Brandenburg cuisine Bernau but the famous "Bernauer Bier" was last produced in Friedrichshagen, a district belonging to Berlin. In the surroundings of the city Werder (Havel) many fruits are grown and processed to fruit vines. Of course there are also several distilleries manufacturing fruit brandies. Brandenburg cuisine The cuisine of Brandenburg, a region of Germany, is considered rather down-to-earth compared to other cuisines. Because many people in Brandenburg have Slavonic roots, the cuisine is very much influenced by their habits and customs, such as is the case in Mecklenburg and Pomerania. Due to the numerous greater and smaller inland lakes in Brandenburg
Hell Gate Hell Gate Hell Gate is a narrow tidal strait in the East River in New York City in the United States. It separates Astoria, Queens from Randall's and Wards Islands. The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase "Hellegat" (it first appeared on a Dutch map as "Helle Gadt"), which could mean either "bright strait" or "clear opening", and it was originally applied to the entirety of the East River. Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, the first European known to have navigated the strait, described it in his journals during his 1614 voyage aboard the "Onrust". Hellegat is