The grammatical gender of a German word can be pretty random, as Henning readily admits. Would you believe that a big sausage has a different grammatical gender from a small sausage?

In addition to roast pork with dumplings, a pork joint with sauerkraut, and potato salad, no list of German national dishes would be complete without the humble currywurst or curried sausage. The ...

The sausages were a great luxury because they were made of the finest mincemeat. Writing in the 1st Century AD, the Roman historian Tacitus noted the German thirst. 'To keep drinking night and day ...

In addition to roast pork with dumplings, a pork joint with sauerkraut, and potato salad, no list of German national dishes would be complete without the humble currywurst or curried sausage. The ...