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“I became a chutney cosmopolite,” he wrote, “and a raconteur of relish recipes.”

“My father was killed in Russia. The war turned me into a cosmopolite and opponent of all nationalisms and all politics while just a schoolboy.”

The last year, however, has thrown even cosmopolites back on small areas and local attachments.

It favored rural Germans and targeted supposed forces of modernity: liberal media members, Jews, cosmopolites.

In one scene, the function of food as a status symbol for globe-trotting cosmopolites becomes clear.