Flavor

Thanks to David Snyder and his tweet I watched René Redzepi’s talk at the Terroir Symposium in Toronto. They published it on Eater, but a while later the video was set on private (I…

Fernweh

Fernweh [ˈfɛʁnˌveː] is one of these brilliant German words that puts so much into just few letters. It is the yen to see distant places, like “wanderlust” but much more intense. As you know I love travelling and I love…

Conscious Consumption

In my last post I wrote about how my online usage is interest-based. For example I like sandwiches, that’s why I follow certain people on Twitter, follow certain sources on QUOTEfm,  like certain things on Facebook, collect certain lists…

Digital Utopia

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Wordpress, Svpply, Foursquare, Flickr, Google, QUOTEfm, Pocket, LastFM, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tumblr, IFTTT, Notesy/Notational Velocity – these are the services I use, most of them daily. Some people might thing these are way too many. Do I…

The Lost Art of Creating a Sandwich

Sorry Mr. Bittman, but you are wrong. “The sandwich has become staid and unimaginative“? “We’ve allowed sandwich-making to become something that is either done by someone else or a task to be squeezed in between breakfast and

So…

There is a German saying: “Wer ’so’ sagt ist noch lange nicht fertig.” – which means something like “The one who says ’so’ is far from being done.” That’s why…

An Ode to Creative Work by Behance

Behance, the online platform to showcase & discover creative work, created this beautiful ode to the Creative Work. 92 seconds of goose bumps. I love it.

Also take a look at Behance’s about page, pretty nice.

Bear Pond Espresso

When it comes to coffee, there is a huge third wave and artisan movement going on in Japan. It’s basically their tradition to do everything until they reach “perfection”. There is no such thing as perfection but learning 7…

Being Elmo

I have been blogging a lot about passion, inspiration and ‘doing your own thing’ here, but the documentary Being Elmo comes straight to the point. I had goosebumps for 76 minutes. I had tears in my eyes,…

The Coffee Traveller

Coffee and travelling are two very important things in my life. Coffee just became important to me within the last 12 months. Within that time I developed a passion which can only be topped by the passion for sandwiches…