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Lebkuchen, a (yummy) German cookie Lebkuchen is a traditional German baked Christmas treat, somewhat resembling gingerbread. The ingredients usually include honey, aniseed, coriander, cloves, ginger, cardamomo among others. Every Christmas I grab my Lebkuchen from a well-known German supermarket chain here in Malaga. Because of the number of resident foreign citizens has risen significantly in the last 30 years –especially of British and German nationals who move for the pleasant climate- it is quite easy to find common foreign brands. As a matter of fact, I have recently discovered a lovely American foodstuff shop with all types of non-perishable products. Well, back to Christmas sweets, even though Spain has a large variety of treats including turrones –innumerable flavours-, polvorones or mazapanes, I can’t imagine the season without having Lebkuchen. On 24th, prior to dinner I was on my way home when I caught sight of the aforementioned shop. Then it dawned on me: “my german cookies!” –I thought-, so I dropped in to get my cookies. I had an inkling though. “How could I forget this year?. I hope they aren’t already… no, no.”– I let myself convinced. Of course they were sold out. I asked the shop assistant and she informed me they were out of stock. She could see from my face that I wasn’t satisfied with that sort of news and awaited a more positive reply. “Hold on” –she said as she could see my desperation- we might have the last of them…let me talk with my supervisor. Eventually, the supervisor didn’t bring good news either. When I confessed my fail purchase to my mum she laughed: “Well, don’t act so shocked. It can’t come as a complete surprise. You should’ve gone way before this month. They are available since October or so.. I didn’t know you like them so much. If you'd told me I could’ve bought more…”–she said- “Do you mean…do you still have some?” –I replied hopeful, because my mom is the sort of person that hides all kind of things around the house for no apparent reason- “I’m afraid I’m not. I got many of them but these holidays I had to make some gifts and…well, people happen to like those cookies. They are quite tasty”. “Indeed” -I said, as showing a disapproval funny face- That’s all. I write this entry so I won’t forget again to buy earlier my favourite treat. I even got some recipes from the internet. It seems quite simple actually. When it comes to me though, cooking can be a tasty experience or a food chaos!

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Hey Andres,

 

These cookies look delicious, I wish we had more of these European treats here.

I wrote some style suggesions in blue, just to make it sound better although what you wrote is just fine.  Actual grammatical errors are in red.

 

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Lebkuchen, a (yummy) German cookie

 

Lebkuchen is a traditional German baked Christmas treat that somewhat resembles gingerbread. The ingredients usually include honey, aniseed, coriander, cloves, ginger and (writing style: when you do a list with commas, last two items should have an "and" joining them) cardamon, among others.

Every Christmas I grab buy (to me grab sounds too slangy, i would say something like "I'm going to grab something at the store/restaurant", but never write that in writing) my Lebkuchen from a well-known German supermarket chain here in Malaga. Because of the number of resident foreign citizens has risen significantly in the last 30 years, especially of the British and German nationals who move here for the pleasant climate, (writing style: I can't explain the exact orthographic rules for English, but we never use these double hyphens like they have in Spanish.  I think most of the time they should be commas or parenthesis) it is quite easy to find common foreign brands. As a matter of fact, I have recently discovered a lovely American foodstuff shop grocery with all types of non-perishable products.

Well, back to Christmas sweets, even though Spain has a large variety of treats including turrones (innumerable flavours), polvorones or mazapanes, I can’t imagine spending the season without having Lebkuchen.

On 24th, prior to (prior to sounds too formal - legalese) before dinner, I was on my way home when I caught sight of the aforementioned shop. Suddenly Then it dawned on me - “my german cookies!”, I thought, (redundant, dawning on you implies thought) so (writing style: never start sentences with prepositions like so, and, or, but) Quickly I dropped in to get my cookies. I had an inkling suspicion (This word doesnt work by itself.  Has to be "inkling of <something>, ex: inkling of them being gone.) " though. “How could I forget this year?. I hope they aren’t already… no, no.”– I let myself convinced. (not exactly sure what you mean here.  Maybe something like "But I convinced myself it wasn't too late":)

Of course they were sold out. I asked the shop assistant and she informed me they were out of stock. She could see from my face that I wasn’t satisfied with that sort of news and awaited wanted a more positive reply. “Hold on”, she said as she could see when she saw my desperation, "we might have the last of them…let me talk with my supervisor".  Eventually, However the supervisor didn’t bring good news either.

When I confessed my failed purchase to my mum, she laughed:

“Well, don’t act so shocked. It can’t come as a complete surprise. You should’ve gone way before earlier this month. They are have been available since October or so.. I didn’t know you like them so much. If you'd told me I could’ve bought more…”, she said.

“Do you mean…do you still have some?”, I replied hopefully, because my mom is the sort of person that hides all kind of things around the house for no apparent reason.

“I’m afraid I’m not. I got many of them but these holidays I had to make some gifts and…well, people happen to like those cookies. They are quite tasty”.

“Indeed”, I said, as showing a disapproval funny disapproving face.

That’s all. I write this entry so I won’t forget again to buy earlier my favourite treat next time. I even got some recipes from the internet. It seems quite simple actually. When it comes to me though, cooking can be a tasty great (cooking isnt the "tasty" thing, its the thing you cook.  You can say something like: my cooking can turn out something tasty or be a total disaster)" experience or a food chaos disaster.

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