Taste the World!
Throughout my sourdough journey to “bake the world a better place”, I have learned a great deal from experienced bakers. Friends and colleagues have now asked me to teach them how to make sourdough bread in return. What an honor! I wondered how I might be able to best meet this demand. Initially, I focused …
Traveling through the Alentejo region of Portugal feels like stepping into a different world. One where the pace of life slows down, and the landscape tells the story of centuries of human interaction with nature. The rolling plains are dotted with cork trees, their bark harvested every few years in a practice that has shaped …
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In October 2023 I had the chance to visit Mozambique during a business trip. The main goal was to see two of our WWF projects supported by German public donors and perform an internal evaluation. Although the itinerary was very busy with not that much free time, I traveled to remote places and could interact …
When my friends Matthias and Ana told me that they would move temporarily to Morocco for work reasons, I already knew I would visit them and travel through the country for a while. During my first visit to Morocco some years ago I only explored the region around Agadir, doing day trips to Essaouira, the …
Uzbek cuisine is really about noodles, bread, rice, and meat, if you want to put it into three words. As a Central Asian country, it received influences from all directions, also because of the Silk Road, which crossed the country with Khiva, Bukhara, and Samarkand as the main reference cities. Influences from Persia, Turkic tribes, …
In recent years, mass tourism has grown by leaps and bounds in Antalya, but sadly (maybe thankfully?) few know about the region’s cultural diversity and natural riches. The cuisine also has a lot to offer, including global trends into a tasty fusion. Sourdough products, too! In September 2023, I revisited the region with two friends, …
In September 2022, one of my dreams came true. In my last weeks of my sabbatical I finally reached Andalusia, a region which has started to fascinate me a long time ago. Not just its natural treasures, like the coastline or its national parks are worth exploring but also its unique history on the European …
Once upon a time, there was a green oasis in the middle of the busy city, an urban garden called “Himmelbeet” in the middle of Wedding, my neighborhood in Berlin. I say once upon a time because after years of presence and becoming an organic community component, it had to close its doors in late …
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When the Uzbek Government lifted the entry requirements for a lot of countries in 2019, it was clear for me that this was my chance to travel into Central Asia for the first time. I would finally get to continue my journey along the Silk Road, which had started by visiting some of the beautiful …
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