TRADITIONAL FOOD Mountainous, wooded, and quaint, modern Austria borders Switzerland and Liechtenstein in the west, Germany in the northwest, the Czech Republic in the north, Hungary and former Yugoslavia in the east and southeast, and Italy in the southwest.Mountainous, wooded, and quaint, modern Austria borders Switzerland and Liechtenstein in the west, Germany in the northwest, the Czech Republic in the north, Hungary and former Yugoslavia in the east and southeast, and Italy in the southwest. Austria has been selected as a priority market for the food industry sector. Although the country has strong local production and relatively high imports from the EU with Germany, Italy and the Netherlands as the main suppliers, there is still scope for higher imports from the UK (currently ranked in 8th position) for food specialties, convenience, ready and ethnic foods as well as fish and fish products provided the quality and prices prove to be competitive.Austria has been selected as a priority market for the food industry sector. Although the country has strong local production and relatively high imports from the EU with Germany, Italy and the Netherlands as the main suppliers, there is still scope for higher imports from the UK (currently ranked in 8th position) for food specialties, convenience, ready and ethnic foods as well as fish and fish products provided the quality and prices prove to be competitive.

Regional Cuisines Austrian cuisine in general: It is the culinary reflection of an ethnically mixed people who, during the many centuries of the Austrian Habsburg empire's expansion and contraction, have exchanged culinary know-how with Turkish, Swiss, Alsacian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, German, Bohemian-Moravian, Hungarian, Polish, Croatian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Serbian, and Jewish cuisine. Typical Austrian dishes vary today according to the Bundeslander culinary history and to each "Bundesland's" agriculture with its export/import tradition.Austrian cuisine in general: It is the culinary reflection of an ethnically mixed people who, during the many centuries of the Austrian Habsburg empire's expansion and contraction, have exchanged culinary know-how with Turkish, Swiss, Alsacian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, German, Bohemian-Moravian, Hungarian, Polish, Croatian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Serbian, and Jewish cuisine. Typical Austrian dishes vary today according to the Bundeslander culinary history and to each "Bundesland's" agriculture with its export/import tradition.

Easter habits On Ash Wednesday you do not eat any meet, only fish. The most popular fish you eat on Ash Wednesday is herring. Lent is a time of fasting, when you do not eat as much as usual. Normally you decide not to consume e.g. chocolate or alcohol. Good Friday is also a day of fasting, it is the strictest day of fasting, you are also not allowed to eat meet. On Maundy Thursday it is usual to colour hard-boiled eggs and to eat spinach. Easter habits On Ash Wednesday you do not eat any meet, only fish. The most popular fish you eat on Ash Wednesday is herring. Lent is a time of fasting, when you do not eat as much as usual. Normally you decide not to consume e.g. chocolate or alcohol. Good Friday is also a day of fasting, it is the strictest day of fasting, you are also not allowed to eat meet. On Maundy Thursday it is usual to colour hard-boiled eggs and to eat spinach.

On Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. the bells ”fly” to Rome and so no bells ring until Saturday evening, when the resurrection of Christ is celebrated. On Palm Sunday he triumphant entering of Jesus in Jerusalem is celebrated. Everybody has a “Palm branch“ in his hands, made of twigs of 7 plants (e.g. ivy, fir, pussy willow) bound together on a wooden stick by a piece of willow. There is a procession around the village. Lent lasts for 40 days Ash Wednesday to Good Friday, the Sundays are excluded. If you got to Church on Ash Wednesday you get a cross of ash on your forehead. During lent you should go to confession, something a Catholic should do at least one a year.

In Styria people burn twigs cut off trees and bushes on Easter Sunday, White Sunday and the following 2 Sundays. These are called Easter Fires. And everyone wants to have the biggest heap. (If you burn garden rubbish on another day. He police with come and punish you.) White Sunday is called White.Sunday. because in former days people were baptized on the morning of Easter Sunday and were allowed to wear their white dresses until the following Sunday. Easter Sunday morning is a special day for children. The Easter bunny hides eggs an other little presents like chocolate in the grass and the children may look for them.

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