Book excerpt: For novices and gourmets, this unique cookbook offers a tempting variety of Central European dishes from the shores of the Danube River, bringing Old World flavour to today's dishes. Including such favourites as: Black Forest Pork Roast; Housekove Knedliky (Bread Dumplings); Hungarian Goulash; Spinach Zagora Style (from Bulgaria); and Mititei (Romanian Sausages) this cookbook spans the range of home cooking. Along with a special chapter, Christmas Along the Danube, which covers holiday specialities of all the countries, the book also includes black and white photographs of menus, shots of regional interest, and maps and illustrations throughout. A new appendix includes information about classic wines from central European countries like Germany, Austria and Hungary.