“I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.”
Denis Leary
Scissors Fiskars X iitalia
How can you tell that you’ve finally grown up? The fact that people are more enthusiastic about cooking utensils than the latest off-the-peg fashions. These scissors from Fiskars for iitalia are the kind of thing that will make your eyes light up when you’re chopping and are guaranteed to attract everyone’s attention in the kitchen – especially handy when your cooking skills still give you a hint that your adolescence is still fresh. Fiskars X iitalia, “Oiva Toikka Collection”, scissors, 21 cm, approx. 28.-
French fries are not vegetables
In fact, it is not simply due to ignorance that many people in Germany still consume far too few vegetables than the communicated nutritional guidelines suggest. Everyone should eat 400 grams of healthy greens a day – an impossibility for many people whose wallets only allow for packet sauce and pasta pronta. 31 percent of respondents to a survey by Swedish salad bar Picadeli said they would eat more vegetables if tomatoes, cucumbers and the like were cheaper. A fact that must give us pause for thought, especially in times of cheap meat and 1-euro burgers.
Splendido as a book
Italian food is more than just Spaghetti Napoli and Pizza Margherita. Mercedes Lauenstein and Juri Gottschall pan for their online magazine Splendido and show us what’s sizzling in Nonna and Nonno’s cooking pots. What brings joy online brings even more cheers offline: the two are now publishing their best recipes and favorite dishes in book form. This will please haptics fans and print fanatics, but also anyone who hates getting their fingers dirty on their cell phone screen while cooking. Quantities? No way, Lauenstein and Gottschall are like Nonna. It’s much more about understanding good food and not forgetting your own taste when cooking it. Mercedes Lauenstein & Juri Gottschall, “Splendido. Italian cooking with the best ingredients and a lot of feeling”, DuMont, approx. 43.-
Chipmunk’s Favorites – nut mixes from 2DiE4
The minute hand drags sluggishly from one index to the next, the afternoon just won’t go by, and somehow we need a bite to eat again anyway. Reaching for the bar is tempting, but there is a better way. Nuts are always a good snack, and those from 2DiE4 are particularly digestible. How so? The Bavarian brand soaks almonds, walnuts or pistachios in a spring water and sea salt solution and then dries them gently. This maximizes the crunch and ensures the maximum amount of nutrients. This is good for the body and even better for the brain, which thanks to these nut mixes never thinks about Snickers and the like again. 2DiE4, various nuts and mixes, 100 g, from approx. 11.-
