From fried schnitzel to currywurst, here are six old-school German recipes that serve as the perfect comfort food dishes.

Sauteed German sausages: This Food & Wine recipe pops, pairing a dozen weisswurst or bratwurst with sauerkraut braised in bacon and apples. Animal-friendly tofu weisswurst: Don't eat meat?

Specken dicken, the not-too-thick, not-too-thin sausage-filled pancakes, are a breakfast favorite that her family makes on New Year's Day.

With 125 employees, the company makes sausages from about 130 different recipes, most of which use old-world European techniques and ingredients.

Two clues that sausages are not health food: Big guys with painted faces love to eat them, and "with beer" is a common serving suggestion. That doesn't matter at German Gourmet, the import store ...