Do you ever think about how or why certain foods were ever created? Like what caused someone to put sauce and cheese on top of bread and throw it in the oven? Who was the first to decide to throw pretzels into chocolate? We often eat things day to day and don't really look behind the history as to why we even eat the foods we do or how they were even started.
In light of our journey to Germany, our group of four had the opportunity to do just that. But instead of researching an everyday American dish, we got to dig into an interesting dish that is based out of Germany. Berlin, Germany specifically is the most historically confirmed place of the invention of currywurst. Currywurst = curry + wurst (sausage) + ketchup + assortment of spices.
Most places offer a side of fries with the sauced up sausage, and most always give you your fair share of the currywurst sauce.
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| Currywurst with a side of fries from Berlin's Curry 36 Photo by: A. Shuler |
By any means, today we made our way to one of the locals favorite places in Berlin called Curry 36 and got to speak with Mirko Grossman, son-in-law to owner of Curry 36.
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| Mirko Grossmann showing our crew inside the kitchen of Curry 36 Photo by: A Shuler http://www.curry36.de/ |
If you don't believe me on how popular currywurst is here, well did you know they have their own currywurst museum? It is called the Deutsches Currywurst Museum Berlin; we had the opportunity to go there as well!
Between the sausage shaped couch and an entire room full of the possible spices included in a currywurst dish, the museum sealed any unanswered questions we had about the creation of this dish.
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| Connor, Amelia and Sam sit on the sausage couch. Photo by: S. Murphy |
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