“Swinging” Pork Steaks

“Come over for some schwenken” (literally, this means “swinging”). No, it’s not an invitation for German wife swapping but an evening of barbecue Saarbrüken style. This lively city on the Saar River, a stone’s throw from the French border, has one of the most distinctive grilling methods in Europe, and one of its best kept barbecue secrets. And it all starts with a schwenker—a swinging, or more accurately, both swinging and rotating, grill. A schwenker (“swinger”) is al