“Whesskey,” the Hessian whisky from the Höhler Distillery, is something very special. This small family business produces its highly-prized beverage only in small batches. Music fans note: the background tune is the “Alabama Song,” composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, and performed by the Doors. Zum Wohl!

The German NGO Welthungerhilfe presents a campaign at a train station in Berlin to mark the 2011 global hunger index.

Wine is much more than an alcoholic beverage. For connoisseurs, wine can also be an investment, since some wines can become more valuable with time. The wines are in good hands in Germany's only Winebank! Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Diane and her little helpers, Ivana, Sabine and Alina, get into the Christmas spirit and bake cookies...

Watch this second segment of Diane and her three little helpers baking Christmas cookies. Enjoy!

Come and join Eva at the Christmas market on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt! She samples some of the seasonal delicacies, as well as the ever-popular mulled wine.

A German Christmas is also about the food and the sweets! Eva shows us what she likes to eat for a traditional dinner on Christmas Eve as well as her favorite Christmas pastry...

A shop in Munich offers some unusual and very Bavarian types of ice cream.
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Sarah shows us around Karlsruhe's "Christkindlesmarkt" Christmas Market, which has three areas. She stops at various stands to buy a gingerbread heart, a mulled wine, and some alcohol-free children's punch.

Sarah continues exploring the Christmas market in Karlsruhe. She visits the talking "fairy tale boxes," the ice skating rink, and a stand where they make crêpes with Nutella!

In this episode of "Cettina on the Go," Cettina takes us out to eat and introduces vocabulary pertaining to restaurant jobs, drinks, food, and good table manners.

Eva prepares her Berlin apartment for a dinner party and demonstrates vocabulary related to setting the table.

Could eating less help us look younger, and more importantly, could it help us live longer? A few studies seem to show that this could be the case, but there are no conclusive results yet.

Although it might help with fighting age-related diseases in the future, research into calorie restriction and aging is not so far along – or free of contradictions – that we should factor it into our dietary choices.

All-day schools are required to provide meals for their students. However, one frequently hears complaints of bland food of poor quality. Now, star chef Johann Lafer wants to change all of this with a project of his own. Nationwide the project is one of a kind. Learn more about it at food@ucation. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Walter Günther is a throwback from a by-gone day! This Frankfurt tinkerer/inventor gives us a glimpse of his 19th century metal workshop. Take a look for yourself and see, for example, a completely automated grill that browns sausages evenly and his whimsical "Schaumkusswurfmaschine". [lit. "foam-kiss throwing machine"] Viel Spaß wünsche ich euch dabei!

Sallys Cake World: a delicious recipe for a healthy, fruity, and vegetarian pumpkin soup. Guten Appetit!

A touch of Twin Peaks in Mannheim: Sally of Sally's Cake World fame visits the children in the University of Mannheim's clinic with doughnuts from Star Donuts Mannheim and speaks with a radio DJ from Radio Rumms.

Sally's Cake World: A delicious, moist apple cake with a fine aroma of lemon and cinnamon, and bits of marzipan in the dough!

Sally shows us today how to bake an apple cake with optional marzipan... yum! Guten Appetit beim Deutschlernen!

Sally's Cake World: A delicious, moist apple cake with a fine aroma of lemon and cinnamon, and bits of marzipan in the dough!

Promoting mulled wine this winter, Sabine Braunert has been named the German Mulled Wine Queen. From November 27th, she will be raising the glass of mulled wine in her new official capacity. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

After a mild winter, the asparagus season is four weeks earlier than usual this year. Minister of Agriculture Priska Hinz and asparagus queen Sabrina I. take this opportunity to tell us about this delicious vegetable! By the way, if you have never tasted fresh white asparagus before, it is out of this world. Guten Appetit!

The Wiens, a young dairy farming couple from Burgholzhausen, are building their business around healthy living. And to market the goods, they've come up with a unique idea: a milk filling station.