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The Cooking of Vienna's Empire (Foods of the World)
The Cooking of Vienna's Empire - Foods of the World Author:Joseph Wechsbert & the Editors of Time-Life Books Chapter 1 - In the Days of the Old Empire — "Half a century ago Austria and Hungary still formed the core of an empire that had lasted more than 600 years--from 1282 until 1918. At one time the Habsburg Empire reached from the borders of Czarist Russia to the shores of the Adriatic Sea, and consisted of more than a dozen nationalities with over 5... more »1 million people speaking 16 different languages. ... Vienna is no longer the capital of an empire--but her cooking rules where her political diplomacy failed. ... "« less