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Luxembourgish Foodways

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The food of the Grand Duchy: a small country with its own language, sitting exactly where the Germanic and Romance worlds meet, and eating accordingly — German portions and French technique, as the local saying has it. Pork and smoked meats, potatoes, broad beans, freshwater fish, Ardennes game and forest, MOSELLE WINE on the eastern river terraces, and a baking tradition pulled between Vienna, Paris and the Rhineland. ⚠ NOT A SUBSECTION OF GERMAN, FRENCH OR BELGIAN FOOD — all three are edges.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Luxembourgers community documented

Languages: Luxembourgish

What is recorded

  • Luxembourgish foodways are recorded as a first-class national system with no cuisine as a parent. German, French, Belgian and Alsatian foodways are typed relationships. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Alsatian Foodways documented

    Two Germanic-speaking regions inside or beside France with comparable pork, sauerkraut, wine and baking traditions — and not the same place.

  • related to Belgian Foodways documented
  • related to French documented

    French as an administrative language, French pâtisserie and restaurant technique, and the Lorraine border.

  • related to German Foodways documented

    A shared border, a Moselle Franconian language continuum, and a shared pork, potato and baking repertoire.

  • related to Swiss Foodways possible

    A comparison between small multilingual states rather than a culinary relationship.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Belgian Foodways documented

    One duchy until 1839, a customs union since 1921, and one Ardennes.

  • related to Belgian Luxembourg Foodways documented

    ⚠ TWO DIFFERENT PLACES sharing a name and, until 1839, one duchy. The Belgian province and the Grand Duchy are never merged in this system.

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