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Sacher-Masoch Torte (100% Pure Chocolate and Redcurrant Pleasure)

Desserts & Pastries/My Vienna - Freud & Food/Vegan

Sachertorte Variation: The Sacher-Masoch Cake — A Masochist’s Confection of Memory, Contradiction, and the Jewish Soul of Vienna (Whole-Food Plant-Based, Vegan, SOS-free)

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Nino Shaye Weiss / 0 Comment

Vienna, that grandiloquent stage of Central European history, remains, at its heart, a city defined by its cakes. The Sachertorte, that dark, glossy monument of...

Here is a beef tartare prepared as my son likes it, with plenty of capers, gherkins and a healthy dose of Tabasco.

Appetizers/Beef/Meat/My Vienna - Freud & Food

Beef/Steak Tartare: Sigmund Freud’s Breakfast, and Favorite Dish of Claude Lanzmann and Thomas Bernhard (Freudian Brunch Recipe)

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Nino Shaye Weiss / 17 Comments

First off, you may be wondering why I am talking about steak tartare on a Jewish-Viennese cultural food blog: Is it some rite of passage, an infamous entry gate...