Vietzahn Revisited

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Around Berlin, Restaurant reviews | No Comments »

Since the last visit to the Dong Xuan Center, the mammoth Vietnamese shopping mall/wholesale outlet/grocery center, was culinarily unsatisfactory, and since we found several other places to eat after we'd ... Read more..

Tunisian Find in Charlottenburg

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Around Berlin, People, Restaurant reviews | 4 Comments »

It started when they ran out of merguez at our local market stand. The surly sausage flipper gave the last sandwich to the person right in front of us, and ... Read more..

MSG: The German Solution

Friday, July 4th, 2008 Posted in Ingredients explained, Rants and raves, Spices and flavors | No Comments »

A specter is looming over German cuisine: the specter of monosodium glutamate. Now, it's not my intention to get into the usual thrash about whether MSG is bad for you or ... Read more..

Better than Spargelzeit

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Fruits and Veggies, Market reports, Places, Recommended stores | No Comments »

Alphonso mangos have arrived in Berlin. If you’re from the United States, you may never have tasted an Alphonso mango. A pale yellow papaya color, the mango has a deep orange, ... Read more..

Vietzahn

Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Around Berlin, Fruits and Veggies, Market reports, Places, Recommended stores, Restaurant reviews | 14 Comments »

We'd been hearing about it for years: a huge Vietnamese market somewhere in the deep east, where the freshest herbs and vegetables you could want for your Chinese, Thai, and ... Read more..

Berry Pickin’ in the Country

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Around Berlin, Fruits and Veggies, Places | 2 Comments »

No, not the classic Homer & Jethro album, but a query from a reader: I was wondering if you all at Hungry In Berlin know if there are any places around Berlin ... Read more..

A Different Asia

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Rants and raves, Restaurant reviews | 4 Comments »

I'm ashamed of myself. The first time I passed Omoni (Kopenhagener Str. 14, Prenzlauer Berg), I saw the sign announcing that it was a Korean/Japanese restaurant and mentally went "Yeah, ... Read more..

Cheating At Curry

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Recipes | 5 Comments »

Okay, I'll admit it: I'm a lazy cook a lot of the time. The main reason for this is that I'm nearly always cooking just for myself, but although I ... Read more..

The Pasta Ladies

Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in Market reports, Rants and raves, Recommended stores | No Comments »

One of the things I struggled for years to find in this city was good fresh pasta. For a while, there was a place near where I worked in Charlottenburg ... Read more..

Cold Weather, Warm Knödel

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Restaurant reviews | No Comments »

  In the beginning, there was stale bread. And then Oma got creative and created the knödel. There is little wrong, especially when the temperature dips into the single digits, with ... Read more..

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