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Bearing Stubborn Fruit: The German Character of Missouri's Wine Region |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: Daniel W. Marshall |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 3,425 Words, 21,206 Characters |
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On the third Sunday in March, knowing passengers begin to salivate when Amtrak No. 358 squeezes between Kallmeyer Bluff and the Missouri River, rumbles over Frene Creek, and rolls to a stop at Gutenberg Street in the historic German town of Hermann, Missouri. Just a block away, in the Festhalle of Hermannhof Winery, a panel of retired sausagemakers, food editors, and representatives of the Missouri State Pork Board prepares to sample over 150 professional and amateur entries; award ribbons in sixteen categories; select the Best Wurst of the Show from the fifteen varieties of German sausage, including leberwurst, blutwurst, schwartenmagen; and induct new members into the Wurstfest Hall of Fame.
This is Hermann's Wurstfest. As the day unfolds, tourists consume over one ton of sausage an...
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...rown tentacles, enormous sawtooth-edged, green leaves, and pigtail-inspired feelers.
It is no accident that Anna Hesse loves to walk around her family homestead and preserve it in paint, nor that Tim Puchta has chosen to devote his life to revitalizing the family trade. Like their fathers and mothers before them, they seem to commune with nature. Luckily, the result is bottled and sold.
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