Austrian Cuisine: Austrian cuisine, has been strongly influenced by the events of the Habsburg Empire, in fact flavors and ingredients from ex-province of the Habsburg Empire and from the Ottoman Empire, have helped to enrich the famous Austrian cuisine. Each Austrian region has typical dishes, like the Knödel Salzburg (a kind of bread dumplings, salty or sweet, filled with meat, vegetables or fish), or Taschen of Carinthia (stuffed pasta similar to tortelloni), Wienerschnitzel (beef cutlet breaded and fried) from Vienna, the Zwiebelrostbraten (roast beef with onions), Tafelspitz (stew beef), Kalbsgulasch (stew veal). Famous are desserts as the strudel (Apfelstrudel), the Linzertorte (tart with almond and black currant jam), or chocolate-based, such as Sachertorte.