Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany by Ruth Paget
Stuttgart is Germany’s richest city. Mercedes-Benz and Porsche cars are manufactured here. The city is surrounded by Riesling vineyards. The city’s cash flow is also assured as the home of reasonably priced Ritter-Sport chocolate.
One of Stuttgart’s star attractions is the Porsche Museum. My husband Laurent and I decided to visit it and contribute to the local economy when we lived in Stuttgart for five years.
I felt like Laurent was getting to do something he liked as one of our cultural outings. We usually visit lots of castle kitchens and monasteries with pre-Columbian vegetable gardens. I like studying medieval household management, but do recognize that cars make modern life nice, especially in the Western United States.
We drove our GM product to the Porsche Museum, and had fun walking around the red, white, and yellow race cars in the gleaming white museum.
Germans make great merchandise, so we headed to the gift shop to make some purchases. We bought USB ports for our computers that had model Porsche cars on their ends and looked through T-shirts, caps cups, and decks of cards with Porsche models as jacks, queens, and kings.
I thought the T-shirts were informal surveys to see which Porsche models might sell well.
At home, I made shrimp kebabs with shrimp I had marinated in lemon juice and crushed garlic overnight.
We ate chic Weihenstephan yogurt as dessert. Weihenstephan is better known for its beer. The monastery brewery was founded in 1040 and has a limited number of other food products for sale in Germany.
To finish off our meal, we drank smooth Dallmayr coffee from the department store of the same name in Munich.
I thought the lunch was something a trim and well-off German might like.
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
