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Article: Pickled Pork Delights the Palatine; German Chancellor Scores Gargantuan Success With Cookbook
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- The Washington Post
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- February 4, 1996
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One glance at Helmut Kohl's waistline confirms that the
German chancellor never met a Wiener schnitzel he didn't like. Or
eat. Although Kohl has declared his exact weight to be "a state
secret," chancellor watchers estimate he crushes the scales at 275
pounds.
So who better than the colossus of Bonn to write the
definitive guide to German regional cooking? Published last month,
"Culinary Travels Through Germany" is a cardiologist's nightmare of
beer dumplings, pickled pork knuckles and pig's neck on a bed of
leeks.
Prominent among the 350 recipes is Kohl's beloved Saumagen --
Palatine sow's stomach -- which he routinely inflicts on visiting
statesmen at his home on the Rhine River ...