Julien Riehl

If there’s one typically local tradition—one that’s fallen a bit by the wayside—that connects the people of Alsace and the Moselle, it’s the Wàldmeister! You lucky ones—I’m going to share my experience with you, because spring is coming and it’ll soon be the season for sweet woodruff, the French name for Wàldmeister. Sweet woodruff In […]

“Alsatian is a mixture of French and German” This statement, which you may have heard before, is totally…wrong ! Let me explain in this article. What is Alsatian? Alsatian is in fact a Germanic dialect in the same way as Bavarian, Saxon or Swiss German. In fact, these dialects are even older than the standard […]