In 1993, a charming novella skyrocketed to the top of Germany’s bestseller list: Die Entdeckung der Currywurst (it means “the invention of curried bratwurst”), by Uwe Timm. The book’s subject was one of Germany’s most bizarre and beloved street foods: thin slices of a starchy white sausage slathered with a sweet curried tomato sauce and served in a rectangular paper dish with toothpicks. Tradition holds that currywurst was born in Berlin in the