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Thursday
November 26th
2009

If you invest 5 minutes in its preparation and are patient enough to then let it sit at least for one week on your kitchen shelf, you will be rewarded with the most fragrant golden digestive you can imagine.

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Thursday
October 29th
2009

Show me a neat – doable – pasta shape and I’m sold. It doesn’t take much to twist my arm and that’s what happened when I first laid hands on a dear friend’s book.

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Saturday
August 29th
2009

Lots of new recipes in the pipeline, but sadly my computer decided to bend inwards and die on short notice – no goodbye, no farewell only the dreaded blue screen of death.

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Wednesday
January 16th
2008

…tempting nevertheless. My first choice was slightly influenced by the leeks in my fridge, which have been waiting for their gala display longer than necessary already. But then, is there a better ending to a leek’s life than becoming julienne for risotto? I hardly doubt that. Besides,…

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Saturday
March 24th
2007

Sometimes months go by and non of the cookbooks that pass through my hands make my heart jump for joy. This is not to say that those books are bad – they are not – there’s just nothing extraordinary about them, nothing that makes them stand out from the crowd. Then,…

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Thursday
January 4th
2007

Just like you can be certain to see Dinner for one on New Years Eve, well, on German TV anyway, it’d surprise if you hadn’t stumbled over one of the many Top-Whatever-Lists of 2006

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Saturday
November 4th
2006

…but then there is this rare occasion when you get hold of a very special book and you know it too the very moment you open it. Books that meet my individual taste spot-on and sometimes even exceed my anticipation…

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Saturday
October 14th
2006

German postal service and I not necessarily see eye to eye, up until recently anyway. But it’s changing, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Since I’m primarily an online book shopper, most of my new cookbook fixes I get via mail.

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Monday
March 20th
2006

Not so long ago we received an invitation by GRÄFE UND UNZER (publishing house) to join a book lauch event in the center of Munich. GRÄFE UND UNZER, in case you haven’t heard of them before, have been market leader for cookbooks in Germany for over thirty years now – always known for down to earth, comprehensible and no-fuss cookbooks.

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Thursday
November 10th
2005

The bible of authentic Italian cooking, “Il Cucchiaio d’argento” was first published in Italy in 1950, being Italy’s best-selling cookbook for over fifty years now.

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Saturday
May 14th
2005

Apart from the stacks of post-it like notes the cookbooks photographed are only the ones that ganged together, single ones that are scattered all over the place…

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Sunday
April 17th
2005

We found it very easy to make, extremely yummy with the adhoc yoghurt sauce creation and most definitely something we’ll do again as appetizers for a next event.

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