Book: “The Sweet Zauner”

Description

In the countries of the monarchy and beyond, a summer without Bad Ischl was a waste of life, and a cure without a freestyle at Zauner was even more so.

While salt laid the foundation for Ischl’s flourishing spa business, sugar, no less therapeutically valuable, sweetened the healthy lives of spa guests. There were more guests than ever in those years: Ischl experienced the most brilliant era in its history. Because with the emperor – Franz Joseph had proposed to his Sisi here -, the spa and confectioner, well-known artists, writers and composers also arrived. Alfred Komarek revives this cultural and social heyday, closely interwoven with the origins of the Zauner confectionery.

With texts and anecdotes about Ischl by Nikolaus Lenau, Karl Kraus, Adalbert Stifter and others – and 21 summer recipes by Josef Zauner for coffee and dessert, including the legendary Schratt Gugelhupf.