As a fledgling restaurant cook, I learned how to make spaetzle, the delicious little German dumplings, from an accomplished Austrian chef. He could practically make a batch of spaetzle with his eyes ...

Have you ever heard of Käsespätzle? I hadn’t, so when I saw it as a menu choice during a recent visit to Bavaria, I wasn’t interested at first. But then I remembered Käse is the German word for cheese ...