There was a quark cheesecake, a rustic apple cake as well as butter cookies sandwiched together with melted chocolate into a loaf-like thing mystifyingly named Kalter Hund (or "cold dog").
If US politicians continue talking default and behaving irresponsibly on the fiscal side, the likely outcome is that faith in the dollar will erode, says Eliot Kalter, Senior Fellow at the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises at the Fletcher School of Tufts University in Boston.