Homeland? A tricky concept for Oscar Germes-Castro. He prefers to say that he feels at home in two places: one of which is the Mexican city of Chihuahu and its population of 809,232; the other is Tirol, with its 757,634 inhabitants. He couldn’t stand the Tirolean dialect at first; he likes traditional Tirolean food – although without meat. Because he prefers to cook vegetarian dishes in his one-man restaurant, located just off the regular tourist thoroughfare in Innsbruck. Mexican pork tacos, however, still belong to some of his fondest childhood memories. The story of a Mexican who has made Tirol his new home.
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