“I just want to try these Nürnberger sausages” or obesity in Germany
Authors . City life . Food . Health“Don`t worry, I also gained some weight here in Munich. Almost everyone does. You return home and everything will be okay”, – told me Natasha, a Russian girl who has lived in Munich already for 3 years. Meanwhile, obesity is a real problem in Germany, declared as a major issue by the federal government. Various
Et Voilà – Carlos Maio
Food . Travel” … have the opportunity to delight my clients with my own creations” Carlos Maio aka Pipas Maio is a brave guy that risked it all in his dreams. The Cuisine is his passion and as a young cooker his efforts have been rewarded by the professionals in the field. After going through for more
The Art of the Dinner Party
City life . Culture . Food . Night life . Student life . Travel . UncategorizedI never expected to say this, but one of the main things I’ve taken away from my first semester in Munich is the art of the dinner party. Dinner parties have been central to the creation and maintenance of close bonds with other exchange students. They have been the source of countless great conversations; funny
To drink or not to drink?
Culture . Food . Student life . Travel . UncategorizedI often found myself asking this question during my time here in Munich. To drink or not to drink? Most of the time I ended up drinking so much beer that I almost forgot it is okay to so “no” to a beer once in a while. Ofcourse drinking was not the most important factor
There is no such thing as a Vietnamese who dislikes food
Culture . Food . UncategorizedThere is nothing that makes me more happy than food, and I’m not exaggerating. My Vietnamese parents raised me with an important motto in life: live to eat, not eat to live. They actually mean it as growing up I’ve never been short of good food and was never denied a chance to try out
Is eating a “100 years old egg” in Berlin a crime?
City life . Culture . Food . Student life . Travel . UncategorizedToday I am twenty years old. Each day I have a lunch and a dinner like most of us have in our European countries. Every month I will eat fifty-six meals. During a year, my stomach and intestines will digest almost 2968 lunches and dinners. That is a lot, I know. But most of the
Focus on Coffee
Culture . Food . UncategorizedIf someone asked me about cultural groups or subcultures 5 years ago I would share my opinion about goths or hipsters or whatever. Now I am constantly living in big cities and I position myself as capital city resident, so I have my opinion slightly changed. There are still those traditional subcultures, but society in