Austrian cuisine
Austrian cuisine is the cooking style in the tradition of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. It combined Austrian, Hungarian, Czech, Italian and Jewish styles of cooking and it integrates a lot of regional Austrian products and recipes. Austrian cuisine is also well known for its sweets, called Mehlspeisen.Some famous Austrian food and specialties include:
- Apfelstrudel (a kind of apple desert)
- Topfenstrudel (a cream cheese strudel)
- Danish pastry
- Wiener schnitzel
- Sacher torte (a chocolate cake)
- Tafelspitz (cooked beef)
- Kürbiskernöl (pumpkinseed oil)
- Grüner Veltliner (white wine)
- Schilcher (wine)
- Gulasch (different hot pots, somewhat similar to hungarian Pörkölt)