Spargelfest!

Last Friday our realtor Isabelle and her boyfriend Hans took us to a Spargelfest in one of the villages near Bad Dürkheim. Spargel is the German word for asparagus and here it usually means white asparagus. Germans are crazy for white asparagus. It's harvested in March or April and then they have festivals to celebrate the harvest. It's nothing fancy, just some picnic tables set up in a field with games for the kids and booze for the adults and of course plenty of white asparagus to eat.

Here are some of the picnic tables:

Here are Isabelle and Hans:

Here are the kids participating in a spargel peeling contest ... actually I think they're done here and in the process of being judged. You have to peel white asparagus before you eat it and these kids are pretty good at it already. I bet they're all a big help in the kitchen:

Here's my dinner - pork schnitzel with potatoes and spargel in a sort of spargel soup sauce. It took me awhile but I eventually fit it all in:

Here is a really big wine glass and a bottle of Secco. Prosecco is sparkling white wine that is made in Italy, and something can only be called Prosecco if it comes from Italy. So if you use the same grapes to make sparkling wine in Germany, you have to call it something else. Hence the name "Secco". And the big wine glass, I forget the name of it, is what people drink wine out of at the wine festivals here. You're supposed to fill half of it with water and half with wine but I don't think that actually gets done too often. And it's not a good idea to drink those if you're DD either because it will still get you horribly drunk.