DW's roll-call of classics from German cuisine from sauerkraut to potato salad looks at Germany's favorite food: bread. Germany has a wider variety of bread than any other country - more than 3,000 different specialties. Perhaps the best-known is pumpernickel, a dark sticky type of bread that originated in western Germany during the Middle Ages.

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