Category: Food
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Peanut butter & jam with a dash of French flair
I bet my bottom dollar nobody serves it like the French on freshly baked, toasted bread, generously layered with slightly salted peanutbutter, homemade berry compot, sweet ripe bananas and a sprinkle of lightly salted peanuts!
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When nature, art, science & passion come together –
Visiting Weingut Kopp has always been a severely special occasion, but now, they have mastered combining so many tangible and intangible elements of two distinct cultures which harmonize and resonate so perfectly that I have no doubt that this will become one of Germany’s favourite wineries to visit.
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Easy-Peasy Veggyboxes
There’s life, right there, craftsmanship, future-thinking, teamwork, creativity, nature – genius, where, only a few weeks ago there was nothing but a normal paved walkway.
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“All Swabian kids love Pretzels”
A routine Friday morning visit to the local bakery for a cappuccino (“zum mitnehmen” – a takeaway), with my 7month old baby tucked away in his carrier pouch like a real Kangaroo Joey became a small tradition. My son is my coffee date, oh flip, and what a handsome and patient date he is. We…
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Germany – It might not be home, but it sure is a great adventure!
“We laugh loudly, we tell stories, we make jokes, we are occasionally late (and its OK), we greet strangers, eat colourful – well seasoned food, we drink intense wine and we dance with soul” twee Swanepoele South Africans differ from Germans in multiple, glorious and fascinating ways…this is the general perception considering German precision, German…
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Not your average fruitcake
My first encounter with Stollen was on Christmas Day 2019. It didn’t really impress me at first…it looked rather dry and the color, somewhere between white and brown which I found rather bleak for something to be displayed on a Christmas table. Thank Stollen-goodness for the colorful candied fruit pieces which decorated the seemingly dry,…
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