I read today that McDonald’s is planning to build a huge branch across from Checkpoint Charlie. I really hope that the residents of Berlin will not allow that. I know how disgusted I feel when I see tourists glaring on the Holocaust Memorial while dipping their donuts in the dunking coffee. I am not saying [...]
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Can anyone pass me the kosher shrimp?
Posted in Germans and food, j-in-g on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the line of soda
Posted in Germans and food, ignorance on November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Went today with Maya to the train station to buy tickets. I could have gone on my own, but I wanted it to be a moment that we both remember, that 20 years from now she would be able to tell her friends that she was a part of her father’s groundbreaking journalistic voyage. We [...]
Berlin, 20 years after
Posted in Germans and food on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was the kind of weekend that you don’t book any ski vacation for. First our daughter got a very bad stomach bug from her Kita. It was so bad my wife started bugging me that we might need to go to the hospital and check it out, to make sure it wasn’t the Swine [...]
drawer full of hearts
Posted in Germans and food, integration on September 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I remember my first time shopping in a German supermarket. It was in a Kaiser’s in the west, it was a Saturday and I was buying all sorts of stuff in order to cook on the weekend. Naturally, I didn’t carry cash with me, so by the time the cashier finished bar coding me I [...]
Sign of a time
Posted in Germans and food on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I was in Friedrichsein and saw this wonderful sign on the external wall of “Kaiser’s”: Opening hours: MO-FR 08:00-20:00 SA: 08:00-20:00
packages, community and hamburger
Posted in Germans and food, integration on August 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I remember that the first time I had moved to Berlin, in 2003, I was depressed for a long time. I tried for a long time to understand why and I reached the conclusion that moving from New York to Berlin is quite a cultural shock. Berlin is a distorted mirror to life in New [...]
PROST
Posted in Germans and food on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Spent a couple of days this week at the bartenders world championship in Berlin. http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,642127,00.html
SWEET SOUVENIR
Posted in Germans and food on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, Tuesday, I joined Charles, Jutka, Jutka’s mother and the couple’s three weeks (and FOUR days) old baby Felix, to a walk through the Turkish market on Maybachufer (open Tuesdays and Fridays, between 10-18, go early if you want to avoid the war with the baby strollers). We saw eggplants the size of football (the [...]
