offer, and you ll be expected to make a considered decision and order
appropriately. So here s a few you will find on the average menu...there will be
loads more, but let s not get complicated at this stage.
Schwarzer ?Strong black coffee like an espresso.
Kleiner(small) or Grosser(large) Brauner ?coffee with cream
Kapuziner ?coffee with a dash of milk
Melang ?coffee with frothy milk similar to a cappuccino
Einspanner ?mocha coffee with whipped cream
Fiaker ?mocha coffee with brandy...a must have if you re in Vienna on a cold winter s day.
Then there s the cakes and pastries to be ordered. After all Byron Maxwell Dolphins Jersey , such delicious coffee must be accompanied by something, and the sweeter and more calorific the better. More sight seeing
will soon burn the calories off.
The mention of the word Austria conjures up images of mountains, Mozart , and sacher torte, that most Viennese of
confections invented by Fritz Sacher when he was apprenticed to the court of
Prince Metternich at the beginning of the 19th century. There is only one place
to eat it in its spiritual home, the Cafe Sacher in Philharmoniker Strasse. Try
to get a seat in the conservatory which faces the Opera House, order a
Einspanner coffee to go with it, and sit and watch the world go by. Sacher torte
is even better when served with a dollop of cream, but that might be considered
to be going into dairy overload. But the Cafe Sacher is such a special place
that a little over indulgence can be forgiven.
Other varieties of torte are on offer, as they are in all Viennese coffee houses. Why not try marontorte
which is similar to sacher torte but filled with chestnut puree?
Or linzer torte, another mouth watering Austrian speciality? It is reputedly the
oldest tart in the world, having been first recorded in 1653, and is a
deliciously light confection comprising two layers of buttery almond pastry
filled with plum or raspberry jam. Apelstrudel is another popular favourite,
butter light paper thin pastry layers filled with apples and dried fruit. And,
according to Rodgers and Hammerstein, one of Maria Von Trapp
