Himmel- Heaven and Erde-Earth reference the key ingredients in German style mashed potatoes. Apples from a local orchards’s tree and potato from the earth of local farms. Add honey, bacon bits, a bit of onion, cream, mash and you are in Octobertfest outgrowing your lederhosen. Here are two recipes for Himmel and Erde. And one more from the  “Recipe Goldmine” web site. Prost! ..cheers in German. Grill some sausages from say Fowle’s on High Street Newburyport and enjoy one of the New England brewed beers at New England Wine and Spirits on State St. near the Rt 1. Circle. Try one of these recipes for German mashed potatoes and experience a bite of heaven on earth this beautiful autumn in New England. And Wilkommen to our young German visitors to the High School German program. Grusse Gott!