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Panzanella!

Pic by Franzi. Here comes one of the many dishes we prepared during the last two weeks on our summer vacations. This one is an Italian classic: Panzanella! It’s easy to prepare (but needs some time to marinate) and tastes like a day in Tuscany! Recipe: Serves 4. Ingredients: 2 loaves of one day old

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Papermeals!

The culinary animation series PAPERMEALS by the Australian production studio yelldesign presents in short clips the preparation of a dish like Ramen or penne with meatballs… and now comes the fun part: everything is made out of paper!! The meatballs, their ingredients, everything. Worth watching – and there are also more papermeals available at vimeo :).

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A Song For Tuesday: Bottom of the Barrel by the Forlorn Strangers!

The music of the Nashville-based band Forlorn Strangers got me instantly. It’s acoustic country-indie kind of sound fits perfectly to those (slightly rainy) summer days on the sea. Their first album just came out. Today’s song Bottom of the Barrel is the first single from it. Have fun listening! Like always: All credits appear after

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The Books I’ve Read: Unter dem Moskitonetz // Under the Mosquito Net by Elizabeth Dunkel!

Pic by Franzi. Since Elizabeth Dunkel’s 1980s novel Every Women Loves a Russian Poet is one of my favorite books, I had to read her second novel Under the Mosquito Net as well. Again, the story is about a single woman: Maia Rose is a successful beauty editor living in New York. She seems to

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