Happy 2025!

Happy 2025 from Tara’s Multicultural Table! 2024 was another big year of travel, food, and amazing cookbooks.

Total views for the year were 1,781,917! The countries with the most visitors were the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Germany, New Zealand, Netherlands, France, and Sweden.

Thank you all so much for your continued support and I am excited to see what new recipes and travel 2025 brings.

Here are the most popular 2024 blog posts:

• Rakott Krumpli (Hungarian Layered Potatoes)
• Ravioli Ricotta e Limone (Lemon Ricotta Ravioli) (updated post)
• Berliner (German Filled Doughnuts) (updated post)
• Chocolate Hazelnut Taiyaki (updated post)
• Niku Udon (Japanese Beef Udon) (updated post)
• Imqarrun Il-Forn (Maltese Baked Pasta)
• Orange Cardamom Cookies (updated post)
• Pajeori (Korean Green Onion Salad)
• Shopska Salad (Balkan Šopska Salata)
• Mochi Pizza

Here are the most viewed posts in 2024 (none were actually from 2024):

• Pannekoek (South African Crepes with Cinnamon Sugar)
• Blini (Russian Crepes)
• Garlic Butter Sauce for Pasta
• Pretzel Bread
• Lepinja (Balkan Flatbread)
• Künefe (Turkish Sweet Cheese Pastry)
• Pani Popo (Samoan Sweet Coconut Buns)
• Toasted Marshmallow Syrup
• Sopa de Fideo (Mexican Noodle Soup)
• Bún Thịt Nướng (Vietnamese Grilled Pork with Rice Noodles)

My personal favorites of the year:

• Honey Mustard Pasta Salad
• Herb-Laminated Pasta
• Cherry Blossom Muffins
• Adjaruli Khachapuri
• Paste cu Brânză (Romanian Pasta with Cheese)
• Schoggiweggli (Swiss Chocolate Buns)
• Sweet Potato Tempura
• Ajvar (Balkan Roasted Red Pepper Spread)
• Orange Lemon Smoothie
• Sachsenhäuser Schneegestöber (Sachsenhäuser Cheese Spread) 

Favorite Cookbooks:

I started doing regular cookbook reviews in 2015 and have come across so many amazing books over the past nine years!

Here are my ten favorites from 2024 (not necessarily released in 2024, but reviewed and not including digital copies):

• Vietnamese Grilled Pork Meatballs (Bún Chả Hà Nội) and Ẩn Chứa
• Japanese Potato Salad and Gohan
• Pierogi with Sweet Cream Cheese and The Sweet Polish Kitchen
• Smoked Sausage with Potato Salad and Frontières
• Café de Olla (Mexican Spiced Coffee) and ¡Buenos Días!
• White Chocolate Ganache with Raspberry Jam and Super Cute Meringue Cookies, Macarons and Marshmallows
• Okonomiyaki Toast and Konbini
• Quarkbällchen (Quark Fritters) and Classic German Cooking
• Babi Kecap (Kecap Manis-Braised Pork) and Mortar & Pestle
• Youtiao (Chinese Fried Dough) and Bao Family Cookbook

Travel:

For travel this year, I finished sharing the last three cities (Augsburg, Bad Ems, and Frankfurt am Main) from my 2023 trip to Germany.

We also spent a wonderful two weeks in Switzerland as a family and more time around our current home in Northern Virginia (with posts for the Mosaic District, Around the World Embassy Tour in DC, Rockville in Maryland, and Centreville).

On Friday, I shared photos and food from time spent with my brother in Sedona, Arizona.

I was back in Germany in December and am currently working on blog posts featuring my favorite spots in Munich and Frankfurt am Main (again). I will also be featuring my Christmas market visits later at a more seasonally appropriate time this year.

• Kartoffelknödel (German Potato Dumplings) and Augsburg
• Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes) and Bad Ems, Germany
• Sachsenhäuser Schneegestöber and Frankfurt am Main
• Spetzofai (Greek Sausages and Peppers) and Mosaic District
• Mandazi (East African Doughnuts) and Around the World Embassy Tour
• Oyakodon (Japanese Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl) and Rockville, Maryland
• Chäschüechli (Swiss Cheese Tartlets) and Luzern, Switzerland
• Brönnti Creme and Bern, Switzerland
• Gipfeli (Swiss Cresent-Shaped Pastries) and Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
• Basler Leckerli and Basel, Switzerland
• Kkwabaegi (Korean Twisted Doughnuts) and Centreville, Virginia
• Zürcher Geschnetzeltes and Zürich, Switzerland
• Red Velvet Donuts and Sedona, Arizona

Happy 2025!