Sweet Talk

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Sweet Talk

Once upon a time, not that long ago, there was a man who was in his prime. His name was Johan Bülow and he lived in the small, picturesque town Svaneke on the Danish island Bornholm. Johan was an ambitious man with many ideas and visions, but above all one great passion: liquorice. Was sounds like the beginning of a Hans Christian Andersen story is the actual the truth about the success story of Lakrids. For over 5000 years, liquorice root has been used as medicine in China and that’s almost as long as liquorice has been enjoyed as a sweet treat across the continents. Johan, however, saw so much more potential in the sweet black root. And so, after various meticulous brewing attempts in a battered stainless steel pot, he ended up developing Lakrids, the world’s first gourmet liquorice, almost 10 years ago.
Beyond the pure, salmiac indulgence, this liquorice is made for spicing up and sweetening dishes of any kind, for enriching marinades and for giving drinks, ice cream and salad dressings that special twist. The foundation are carefully selected ingredients. Johan obtains the liquorice roots from the best farmers in Afghanistan, Iraq and Italy. They are enriched with local products whenever possible. Even the Chili Habanera comes from an organic Danish nursery. As an inspiration for eating and drinking with liquorice, Johan has put together 72 recipes in a book. Bacon salad with pomegranate and liquorice? Oh yes. Chocolate truffles with liquorice caramel? Most definitely. A »Black Blossom« made of Gin, elderflower, lime juice and fruity red liquorice? Absolutely! And they lived sweetly ever after.

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Lakrids by Johan Bülow | Gourmet liquorice in various shapes and sizes, from 6 Euro | www.lakrids.nu | Facebook

 

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The sweet soul of life

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The sweet soul of life

Sweets lift the spirits. Good sweets even make you happy. And delicious sweets in unrivalled quality can even make you euphoric. As we experienced ourselves recently during our visit to the Green Market Berlin. Curiosity and an appetite for sugar made us indulge in a few bars from Retos Candy Farm. The „Figaro“, for example: a combination of fantastic fig, rich ricotta and bewitching balsamico. Fluffy malt drops made from creamy, top-fermented British stout. Or the ultimate boost of energy Elvis Presley style: the “Banana Monkey”, a tummy-filling mix of the yellow fruit and sticky peanut butter. That’s about as American as these Retos bars get, mind you. Their delicious creations have absolutely nothing in common with the industrialised, plastic-infested, imperialistically produced calorie bombs that we find lined-up at the supermarket check-out, waiting to attack starved binge-watchers. The products being brewed, stirred and weighed by the gram in a former restaurant kitchen on the shore of the Spree in Kreuzberg are, as their creator Reto Brunner says, “small portions of hand-made joy”. Which brings us back to the beginning. The good things in life. And what made us return to the Candy Farm booth to shop some more after that first taste. Did we mention that the ingredients of Retos sweets are not only hand-picked and merged after countless experiments, but also organic? Goes without saying? Yeah, you know us pretty well by now. And our taste.
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Retos Candy Farm | for example at Markthalle Neun, Eisenbahnstrasse 42-43, 10997 Berlin | candyfarm.org

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Kategorien: Products | Autor: | Datum: 23. März 2016 | Tags: , , , |  Keine Kommentare

Lucie & Kai

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Lucie & Kai

The 2 Minute Interview

 

Lucie and Kai are the duo infernale of the sweetest art and pretty much the best thing that has happened to everyone hopelessly addicted to anything sweet. Patisserie JUBEL at Hufelandstraße in Prenzlauer Berg is their very own little heavenly kingdom of treats. The picturesque café and bakery offers the most exquisite and extraordinary works of art. Though that comes as no surprise: the two entrepreneurs learnt from the best and know exactly what they’re doing. How about some delicious lime and basil balls or a chocolate-mousse tart with green olives? Yes, please!!! We asked the girls a couple of questions and surreptitiously tried snatching up a few baking tricks along the way…Oh and the girls are celebrating their first Jubel anniversary on sunday! Check it out!

 

Name: Kai Michels / Lucie Babinska

Age: 34 / 33
Location: Berlin
Occupation: patissier / hotel manageress
Shoe size: 39 / 38
Favourite ingredient: butter / coriander
Contact: hallo@jubel-berlin.de

 

Sweet or savoury?
Kai: both
Lucie: LEBERWURSTBROT (a slice of bread with liver sausage spread on it)

 

What was the last thing you had to eat?
Kai: A nougat croissant!
Lucie: Me too – every morning!

 

What don’t you like eating at all?
Kai: Bananas
Lucie: Savoury dishes with a sweet touch (e.g. sweet and sour duck, cheese with chutney etc.)

 

What’s your favourite music while baking?
Kai: Queen
Lucie: I always have to listen to what Kai’s listening to.

 

A recipe anyone can accomplish?
Kai: A fried egg.
Lucie: No, I don’t think frying an egg is easy at all. But I’ve got Kai to do that.

 

How does one get you wrapped around one’s finger?
Kai: Kringelwurst (curled sausage on a stick)
Lucie: I’m not that easy.

 

Your greatest masterpiece yet?
Kai: Opening JUBEL.
Lucie: JUBEL!

 

Which forbidden thing would you like to do, if you knew you weren’t going to get caught?
Kai: Get locked up in an amusement park at night.
Lucie: Spend a night with friends in the gourmet food department.

 

What is the current wallpaper on your mobile?
Kai: My moped.
Lucie: I’ve been meaning to change it for a long time…

 

For which famous person would you like to bake a birthday cake?
Kai: Rainer Calmund
Lucie: I can’t bake.

 

What do butterflies have in their tummies when they’re in love?
Kai: Confetti.
Lucie: Pop rocks.

 

What would you cook for us if we visited you at home?
Kai: I know a good Italian place.
Lucie: My boyfriend does the cooking.

 

What are you afraid of?
Kai: That I might not gain power over the world after all.
Lucie: Death.

 

When was the last time you did something for the first time and what was it?
Kai: Firing a confetti-cannon inside my apartment.
Lucie: Trying the Italian restaurant Kai recommended.

 

What should no one know about you?
Kai: Exactly that.
Lucie: Which wallpaper I have on my mobile.

 

Which question should we have asked?
Kai: Whether or not I like questionnaires… :-)
Lucie: The most frequently asked question: How do you manage to stay so skinny with all those cakes around?

 

Last Words:
Kai: All good things come to an end.
Lucie: Nuff said!

 

Foto: Caroline Prange

 

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Kategorien: People | Autor: | Datum: 11. September 2015 | Tags: , , |  Keine Kommentare

Stovecat

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Stovecat

Patricia’s birthday presents are the best. They’re sweet, small, and so yummy. Patricia is the Ofenkatze (stovecat) and to make a long story short: she makes the best Mini-Gugelhupf in the world. She’s not officially allowed to call them that, because­ – of course – in Good Old Germany, there are rules and regulations for that as well: only a cake made with a leavened dough is allowed to be called a Guglhupf. If you ask us, as long as it tastes good we don’t really care what it’s called. But speaking of names, we’d like to add this much: unconfirmed sources have said, that in Vorarlberg, Austria, the shape of a Guglhupf reminds people of a cat curled up in front of the stove – hence the name Ofenkatze. Good to know. Patricia inherited her passion for lovely cakes from her grandmother. Every Sunday, after Spaetzle and the like, she’d bake a marble cake to die for – in a traditional Gugelhupf baking tin, of course. A memory that stuck! Since February 13th, the Ofenkatze bakes her Mini Bundt Cakes (that’s what the little marvels are now called officially) at Fräulein Bükers at Stephanstraße 24 in Berlin Moabit. You can buy them there on weekends; apart from that everything is baked to order so far. So if you’re looking for a delicious little gift or just want something to nosh yourself, send an email to patricia@ofenkatze.com. You can choose for example from lemon cake, chocolate and hazelnut brittle, raspberry buttermilk with white chocolate and many more. And especially for Easter, there’s carrot cake and eggnog-chocolate chip. At the moment, deliveries are only possible within Berlin. To those of you with a particularly sweet tooth: we’re giving away a sample set of 9 minis with the flavours above. So lick your lips Berliners and send an email with the subject “WIR SIND GERÜHRT“ to hurra@muxmaeuschenwild.de.
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Ofenkatze Mini Bundt Cakes | Facebook

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Kategorien: Products | Autor: | Datum: 01. April 2015 | Tags: , , , , , |  Keine Kommentare