Calm, concentrated and everything in view, this is how star chef Thomas Kellermann works with his team in the kitchen / © Photo: Georg Berg

Top chefs and their white brigade

Gourmet cuisine, that much is certain, is highly complex and behind it lies an extremely professional coordination of the white brigade. A real team effort.

View of the back of the Saint-Pancrace church, built from 1489 to 1503 in the Provençal Gothic style with a Renaissance facade in Aups, France / © Photo: Georg Berg

Winter truffle with chefs of Provence

Winter truffles are available in Provence from December. Then the upscale gastronomy in the Var department always has one or more truffle dishes on the menu

To collect the wild asparagus in Tuscany is rarely possible. This delicacy is precious and rare like truffles / © Photo: Georg Berg

Tuscany wild asparagus

Wild asparagus is considered a delicacy in Tuscany. In markets it is sold as a rarity. The harvest period extends over a few weeks in April.

Zincarlin in a rock cellar. Production of the traditional Zincarlin cheese from the Muggio Valley in Ticino, Mendrisio. Three different ages of the Ticino cheese speciality are stored here. The cheese cylinders are washed almost every day with white wine / © Photo: Georg Berg

Culinary specialties in Ticino

In Ticino, Switzerland, there are culinary treasures to be discovered to this day. Behind them are mostly passionate people who preserve culinary traditions.

The driveway of Chateau Leoube. The estate stretches four kilometers along the coast of the Var department / © Photo: Georg Berg

Olive growing at Château Léoube

Provence is one of the most beautiful and oldest cultural landscapes. For more than 2,000 years, people have been growing wine and olives on the Côte d’Azur

Sternebier - real Zoigl from the communal brewer / © Photo: Georg Berg

Zoigl Inn in the Upper Palatinate

The drinkable Zoigl beer is a bottom-fermented, unfiltered traditional beer from the northern Upper Palatinate. Windischeschenbach is considered the center of Zoigl.

The Zoigl star is said to be older than the Star of David. As a sign of the brewers' craft, it indicates where freshly brewed beer is available / © Photo: Georg Berg

Zoigl – Beer tradition in Germany

Reportage offer with many photos: Zoigl beer is traditionally brewed only in a few communities in the Upper Palatinate by private individuals, for their own consumption.

The price of the black winter truffle is about 600 euros per kilo at the beginning of the season and rises to about 1,000 euros per kilo by Christmas / © Photo: Georg Berg

The Aups truffle syndicate

Every year at the beginning of December, the truffle growers of the French department of Var line up in the marketplace of Aups for the opening of the truffle season. Who is allowed to sell here, to whom and at what price has been regulated by the syndicate for over 50 years.

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