German Culture Site
	Francine McKenna BellaOnline's German Culture Editor

Chocolate Museum Cologne
Cologne's Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum is the world's largest Chocolate Museum. Looking like a ship docked on Germany's Rhine River, it is an interactive journey through chocolate history, a sub-tropical forest with cocoa plants, and the steps cocoa beans take before becoming chocolate treats.

Chocolate Museum in Cologne, Germany
Cologne´s Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum, the world´s largest and most comprehensive chocolate museum. A futuristic building, designed as a boat moored alongside the River Rhine, it is an inter-active museum where you can visit a mini sub-tropical forest with cocoa plants, learn about chocolate history, and watch as chocolate begins life as cocoa beans and ends up ground, processed, molded as an Easter Rabbit, Egg or Chick, and wrapped in coloured foil. With a short video.

Easter in Germany - Customs and Traditions
Easter in Germany is a mass of colour where decorated eggs and chocolate rabbits do play a large part in the celebrations, but there are many additional religious, secular and folk traditions and customs around the days of remembrance and festivities.

Easter in Germany - Eggs and Easter Trees
An Easter without eggs is hard to imagine, and in Germany from Easter Trees and Easter Fountains to Easter Sunday's Egg Hunts and Breakfast Table, eggs of one type or another still play a starring role in the country's Easter celebrations.

Easter in Germany - Traditional Recipes
The Thursday before Easter is 'Green Thursday' in Germany, with a tradition that meals for the day should be 'green'. Green Bean Soup and Seven Herb Soup are two of the most popular, and any left over herbs are used for Eggs with Frankfurter Green Sauce on Easter Sunday.