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Things to Eat in Vienna: the Stelze (pork knuckle) edition

This guide on things to eat in Vienna is definitely for the carnivores out there. As I continue in my vain attempt to lure people away from ubiquitous schnitzels, literally boring the vegetables off restaurant plates across Vienna, I now offer up another alternative: known locally as a ‘Stelze‘, English speakers would call it a Vienna pork knuckle. Yes...

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Food in Austria (or how not to order Schnitzel)

Food in Austria - A Local's Guide to Avoiding Schnitzel The food in Austria isn’t the main reason why people come here. At the risk of being deported, compared with other national cuisines, Austrian food is really rather boring, samey, and extremely meat and potato dominant. Now to some, this may sound great, as it did to me when I first arrived here, but after...