Austrian cuisine

Austrian cuisine is the cooking style in the tradition of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. It combined Austrian, Hungarian, Czech, Italian and Jewish styles of cooking and it integrates a lot of regional Austrian products and recipes. Austrian cuisine is also well known for its sweets, called Mehlspeisen.

Some famous Austrian food and specialties include:

• Apfelstrudel (a kind of apple desert)
• Topfenstrudel (a cream cheese strudel)
• Danish pastry
• Wiener schnitzel
• Sacher torte (a chocolate cake)
• Tafelspitz (cooked beef)
• Kürbiskernöl (pumpkinseed oil)
• Grüner Veltliner (white wine)
• Schilcher (wine)