Strange food discovery

Yesterday on my way home I was starving and not motivated to cook at home so I stopped by a pizzeria to get a pizza to take home. While waiting for my pizza I skimmed through  Globetrotter magazine and found this: A Cheeseburger in a can that is meant to be trekking food. You prepare it by heating the can in water. Burger is ready! I instantly ripped the tiny article off the magazine and decided to blog about this kind of really disgusting food today.  Would you eat this? I definitely won’t. I enjoy eating and will never eat this kind of industrial food. (For Germans: It’s fun to read the clients opinions about this product on the globetrotter website)

PS: I am sorry for not blogging yesterday. I was offline the whole day because our computer decided to be on strike. Instead I cleaned windows, tided up etc. the whole day. Today I brought my laptop from home

(pic from Globetrotter, linked to its source)

Private Plate. 3rd Edition – Preparations

Today is the day. Private Plates Edition 3 is taking place this evening. I sepnd my day at the shop and prepare everything here and Katrin is preparing the food.  See here some colourful pics of the food preparations (because tidying up the shop is not that spectacular).

Apparnetly there will be red food. I am curious what Katrin is preparing!! Hmmm…Yummie!

(pics from Marsupialia)

Private Plates. Second Edition

Yesterday was a big day for Beuteltiere: the second edition of Private Plates (see first edition here). We invited again some guests to come to our shop to better get to know them and to connect the guests with each other during a nice dinner cooked by Katrin. This time there were eight people who work in different fields.

Here a quick introduction:

Jenny Brosinski, illustrator and artist

Michael Bartos, developper for online-shops

Hans Enz, owner of a wine shop called Weinwinkel in Dunckerstraße

Alexander Bothe, shoe and bag designer

Doro Martin, founding a new publishing company (she is blogging as well and already wrote about Private Plates this morning)

Melanie Rosenthal, lightning architect

I hope everybody enjoyed the evening as much as I did. And thanks Katrin for the great food.

If you want to come on our list to take part in one of the following Private Plates dinner, please write a comment! There participants will be chosen by the lot.

(pics from Marsupialia)

Private Plates

All the preparations from yesterday were worth it! We had a great evening yesterday: fantastic food made by Katrin, fantastic wine (from Hans: our favourite wine-dealer, Weinwinkel, in Dunckerstraße 2A) and of course fantastic guests. All at the Beuteltiere shop!

People entering the table, starter (lens salad with melon, walnuts and rucola) already served.

”Private Plate’  guests have been:

Robert Strack, director of a big printing company here in Berlin

Daniela Dietel, a goldsmith and jewelery designer, who is planning to open her own atelier

Rudie Ewals and Jeannine van Erk, two dutch women who are having a product and interior design business togehter called Bel+Bo and who are planning to do their own design hotel in Berlin called Deutsch-Niederländische-Freundschaft

Tim Adler, photographer

Detelef Eden, art director

Katie, owner of Cereals No. 29 natural deli (she brought some of her delicious bread), a shop next to us

Karim Zerougui, he wants to set up a meeting, eating, drinking place in Berlin

and of course the Beuteltiere Katrin and Barbara.

Enjoying the main course (spinach dumplings with parmesan and sage-butter).

So we were quite a mixed round of  people in different ages, but all of them are self-employed or plan to open their own business. During food breaks people presented us what they re doing and what they are planning to do in future: hey all showed us about their work. We are all very curious how all these people and their businesses will develop in future.

The end. No more food left. Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures of the fantastic desert: Home-made panna cotta with hot abricots.

(pics from Marsupialia)

Today is a big day…

We are preparing our “Private Plates” evening. Well, you won’t know what “Private Plates” is.  We invited 8 different people (some of them we knew before, others not) to have dinner together in our shop and all these people including us present what they are doing, what projects they are planning. So it’s a kind of networking evening in small size of 10 people.

Katrin is at home preparing the food for tonight and I am cleaning glasses, tidying up the shop, putting drinks in the fridge …

We are curious to meet all the people tonight and curious to see the pedestrians outside wondering what is happening in there.

Supper Salon

Last week  I was invited to go to the supper salon: a dinner with a group of about 10 creative people who present their work to each other. All this is initiated by a girl from London called Rebbecca. During the dinner I found out that she is actually working on fantastic wallpapers called Tactilewonderland.

(pic from Rebbecca Otero)

At first I hesitated a bit to go there, but finally I did it and it was great. While eating or between eating (all the delicious food was self-made by Rebecca and some friends by the way) all the people presented their work. There were some artists, a web developer who writes a novel, a girl trained in PR and Marketing, a danish girl working for a film project, an architect, Frank and C.R.,two bloggers from IheartBerlin…  all different kinds of creative people from all over Europe mainly from UK.  We discussed ideas and projects together in a very relaxed atmosphere.

(pics from Marsupialia)

Mutterland shop interieur

Today I’d like to talk to you about a very interesting shop in Hamburg, that I found in Wallpaper magazine (sorry, I can’t remember the issue any more) a few months ago: ‘Mutterland‘. I kept this article because I was impressed by the simplicity of the shop interior as well as the quality of the packaging. Nice inspirations for our own shop!‘Mutterland‘ (in English: mother country) is a shop where you can buy original German organic food, such as marmalades or grandmothers cakes … and a lot more.

Look at their great flee-market-style interior:

And now the best: their lovely gift packaging! A textile label stitched to a brown paper bag. How cute!

For sure I will go there next time I am in Hamburg.

(pics from http://www.mutterland.de and wallpaper magazine)