Heimat #1: Veal “Kohlroulade” (Micha Schäfer, Germany)
Heimat #1: Veal “Kohlroulade” (Micha Schäfer, Germany) Heimat doesn’t translate. And perhaps it doesn’t need to. It isn’t a concrete place, but a feeling, something that lives in memory, through smell, taste, and texture. All of us carry it, none of us need to...
We cook Heimat
We cook Heimat © Julia Vermöhlen We are not translating the word. Heimat is one of those German terms that resists clean English equivalents. It gestures at home, belonging, origin, memory – and at the same time refuses to settle into any of them. In Germany, the...
A Proper Duck Dinner for the Dark Months
A Proper Duck Dinner for the Dark Months The bleak months in Berlin are basically their own season. Every shade between grey, greyer, and positively funereal. We do, quite selflessly, have a suggestion to help you make peace with late-autumn Berlin grimness: an...
Germany’s best duck, from Lars Odefey – what it costs, and why it’s worth It
Germany’s best duck, from Lars Odefey – what it costs, and why it’s worth It Good duck is surprisingly hard to come by in Germany. As with most foods these days, there’s plenty of mediocre, plenty of “it’ll do,” but very little that’s truly excellent. And then...
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