Les Halles market hall in Avignon. Patrick Blanc's plant wall has a sophisticated irrigation system and triggered a boom in vertical urban greening worldwide. 20 plants grow on one square meter / © Photo: Georg Berg

The market hall of Avignon

Les Halles, the market hall of Avignon with the vertical garden of botanist Patrick Blanc and delicacies from Provence.

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In the beer garden in Lana, you can taste the product range of the Pfefferlechner home brewery from tasting glasses / © Photo: Georg Berg

France and the desire for beer

The Auvergne – Rhône – Alpes region is home to a particularly large number of breweries. Why France is discovering a love of beer, tells a brewer from the Drôme Valley

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Austernplatte mit Meeresfrüchten im Strandpavillion Le St Pierre Tarbouriech. Hinter der Lagune liegt die Stadt Sète / © Foto: Georg Berg

Mediterranean oysters

Oysters are a popular appetizer in France. They are hardly filling, low in fat and carbohydrates, but contain many vitamins and minerals.

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Cold snout de luxe

Helmut Schmidt culinary

What do rutabaga, a stew and a children’s birthday cake have to do with Helmut Schmidt? A culinary interpretation provides answers.

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Curry Eggs

It’s amazing how quickly you can flavor boiled eggs. The variant with curry is exciting. So the eggs go well with many rice dishes

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Cholera on the menu makes curious in a year when the Corona virus is going around the world. It is an emergency dish from epidemic times / © Photo: Georg Berg

Cholera Swiss Specialty

Culinary specialties from Switzerland? First and foremost, chocolate and cheese. But cholera?

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Cooking with Lavender

In the kitchen, lavender is also used in the form of lavender salt or lavender sugar. As a tip for use: lavender has an aromatic proximity to rosemary

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Mural painting in the old town of Deventer. Motif on the occasion of the Hanseatic Year, which the nine Hanseatic cities of Holland celebrate in 2023. The mural has a reference to the past and present. Here in Deventer: Market woman with son selling Deventer honey cake and stockfish, important goods in the Hanseatic trade of Deventer. The boy wears a fan scarf of the soccer club Deventer Eagles / © Photo: Georg Berg

Cake from the city of Deventer

Deventer and cake, that’s like Lübeck and marzipan. The famous spice cake from Holland was a popular commodity even in the heyday of the Hanseatic League.

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Vivid purple lavender field with old stone house in the middle. In the valley of the Drome, the Alps meet Provence / © Photo: Georg Berg

Lavender flower in Drôme Provençale

The attraction of flowering lavender fields is as great as the famous Route Nationale 7 is long. What types of lavender are there and how to cook with them?

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Halloumi is pan-fried with sunflower oil - it is quite stable in shape and can withstand quite a bit / © Photo: Georg Berg

Halloumi? Hellim? Grilled cheese from Cyprus

It is white, keeps its shape, squeaks against the teeth and is political. Real halloumi (Greek) or hellim (Turkish) comes from Cyprus and the Mediterranean island has been divided since 1974.

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Alphorns are part of the hearty folklore at the gourmet event at the Gompm-Alm in South Tyrol. It takes place every year on the last Sunday in August. Well-known chefs prepare their dishes on old wood-burning stoves / © Photo: Georg Berg

Pfefferlechner craft brewery

South Tyrol is an ideal growth market for craft beer, because the Italians who like to try it are epicureans. Latest brewing creation is an alcohol-free beer

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Handmade, the bestseller of the chocolate manufactory Frigoulette is wrapped in golden paper. The Malakoff praline from Chocolaterie Frigoulette is available throughout France and is especially popular at Christmas. Malakoff is one of those sliced chocolates that do not have an additional wrapper around the center. The roasted hazelnuts give the praline a crunchy texture / © Photo: Georg Berg

Frigoulette chocolate from São Tomé

Bernhard Xueref discovered his passion for cocoa from São Tomé in 2010. It turned him into a chocolatier and ambassador for sustainability and Fairtrade

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