Finding excellent Bavarian dining in Western North Carolina
I was surprised, while doing a little bit of research for this article, to find Germans were the second largest European group to settle in the Smoky mountains behind the Scot-Irish. I spent a portion of my youth living in Northern Indiana, where German culture and Germanic people were common.
But, having knocked around these mountains for a 35 years or so, I must admit I haven’t seen a lot of knockwurst. Or really, not much of any wursts at all. And don’t get me started on the relative lack of schnitzel. It’s heartbreaking.
We had been going to Hendersonville for years, but it wasn’t until we stayed the night in nearby Flat Rock that I learned there is Kartoffelpfannkuchen in them that hills…