Hearts, minds & stomachs

Here is what home tastes like: apricot jam and sweet Austrian butter on dark, dark, dark caraway-sunflower rye. Bilberries. Parsley. Fresh Mohnweckerl. Fresh Apfelstrudel. Zuckerschnecke. Parsley, raw and green and crisp. Ground walnuts. Motzah. Soured cream. Lovage. Alpine strawberries.

German feels different in my mouth as well: comforting, reassuring.

I don't understand how people who've never cried over Schwarzbrot - who've never stood forlorn & bereft by the spices in a supermarket, because Liebstoeck isn't there - can look at me & listen to me and say: yes, more than anything else - you are English.