FIKA: OKTOBER EDITION

Germans have a daily kaffee and kuchen tradition, and I don’t see why that can’t be reason enough to dedicate this whole post to German things. They clearly know things. 

Also it’s the month of Oktoberfest so I’ll include beer. However, on further research on the history of Oktoberfest, I found it had so little to do with beer, and much more to do with weddings and horse racing that I almost didn’t mention it at all. But then I remembered one of the convenient things about writing a semi-informative blog is you can edit history to suit your purposes as much as you like, so Oktoberfest stays and we’re including beer. Maybe don a Bavarian hat with Gamsbart just to keep the truth police satisfied.

EAT

For the kuchen, try this kuchen.

For the beer, have you thought of adding cheese and dipping a pretzel in it? No? I haven’t till now and I’m sorrier for it. But now I know, and you know, and will forever have beer and cheese dip in our lives.

DRINK

Tea, obviously.*

Ha! What a good joke. We’ll be drinking beer this Oktober edition. We’re pretty hoppy that we’re nestled snug as a bug among Sydney’s top breweries, and we’ll be hopping all around our streets this Oktober. And look what I found! A very handy Inner West Ale Trail map! Very akin to the Marauder’s Map if you like butter beer and mischief. 

WATCH

Germany has an exceptional cinema scene, and has produced some of the greatest films I’ve ever seen. Check out The Lives of Others, Goodbye, Lenin, and Run Lola Run  for a night in with your bier and pretzels, or gluhwein and chocolate cake.

READ

There’s Perfume, is a classic thriller of aromatics and murder, or there’s  the 13 ½ Lives Of Captain Bluebear, a fantastical, bizzaro tale of adventure and mischief of Captain Bluebear and the first half of his 27 lives in the land of Zamamia, ‘​a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together, turned on its head, and lavishly illustrated by the author’ If ever there was a book written expressly for me, this is it. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you enjoy absurdity. 

 

*Please no hate mail, tea was just a pawn to serve the mechanics of the joke and has no bearing on our actual affections for tea. We love tea.