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The atmosphere was upbeat when the cheerful Beata Pfeiffer appeared and put on her apron to show her cooking knowhow. Even before she began working with her pots and pans, she informally explained that Austrian cooking has a history of Hungarian and German influences.

Krautfleckerl, a famous Austrian dish of pasta and cabbage with bacon, was what Beata Pfeiffer with her Hungarian background casually offered to demonstrate first to an international group gathered at the Cooking Studio at the Eslite Bookstore Xinyi last week. Pallas Chen coordinated the activity.