My daughter and I made one of our favorite dinners tonight: Austrian semmelknödel (dumplings) with mushroom cream sauce. Austrians are dumpling pros, and if you have never had the pleasure, it is almost worth the trip just to get the food. Of course, combine the food with the Alps and a trip to Gmundner Keramik, and it is worth the trip.

Anyway, we made more than enough dumplings for my modest family of seven, and I commented half-jokingly to my daughter, "You should sell those extra dumplings on eBay." Next thing I knew, she had set up a display and was taking a digital photo of four dumplings. Only then did it occur to me that someone might actually object to our selling dumplings over the internet, so I did a little digging and found that states do indeed regulate the sale of frozen food. We could start our dumpling business, but it appears that we would need a license in most states, and we would need to sell many dumplings to cover that cost. When my daughter heard all of this, she was very disappointed. Her entrepreneurial dream had been squashed like a bad dumpling. So I am on the lookout for a new entrepreneurial idea for her. How about an Austrian import business? At least with that we could justify regular trips to the Salzkammergut.

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