Comments on: Summertime In Fantasyland

By: debbieann

debbieann — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:59:16 +0000

I had the exact same problem with Bittman here in India, not only missing most ingredients, but also no OVEN. Guess we aren’t the target audience.

By: Karl-Marx-Straße

Karl-Marx-Straße — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:23:53 +0000

Well, I checked, and my local branch of Extra, from which I have bought mussels in the past, doesn’t have any at present. But they may do tomorrow… Perhaps they’re just all in Belgium at the moment, home of the European Mussel Mountain. Walking around Bruxelles-Midi last week, the streets were full of people eating them out of metal pots.

By: influx

influx — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:24:23 +0000

The Berliner Fischmarkt (www.berliner-fischmarkt.de) has a pretty decent selection of seafood, as does, to some degree, Mitte Meer behind the Hamburger Bahnhof. Mitte Meer also has another store on Kantstrasse. Frischeparadies on Morsestrasse in Moabit is not too shabby, either. One thing you forgot to mention is that you can order all kinds of seafood. It’s not that it’s impossible to get lobster in Berlin, you just have to plan ahead a day or two.

By: bowleserised

bowleserised — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:14:33 +0000

Oh, alright. Not sure that it was me false friending with the sole thing, given that I don’t know the German anyway.

By: Ed Ward

Ed Ward — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:43:58 +0000

Not our intention at all. I reserve that for my other blog. Nor is this issue about exotica; it’s about the narrow compass of what’s available. And, as you’ll see in future posts, what you can do about it and what you can do with it.

You should also look through those 101 recipes and notice that there are plenty of ‘em you can do here.

Also worth noting, what language folk call a “false friend”: sole is Seezunge, while Scholle is plaice.

By: bowleserised

bowleserised — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:14:18 +0000

You can get sole frozen from supermarkets here. And did you try any of the fish stalls on Kollwitz Platz market?

If every post is about how shit Berlin and Germans are and how this isn’t a world city and you can’t get every last ingredient here, then I’m gonna have to stick to Mr J Ward’s posts.

By: ChristinaG

ChristinaG — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:36:26 +0000

I just substituted Scholle for flounder in my recipes. Worked fine. I’d get it at the Karstadt in Wedding (don’t know what it may be called now or if it still sells fish though). Haven’t been able to eat fish since I get preggers, hopefully this goes away once the little guy is out and about.

By: Ed Ward

Ed Ward — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:52:48 +0000

Seen any lately? This is supposed to be summer food.

By: Karl-Marx-Straße

Karl-Marx-Straße — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:08:59 +0000

Buying mussels is no problem in Berlin - don’t overdo it!