Brew kettle and mash tun at the Bamberg Heller Brewery, where the classic smoked beer is brewed / © Photo: Georg Berg

Bamberg and the beer

As early as 1489, the prince bishop of Bamberg specified the ingredients for beer, which were only laid down 27 years later in the Bavarian purity law

In Erschmatt, the rye breads typical of the Swiss canton of Valais are baked / © Photo: Georg Berg

Rye bread baking experience

In Erschmatt, rye bread has been baked for centuries as a community event. Once a year, in December, they heat up the old oven in the community center

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.

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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