Leonard Blaisdell > wrote:

> So what's your (any country, any region) specialty food that others
> here or in your own country are unlikely to be familiar with?

Lots of local Rhineland dishes. For example, Düsseldorfer Senfsuppe
(mustard soup); Düsseldorfer Zwiebelsuppe (onion soup); Ähzesupp (pea
soup, not unlike the Dutch erwtensoep); Flönz met Öllich (blood
sausage/black pudding with onions; in Cologne, it is rather more
inventively called 'Kölsche Kaviar met Musik', Cologne caviar with
music); Rheinischer Döppekooche (a kind of potato cake). I posted the
recipes.

Victor