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Currywurst museum coming to Berlin

The Currywurst – Germany’s answer to the hotdog – will soon receive the acknowledgement it deserves after a museum dedicated to the sausage treat opens in Berlin this summer.

Currywurst museum coming to Berlin
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For sixty years it’s been a fixture at snack bars across Germany – a grilled sausage sliced and slathered with a spicy ketchup sauce.

Supposedly invented by Herta Heuwer in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district in 1949, the Currywurst has since been loved by millions of Germans from all walks of life. It’s allegedly even the favourite meal of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

Now this sublime culinary creation will get its own pantheon in the form of a museum-cum-Currywurst shop in the German capital near Checkpoint Charlie this August.

“The Currywurst is much more than simply a huge economic factor in Germany,” Katja Rümenapf, the museum project’s spokeswoman told The Local on Wednesday. “We’ll have over 1,000 square metres for the exhibition, a shop and a Currywurst lounge.”

Despite plenty of fast-food competition in the form of hamburgers and kebabs in recent decades, Germans continue to consume loads of curried sausages on any given day. Snack shops are even offering a modern take on the classic with organic and gourmet Currywurst.

Perhaps that’s what encouraged the project’s organisers to raise €5 million for the museum. But Rümenapf was diplomatic in addressing the ongoing dispute between Berlin and Hamburg – which also claims to be the birthplace of the tasty Teutonic snack.

“Of course we’ll deal with the whole issue of the Currywurst’s importance beyond Berlin’s borders,” she said. “And that includes Hamburg too.”

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Danish chef wants to launch gourmet dining to stratosphere

Danish chef Rasmus Munk wants to take high-end cuisine to the edge of space, with plans to serve up a stratospheric dining experience in 2025, his restaurant said Thursday.

Danish chef wants to launch gourmet dining to stratosphere

“The expedition will take place aboard Space Perspective Spaceship Neptune, the world’s first carbon-neutral spaceship,” Alchemist, the Copenhagen restaurant that has earned Munk two Michelin stars, said in a statement.

“They will dine as they watch the sunrise over the Earth’s curvature” at an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,000 metres) above sea level, it said.

For $495,000 per ticket, six tourists will embark on a six-hour journey in a pressurised space capsule that will rise into the stratosphere in a hydrogen-filled “SpaceBalloon”.

The 32-year-old chef and self-confessed space enthusiast will be joining the trip.

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Munk promises “dishes inspired by the role of space exploration during the last 60 years of human history, and the impact it has had on our society — both scientifically and philosophically”.

His menu will be restricted only by his inability to cook food over an open flame.

Many of the ingredients will be prepared on the ship from which the capsule is launched, according to Alchemist, which is ranked fifth among the world’s restaurants in 2023 according to the World’s Best 50 Restaurants guide.

In recent decades, Denmark has emerged as a gastronomical powerhouse on terra firma, with the Copenhagen restaurants Noma and Geranium both having held the title of the world’s best restaurant.

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