Word: franconian
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...dead of winter. The result is a wine with an intense flavor--sweet, like Sauternes, but tangy. "I love these wines," says Andrea Immer, author of Great Tastes Made Simple. "They're a spark plug for the mouth." Ice wines originated in the 1790s when workers in the Franconian region of Germany tried to salvage grapes frozen in an early frost. One of the newest producers is Canada, whose nippy Niagara Peninsula provides the perfect microclimate for growing--and freezing--ice wine's Riesling, Vidal and Seyval grapes. Canadian production of ice wine has skyrocketed from 96,000 bottles...
...penetrating productions of the 1950s and '60s. In 1976 French Enfant Terrible Patrice Chereau booted it out the door entirely with a conception that updated the story to the Industrial Revolution and nascent Marxism. Now comes Kupfer, with a daring viewpoint that is as Teutonic as Wolfgang's thick Franconian accent...
...rolling Franconian countryside, near the point where West Germany, East Germany and Czechoslovakia meet, a U.S. Army helicopter is giving a brisk guided tour of the frontier. The helicopter cruises parallel to the ugly belt of East German barbed wire and minefields, staying about 100 yds. to the safe side. Occasionally the pilot banks sharply to avoid stray "peninsulas" of East German territory jutting out from the fencing. "You have to know this border by heart," says the pilot. "You could get yourself shot at." His passengers are appreciative. "We call those places 'Gotchas,' " he adds pleasantly. Back...
Erhard's instincts were molded in the easy atmosphere of Southern Germany's pre-World War I petite bourgeoisie. He was born (1897) in Fiirth, the quiet Franconian town that today is virtually a suburb of spreading Niirnberg. Son of a retail cloth merchant, he assumed from early age that he would follow his father in the family business: "I had no doubt about the adequacy of the firm social order about me." That social order collapsed with World War I. Serving in the artillery, Corporal Erhard was severely wounded during the murderous battle of Ypres. After seven...
...Rate Tours. Schickedanz was running a small wholesale textile house in the Franconian city of Fürth when he first decided, in the 1920s, to send a list of goods directly to housewives. The idea worked so well that he expanded his line, was flooded by desperate bargain seekers when the Depression began. Bombed out during World War II, Quelle (meaning Source) reopened in 1948, built back its business by selling simple, basic goods to refugees. But it was not until the early '50s, when a prosperous Europe created its own mass market, that Schickedanz borrowed proven...