{"id":105,"date":"2005-10-13T23:25:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2005-10-14T03:27:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T03:27:59","slug":"the-schmankerl-stube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/13\/the-schmankerl-stube","title":{"rendered":"The Schmankerl-Stube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/usa-2005-east-coast?page=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/usa-2005-east-coast\/PICT2568.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"In the Schmankerl-Stube, Hagerstown, Maryland\" title=\"In the Schmankerl-Stube, Hagerstown, Maryland\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a>I think I have to rename our blog to &#8220;Steve and Mary-Anne&#8217;s <em>Culinary<\/em> Weblog&#8221;. We drove from Pittsburgh to Hagerstown, Maryland, and the main event today was eating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmankerlstube.com\/\">Schmankerl-Stube<\/a>. Mary-Anne spotted the advert in the local guide in our hotel room, and we decided we had to try it. It is a real piece of Bavaria on the east coast of the USA! The whole place is true Bavarian style, including the waitress. The food was excellent; they import their bread from a German baker in Toronto, and sausages from a butcher near Chicago. I ate M\u00fcnchner Geschnetzeltes, and Mary-Anne chose the restaurant&#8217;s specialty, Schmankerltopf, both with excellent Sp\u00e4tzle! Dessert was a home-made Apple Strudel, which tasted good, but the pastry was a little soft from being warmed in the microwave.<br clear=\"left\"\/><!--more--><br \/>\nWe also made another attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=102#comments\">spend money<\/a> at an outlet mall, this time successfully. Most of it went on books, but we even managed to find a shirt for me! (I am a reluctant clothes-shopper.) We also discovered a bank which, amazingly, refused to cash a Travellers&#8217; Cheque for us.<br \/>\nTomorrow, we head further south to our friends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminrosenbaum.com\">Ben and Esther Rosenbaum<\/a>. We&#8217;re looking forward to spending some time with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have to rename our blog to &#8220;Steve and Mary-Anne&#8217;s Culinary Weblog&#8221;. We drove from Pittsburgh to Hagerstown, Maryland, and the main event today was eating in the Schmankerl-Stube. Mary-Anne spotted the advert in the local guide in our hotel room, and we decided we had to try it. It is a real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/13\/the-schmankerl-stube\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Schmankerl-Stube&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}