It’s no secret that Europe is a very small continent, especially when compared to places like Russia, US, Australia or Brazil…If I drive out of Frankfurt right now I will be in France in 2 hours, a 3 hour drive would get me to Belgium, Switzerland or the Czech Republic…It’s almost ridiculous. So when I tell people that I need to take a 3 and a half hour flight to get from São Paulo to my hometown, they find it hard to believe it. If I got on a plane for 3 and a half hours from Frankfurt, I would be in another continent. The interesting thing though is that even though everything is relatively close by each country has very distinct cultural and food traditions. Whilst here in Germany the traditional food is a bit “primitive” with things like pig trotters and sausage, big portions of it with very little extra added. Next door, in France food is a tad more refined. I find this all very interesting. And then Mariana has the wonderful idea to do a culinary foreign exchange. So every so often she will send me a typical English ingredient and I will send her German