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Eating French food with Parisian pop band Destin
Wednesday, 8.30 pm. I’m out for dinner at Pipos restaurant in the fifth arrondissement of the French capital with my good friends Marky and Louis Georget - or should I say, Destin. This new Parisian group are not only proponents of great European music, but also partial to some great French food
Supermarket sweep Athens, or not keeping appearances during a crisis
Her country was degraded, mocked, despised, then forgotten. What does it mean for 25-year-old student Katerina Tzekouand and Costa Andreotis, who works in a museum, to live with the crisis in Athens today?
Crisis cookbook: recipes for starving Greeks
Historian Eleni Nikolaidou didn't mean Starvation Recipes to come out as a cookbook, but these times of crisis have turned a collection of historical recipes from the era of nazi German occupation in Greece into a bestseller
eat, recipe, germany, greece, books, yum nyam, national socialism
Seadas or sebadas: how to make Sardinian cheese pastry
Originally simple dishes of rural origin, 'sebadas' or 'seadas' have been given a new identity and today are served as a dessert. This is the brief story of a Sardinian delicacy whose roots are buried deep in the ancient rustic tradition
eat, sebadas, italy, sardinia, cooking, traditions, yum nyam
Nantes students eat on one euro
When doing their weekly food shop in the local supermarket, financial difficulties mean students don’t even consider buying dairy products, fruit and vegetables, meat, dried products or tinned goods, all part of a balanced diet. However these goods are sold for a token one euro (88p) at the French student solidarity association market in the western French city for the past decade
eat, money, nantes, solidarity, students, lifestyle, precarity
Vegetarianism: 'Eating Animals' in Europe
Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2009 novel, published in March 2010 in the UK, has just been released in German. The 33-year-old American has fast become the new vegetarian messiah. While it reached the top three of the Der Spiegel bestseller list, only 1.3 million Germans follow a vegetarian diet, a mere 1.6% of the population
eat, european union, lifestyle, vegetables, germany, meat, culture calendar
British ‘tea’ vs German ‘coffee-and-cake’ Sundays
A typical German family spends their afternoons at the coffee table rather than in front of the box (though there might be one on in the background). Germany’s ‘Kaffeeundkuchen’ culture is a veritable institution, not an empirical trace
Zapiekanka: not a Polish kebab
2 am in Kazimierz, a Jewish district in Krakow. Dozens line the windows remotely dotting a circular building, Okrąglak (‘Rotunda’), in the centre of Plac Nowy (‘New Square’). It's Zapiekanka time, though only the locals know which window serves the best of this baked baguette snack
A brief history: döner kebab, fair ambassador to Turkey?
One of the most popular late night snacks in Europe is the flag bearer of Turkish cuisine outside of Turkey. Is this a source of pride or sorrow for the Turks? Plus, a recipe for green beans in olive oil
eat, recipe, stamboul, cooking, central and eastern europe, kebab, traditions
Recap: 'Brigitte', Germany's approach to 'normal' models
No-one wants to see big girls, according to fashion tsar Karl Lagerfeld, a vehement defender of the Size Zero Model. While all of Europe discusses the dress sizes of the fashion world, the German women’s magazine Brigitte has turned the whole question on its head with their new ‘Initiative Ohne Models’ (Initiative: No Models), where its the readers who get to try on the haute couture
eat, clothing, fashion week, anorexia, lifestyle, health, germany
