The Feast For The Famous Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is perhaps the most famous and most highly respected Austrian of all era. This musical pro was born in Salzburg in 1756 and today, two hundred and fifty years later, Austria is celebrating the life and pieces of Mozart with a year-long party. So, if you are a cultural art aficionado like myself, this is definitely the year to holiday in Austria!

My day visit, of course, basically included a first-hand view of the one thousand square-meter huge Mozarthaus Vienna.

Dom Gasse No. 5 is the address of the only surviving Mozart residence, although the Austrian wonder lived in various parts all-around Vienna. The master composer was known to
have lived in this place between 1784 and 1787 in grand style, although in many ways, the apartment is quite a typical home, featuring 4 large rooms, 2 smaller rooms and a kitchen.

Now converted into a museum, the site devotes all of its 6 floors to Mozart presentations. The first floor features Mozart's apartment and a Mozart shop. The second floor features the exhibition entitled, 'Mozart the musical genius.' The third floor illustrates the different areas of Mozart's life in Vienna.

To get in, one needs to pay 9 Euros, but I personally presume that it is well worth it. The Mozarthaus is one great way to get a glimpse into the musical genius' world.

Sample A Cup Of The Supreme Viennese Coffees

If you are in Vienna, and you would wish to have a cup of coffee, in no way order just coffee. In Vienna, only tourists do that since the true Viennese coffee connoisseur orders in particular coffee mixed with other drinks like the following types:

VIENNESE KAFFEE 101

Schwarzer or Mokka which is brought together alone with cream.

Mokka gespritzt or Doppelmokka which is pure coffee mixed with brandy. This particular mixture is certain to calm your nerves!

Verlaengerter which is a diluted kind of mokka, or coffee with a large amount of water.

Einspaenner which is the double mokka for those who decide for their coffee exceptionally creamy.

Tuerkischer which is the strained version kind of the typical mokka.

Brauner or the schwarzer coffee sample that is mixed with milk.

Gold which does not refer to the expensive metal since this is brauner with lots of milk.

Melange which is a cup of pure coffee with bubbly milk and rich, creamy chocolate.

Fiaker, which is my personal Viennese coffee choice: A perfect blend of cherry brandy and powdered sugar heated, double Espresso with toppings of cream, cherry on top.

Maria Theresia which is mokka put in with orange-liqueur, powdered sugar, cream, and colored cubes of sugar.

Pharisaeer which is again double mokka with cream, cinnamon, lemon, sugar, cacao-powder, and heated up rum.

Coffee master or not, it is recommended that one be knowledgeable on the different kaffee specialties of Austria. After all, Viennese coffeehouse tradition goes as far back as 1683, and getting to know the different Viennese kaffee versions may prove useful if ever you find yourself in Austria one of these days.

AUSTRIA'S LOVE Rendezvous WITH WIENER SCHNITZEL

Because of its site in Central Europe, Austrian dish is highly influenced by other European culinary. Vienna, in particular, has a delectably mixed range of meals that reflect gastronomic delights from different cultures and from different times in history. The city boasts of many colorful and scrumptious culinary norms.

You have not tasted a fragment of Vienna, if you have not savored Wiener Schnitzel. This acclaimed traditional Austrian meal is actually made of veal, although some stores now use pork escalope. The title wiener schnitzel is German for veal piece. This Viennese meal, according to my host, might be primitively from Italy, as the dish, cotoletta alla milanese. Well, Viennese or Italian, this meal is also quite acclaimed in Sweden, Australia, Israel, Poland, and the Czech Republic. And wherever you are, schnitzels just seem to be alluring, kommen sie und essen sie come and devour.

So well-acclaimed has wiener schnitzel been, it was even presented in Austria's world-renowned musicale, The Sound of Music. Could you assume which song schnitzel shown? In the second section of the song, My Favorite Things, a line goes, Cream colored ponies, and crumbly apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells, and schnitzel with noodles. What a fine dish wiener schnitzel is, especially when served with potato salad and a lemon slice! I could say anything no more, except that this Austrian dish is surely köstlich (delicious)!