So, I moved to Berlin in late August last year and I’m really beginning to feel at home in this amazingly vivid city. Berlin is very unique for Germany and even for the whole european continent. There are a lot of little shops, where you can buy unique and often handcrafted stuff designed and made by artists/designers/people living in Berlin.

Food wise, there is one real local classic: The “Currywurst”, which is basically a fried pork sausage in a sauce with a close resemblance to Ketchup, enhanced with curry and other spices. In most cases it is served with fries and it used to be the most common street food until people started to eat doner kebap a lot.

Berlin is so obsessed with its currywurst, that there is a museum devoted to the currywurst and every candidate for Berlin mayor get’s photographed next to a currywurst stand.

Some History: Herta Heuwer invented the currywurst in 1949, at least that’s what most people believe. The city even honored her with a plaque on the corner of Kant and Kaiser Friedrich Streets, in Berlin where she first cooked and sold the dish to (mostly) working class people.