The Goethe-Institut’s #180sec short video series, which explores different cities around the world, visits Leipzig, where a group of people are actively involved in a cooperative community garden. Not only do vegetables grow here at Annalinde, but friendships as well.

In this video, we see what the city of Innsbruck in the region of Tyrol in Austria has to offer.

In the second part of this video, we get to see the mountains adjacent to Innsbruck, which offer an abundance of skiing only 30 minutes from the city center.

Join Marko for dinner as he enjoys potato soup, Swabian Maultaschen, and a good beer at restaurant in Berlin.

Learn how to bake a delicious and simple apple cake with Eva, and learn German while doing so... Have fun!

Alina and Sabine show us how to make apple pancakes — German style!

If you like pasta, then this recipe is for you! Christiane demonstrates how to make Bavarian spaetzle, which is a type of egg pasta and very easy to prepare! Have fun!

This video may seem to be directed purely at meat eaters, Kopps Restaurant and Grill takes it all the way to vegan! Secret tip: even Hamburger Heaven on Graefestr. in Berlin-Kreuzberg has delicious veggie burgers in addition to their free-range and organic beef. Guten Appetit! (video copyright dpa)

After the scandal about horse meat in European restaurants, there was a new scandal about dioxin-contaminated eggs. This video shows you how the labeling on EU-produced eggs works. Or is supposed to work, presuming the codes haven't been forged. I wish that I could wish you a guten Appetit!

Cettina and Sara talk about Baden-Württemberg, a federal state in the south of Germany that has a number of defining geographical features and cultural hallmarks.