Germany’s States and Regional Food Specialties

…home to a quarter of all the Michelin rated restaurants in Germany

Bavaria

…North and South have different language patterns, dialects, attitudes and foods

Berlin

…Germany’s capital city, known for lively arts and nightlife, and modern lifestyle

Brandenburg

…’Prussia’s vegetable garden’, replete with castles, nature preserves, and the asparagus road

Bremen

…Hanseatic port rich with Grimm’s fairytales, coffee roasters, beer, chocolates

Hamburg

…Hanseatic port, surrounded by apple orchards and organic farms

Hesse

…Weinfests, Rhine Hesse wines, apple cider, mineral water

Lower Saxony

…from the Dutch border to Lunenberg Heath and the North Sea Islands

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

…a major industrial area, it’s also a prominent agricultural state

North Rhine Westphalia

…a major industrial region, it’s also a prominent agricultural region, especially in the north

Rhineland Palatinate

…two thirds of the wine produced in Germany come from this region

Saarland

…coal mining region bordering the Alsatian region of France

Saxony

…Dresden and Leipzig, ‘Land of Christmas’, ‘Florence on the Elbe’

Saxony Anhalt

…birthplace of Martin Luther and the Bauhaus — think Harz mountain witches in the north and the Saar wine region in the South

Schleswig-Holstein

…rich in produce from land and sea, international trading brought almonds for marzipan

Thuringia

…the spectacular landscapes of the ‘green heart of Germany’ were home to Luther, Bach, Goethe and Schiller