Pork Schnitzel

In 1992, I left the States for an internship not in Italy, but in Germany, at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich. I knew nothing about Germany or German cooking, but the internship paid, and I figured it was closer to Italy than New York was. It was a challenging—and fascinating—time to be in Germany (the Berlin Wall had come down just two years before), and the restaurant kitchen was a microcosm of the era, a real melting pot of tensions and grievances and the uneasiness of change. (Not t