Tag Archives: Pastry

Don’t Throw Them

Stuck in meetings Tuesday and not able to finish today’s planned post. Given the season, I thought it reasonable to re-post this piece from 2016. I never sampled these round pastries that the Germans call snowballs. I’m not much into sweet stuff, and I had never heard of these things before. It seems though that […]

Snowballs!

No snow in my area of Germany. Also no snowballs, as these pastries are known. I don’t know if there is a more formal name. I discovered them in Rothenburg almost a decade ago. Don’t ask me what they taste like – I didn’t try one. My wife did, and as I recall she wasn’t […]