Category Archives: holidays

Freising Foto Freitag

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Local musicians performing Advent music, 2018. About four-thirty in the afternoon on a sunny day. I’ll be dipping into my sizeable trove of photos I failed to share in a timely manner, to keep Freising Foto Freitag going through our hard lockdown. (Finally sloth pays off!) Leaving your home for… Read more »

Freising Foto Freitag

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The Weihnachtsmann (*not* Santa Claus) climbing into your window to (hopefully) leave you presents was more popular ten years ago, but I still see a few around town this year.

Thanksgiving 2020

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People often ask if I make the usual foods for Thanksgiving. I don’t. 1) It’s a normal weekday here; and 2) the friends and family we would invite to dinner would decline most of the traditional menu–including the bird–for personal dietary reasons. I prefer to make simple meals for just… Read more »

Tour de Krapfen 2020

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Krapfenzeit. Simply put, a Krapfen is a deep-fried ball of yeast dough with a fruit or cream filling. In other regions they may be called Berliner, Pfannkuchen, or Ballen, but in Bavaria and Austria they are Krapfen (I have also seen “Grapfen”… Read more »