Narrow streets and the city hall of Basel / © Photo: Georg Berg

Food tour in Basel

Basel offers a self-guided food tour. Under your own direction, you can reach restaurants with special concepts and get a lot for 29 Swiss francs.

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Saffron harvest in Mund, Switzerland / © Photo: Georg Berg

Culinary rarity – Saffron from Switzerland

The most expensive spice in the world does not only grow in the Orient. The southern slopes below the small village of Mund are considered the best growing area for the rare plants

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The historic Gasthaus Krone remains in the foreground, while the new building of exposed concrete, steel and glass, designed by architect Osman Askari, who formerly worked for Herzog & de Meuron, remains in the background. This distribution of roles was important to hotel manager Sonja Hechler / © Photo: Georg Berg

Markgräfler Küche im Hotel Krone

Walk through some diets. Chef Peter Prüfer of the Hotel Krone restaurant in Weil offers vegan cuisine and puts a new spin on the traditional

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Hotel Mühle in Binzen / © Photo: Georg Berg

Hotel Mühle brings Apulian cuisine to Binzen

In Binzen in the Markgräflerland region, a traditional house is currently reinventing itself. Host Fabio Elia brings his grandmother’s Apulian cuisine to the table

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Saffron harvest in Switzerland / © Photo: Georg Berg

Saffron, spice and remedy

Saffron gives an incomparable aroma. It would be too bad and too expensive to use saffron only as a coloring agent. About the cultivation in Valais and Morocco.

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Production of Japanese soy sauce in the Mejiiya Shoyu manufactory from 1872 / © Photo: Georg Berg

Shoyu – The black seasoning of the Japanese

A soy sauce factory in Shizuoka Prefecture passes on the knowledge of the traditional production of the Japanese basic seasoning to younger generations

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This is what sustainability looks like: The rail vehicle has been in service for more than a hundred years / © Photo: Georg Berg

Grenada’s oldest rum manufactory

The Antoine Rivers Manufactory looks just as old as it is. Here you can see the original process for the production of 500 bottles of rum per day.

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Shrine on Lake Hanama in Japan / © Photo: Georg Berg

Moonlight Spearfishing in Japan

Spear fishing is one of the oldest fishing techniques. It is practiced in many countries around the world and is considered a very resource-conserving way of fishing

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Katsuobushi – traditional production

The traditional production of the Japanese basic seasoning begins with blood, water and fire. This is how the tuna species bonito becomes a rock-hard delicacy.

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Green tea from Shizuoka / © Photo: Georg Berg

Green Tea as an Elixir of Life

The elixir of life for the Japanese grows in Shizuoka Prefecture. It is a potpourri of secondary plant substances that have a health-promoting effect

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At Caspar Plautz, creativity unfolds in the smallest of spaces. Agria potatoes are cooking in the oven, while Dominik Klier prepares the orders. As a side dish, a raw vegetable salad with organic vegetables from the neighboring stand Trübenecker / © Photo: Georg Berg

Caspar Plautz at the Viktualienmarkt

The hippest potato snack in Munich can be found at the Viktualienmarkt. Various potato dishes come to the bar table on a tin plate

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Potato decorative on the fork / © Photo: Georg Berg

Potato – World food star

Potato scene at a farmer in Upper Bavaria, at the big potato party and at the trendsetters of Caspar Plautz at the Munich Viktualienmarkt.

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