Authentic German Home Style Recipes Paperback – April 1, 1994

I am originally from the Heidelberg area and have lived in the US for many, many years now. Over the years, I've missed some of my German grandma's home-style cooking, so I bought this cookbook several years ago and still love cooking with it today. As a matter of fact, there's not a page I haven't written on or highlighted the extra-special recipes.As I first flipped through the pages, not only was I thrilled with the everyday recipes, which are well known in the Heidelberg area, the ones I grew up with, but the author even goes a step further by describing holiday traditions and German customs, stuff I had almost forgotten about over the years.Another big plus is that it was written in English with American ingredients and measurements, so I bought this book for my daughter when she went off to college, my mother-in-law, and other friends who've been to Germany and missed the food.My version was comb bound, so it stays open flat on the counter when I'm cooking with it. It's so much more efficient than having to hold the page down with a can of sauerkraut to keep the pages from turning, as I have to with bound cookbooks. I don't know if that has changed, though.About the not so favorable reviews, this is meant to be a practical book for everyday German cooking. Not every recipe is supposed to be gourmet, so when a can of peas and carrots is listed as an ingredient, that's how I grew up eating it. Just like in the States, we use short-cuts in Germany, too. As a matter of fact, yes, the real thing is nice, but I still get a feeling of nostalgia, when I eat canned peas and carrots as a side or alone, topped with butter and sprinkled with some salt and pepper. JUST LIKE IT WAS AT HOME! Can't get more authentic than that!!!

My grandmother born in 1904 and the best german cook told my aunt many years ago that this was the book to get. Enough said.

I bought this book in 2003 and I still use it to this day. I am from Germany and live in the US now. The recipes here are basic recipes that you would find in regular households. I also have other german cookbooks with the more complicated stuff. Regular german households don't go making Schnitzel or Sauerbraten every day.The bolognese recipe is still one of my favorites which I fiddled with just a tad. The goulash soup, also great. All the soups are great and I also love the cookie recipes.I love making the noodle chicken salad with the yogurt. I have no way of getting Quark here in the US so the recipes are adjusted to items I can easy get here in the US. Its very good.

This book doesn't pretend to be a German cookbook. Note the word "Style" in the title. It is, how ever, a fun book to read and contains really nice recipes from my childhood and my time stationed in Germany. A good purchase.

Awesome Book that is now out of print. I bought one years ago at a German Deli in CHicago. There were so many receipes here that were similiar if not identicle to my mothers that my brother wanted it. There are many receipes for the comfort food that i remember as a child. I was very happy to find it here on Amazon. It was a great gift for him. The book has many German saying at the end of each page with the translations so it was a fun trip down memory lane.

Very comprehensive German food recipes. Author did extensive research and provided easy to follow recipes.

Excellent cookbook. This one replaced one I gave to my daughter. That was an earlier addition without bread recipes. This is a fine cookbook for the basic cook.

Great intro to German cooking.