Creamy lemon curd enriches each forkful, brightening the vegetables' flavor and the plate's overall color scheme, while the ruddy quinoa grains provide earthy ballast.

WSJ: Tyson Cole's Romanesco With Seared Broccolini, Lemon Curd and Quinoa | Slow Food Fast

With a forkful of the apple cake or apfelkuchen, as Berliners would have it, one is a time traveller back in the city's heady days of the late 1920s.

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