Word: apfelstrudel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pleasures of Cookery. Leo's fraternal rancor against Gertrude is rarely expressed, and then only indirectly, as when he recalls that when they were children "everything Gertrude tried to cook turned out badly, but I made bread and apfelstrudel-which is very difficult. . . ." But he declares that Gertrude didn't take up Picasso until Picasso had gone wrong, i.e., cubist. Leo's case against cubism is cogently argued...
...walked into the Café Vaterland. Its menu was as ample and German as the Fräulein who handled it. I ordered, in English, beer and Apfelstrudel, and asked for the local daily newspaper. I got the Deutscher Beobachter, with a curt 'Bitte.' Near by, three American karakul-pelt buyers were deep in wartime prices. They spoke English. Everyone else in the room spoke German. On the wall a German poster announced a UFA film, Wenn der Hahn kräht. All around were pictures of Germany...
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