On a Spring day in April, I packed my camera gear and props to make the roughly one-and-a-half-hour drive from Weimar to Eichsfeld. The we...

The last couple of weeks I’ve had my head down (mostly) and have been trying to get a lot of paperwork and organization done. The big “T” ...

Imagine that stories were like a stew or a soup. People could weave their stories with ladles of wonderful rich, thick and flavorsome ingr...

It does not feel very much like Christmas – weather-wise. After a few days of extreme cold with -10 degrees, where the entire landscape was...

As the last of the golden leaves have fallen and the magnificent Autumnscape is replaced with barren trees and frosty fields, December com...

Sustainability: we all talk about it and we all aim to live by it. For all our good intentions do we understand what it really means and how...

Several years ago when we lived in Leipzig we had a Christmas ritual. A few weeks before Christmas we would get together with friends and...

The cakes of Christmas, be it the petite mince pie or the bombastic panettone or the heavyweight fruit cake, always bring with them a cer...

If the British have their roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and the French the Blanquette de veu – then this is Thuringia's all-time c...

“ Grünes Thüringen ” – will bring the wide and plentiful thick forests of Thuringia to mind. For me however Thuringia has a more colorful...

Martinshörnchen are available only once a year. From November 10 th to 11 th bakeries in our region, especially around Weimar and Erfu...

She was a proud buxom lady who commanded a very special aura of respect whenever she entered the oversized kitchen. It was the kind of re...

I’ve sung the song of my love for meatballs often and earlier this year took you on a world tour of meatballs . Here I am again with more...

How much kitsch is allowed at Christmas? As I walked past the stalls of the Christmas market this weekend, I felt a surge of happiness as...

Currywurst is to Germany as pizza is to Italy, hot dogs are to America and fish and chips are to Great Britain. But only a few have their ow...

The icy grip of winter holds us firmly. Just as I was thinking we were going to get the mildest winter in years, things took a turn and w...

  The tree is not up yet. But that is no cause to stress. It’s rather amusing though to see others break out in a cold sweat as they rus...

Mention pasta and one envisages a sturdy nonna shaping and kneading dough for fresh ravioli in a rustic kitchen. She dusts the well used k...

When I moved to Europe 17 years ago, one of the first rituals I quickly adapted myself to, was the coffee-time culture . While much has bee...

    Sometimes I think German cuisine is very inadequately underestimated. Fact is, there is a lot more to German food that sausages and beer...