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When I was 49, I met a new friend who taught me something profound. “Be who you are,” was his advice.

This was a revelation. Silly me had spent the previous 48 years aspiring to be someone else entirely. Those wise words resonated recently when I went to visit Silke and Michael Hentschel, the proprietors of Haus Falkenstein, a schnitzel joint in the city’s west end that holds the Guinness World record for the largest number of commercially available schnitzel varieties.

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Haus Falkenstein had only been open in Edmonton for a few months last year when a fire destroyed a building next door to the restaurant. Haus Falkenstein was damaged in the process.

That was July. It took until the beginning of December to paint, repair and scour the place into shape (repairs were covered by insurance). But now it is back, fresher and brighter than ever, offering diners a chance to select from 67 schnitzels, the bestsellers from a record-breaking inventory of 347 different permutations of fresh, pan-fried and breaded pork.