Une blanquette de veau

a recipe by fredji powell

Where are you from?

I come from France, my father is american and my mother is french.

Why did you come to Berlin?

I lived in Barcelona before for long time and i learned german there, after the spanish language, and somewhen I wanted to speak the leanguage, to go there where german is spoken, and Berlin because it sounded romantic.

Which food can you not find in Berlin from your country ?

Well, I didn't really have the impression that there is or there isn't a particular food,

I never really made myself this question. I cook myself very much.At home we have always eaten very mixed, american mixed with french, a lot of chinese... When I miss something for example a good quiche or something like that then I cook it myself and the ingredients for it are easy to find.

What is your favourite recipe form your country?

Th quiche, you can throw everything inside it, and it's always delicious with crème fraiche, with eggs and with emmental cheese. The classic quiche is also with diced bacon, then you make a "Pâte brisée", it' like a dough, and then it can be with vegetables or meat, you can eat it cold, warm, it is always delicious.

Did you cultivate fruit, vegetables, herbs in your country?

Well I am really grown up in the countryside until 17 years old.

There we always planted carrots, salads, and vegetables, but since when I am travelling around I didn't really had the opportunity, this is the first 
garden where I think I will become member and make something.

Do you cultivate fruits, vegetables, herbs  in Berlin?

I would like to grow fruit trees, for example I would like Cherry trees.

What food, herbs or vegetables is used in your country for medicinal purposes?

Well that I know, that there is here as well like sage for throat infection, also for the stomac I think or for digestion, thyme in any case and lavande, from which there is quite a lot in south France and I know that it should be good for calming , for children for example.

Fredji Powell, France, Pyramiden Garten

 

A pumpkin and a pumpkin

a twinning for many others

This article is about an African plant, known as the Ugu, among other names. For other uses, see Ugu (disambiguation).


Telfairia occidentalis 

Telfairia occidentalis is a tropical vine grown in West Africa as a leaf vegetable and for its edible seeds. Common names for the plant include Fluted gourd, Fluted pumpkin, and Ugu.
The plant is a drought-tolerant, dioecious perennial that is usually grown trellised. The young shoots and leaves of the female plant are the main ingredients of a Nigerian soup, edikang ikong. The large (up to 5 cm), dark-red seed is rich in fat and protein, and can be eaten whole, ground into powder for another kind of soup, or made into a fermented porridge. The fruit of the plant is large, weighing up to 13 kg, but inedible.


Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Telfairia
Species: T. occidentalis

Austrian records

austrian frittatensuppe

Giulia: Where are you from?
Susanne: From Austria

G: Why did you come to Berlin?
S: Because in Berlin there are things that there aren't in Austria, yes, personal freedom.

G: Which food (also vegetables, fruit, herbs) from your country do you miss?
S: There is everything here, well mostly soups, this "frittaten"(omelette) soup, but there are Austrian restaurants here.

G: What is your favourite recipe from your country?
S: Frittaten soup, it's a soup, the dough is a little bit like crêpes,than you cut it, very easy, you make it like Palatschinke, it is also Austrian, well Palatschinke means in german Pancake I think, and then this is very easily sliced, but the soup is just delicious, and bevor the soup, the broth is prepared, it lasts quite long.

G: Did you grow any fruit vegetables or herbs in your country?
S: In Vienna there is a farmyard where you could rent a piece,
it costed something but not much, yes, I grew something there.
It was already set, and that was everything, all the vegetables, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, everything that I make here.

G: Do you grow fruits, vegetables, or herbs in Berlin?

S: Yes, cucumbers, all possible herbs, and I try tomatoes.

G: What food, herbs or vegetables is used in your country for medicinal purposes?
S: I can think only to camomille.

G: What do you like to eat to feel better/happy when you are ill?
S: Citrus fruits, oranges, lemons with a lot of vitamin C.

Thank you!

 

Susanne Eybl, Österreich, Ton Steine Gaeten

Prinzessinnengarten

Other students and I with my family opened this place in July 2009. I wanted to become a father and have a job where I had not to work too much and could bring my kids with me. So, after living few years in Cuba, that has a very intense model of urban agricolture, I tried to do quite the same in Berlin. We cultivate all the different kind of vegetables you find in the supermarkets, but we use organic seeds to show our children how they grow and how better they are. Then we try to have a huge variety of kind for each vegetable. So we have 15 kinds of potatoes, 20 different kinds of tomatoes, 7 different kinds of carrots, 25 different kinds of ments, and some exotic things like 6 cm long beans from Africa. Some of the old women got cultural connections growing vegetables when they where young in Russia or Turkey or somewhere else. They have brought seeds or even plants with them from there, which they knew from their past, and which they wanted to have here as kind of piece of home. Many people have Turkish, Danish, French, American, English, Palestinian, Arabic, Indian, Swedish or Iraq ancestors. We have a very open system, so you do not have to become a member to partecipate.

Robert Shaw, British-German

In Germany we are not aloud to cultivate and sell herbs for medical purpose, so we do not cultivate any kind of these but we have got some things which are more for health. If you got a cough you can take a thyme tea or we have healing plants like comfrey.

Robert Shaw, English-German

Indigenuous people use some bushes for their health, but I do not know them. The same for our Chineses immigrants that have many traditional medicines using plants. However when I am sick I take fresh honey, ginger and garlic. They make me feel better.

Emma Rugg, Australian

We have rugbrød that is a very dark bread which is very healty because it is rich in whole grain and dietary fiber and contain little or no sugar, and is thus considered by many Danes as a healthy alternative to whiter types of bread. I never tried to bake it myself because it is a very long process, but my father does and it is always nice to come home and have the homemade smørrebred.

Ida Davidsen, Dane

I could find mangos in Berlin or kiwi from New Zeland, however they are not very fresh and it's not very good for the enviroment to buy foods that have been travelling half the world. So I do not like to buy them.

Emma Rugg, Australian

There is a popular Australian story that became a cartoon where a little koala - Blinky Bill - eats leaves from eucalyptus trees and these leaves have some medicinal benefits as his appendix can neutralise the toxins of the plants.

Emma Rugg, Australian

Prinzessinnengarten

dish of the day | a fresh beetroot salad!

recibe by Irene Roman

Foreign residents in Berlin 2010

berlin city map

184.702 | Sonstiges Europa

149.726 | Europäische Union

66.552  | Asien 

25.132  | Amerika
17.089  | Afrika 

12.564  | Staatenlos, ungeklärt, ohne Angabe 

2041    | Australien und Ozeanien

1. Turkey (104.556) 2. Poland (40.988) 3. Serbia (19.230) 4. Italy (15.842) 5. Russia (15.332) 6. France (13.262) 7. Vietnam (13.199) 8. the United States (12.733) 9. Bosnia and Herzegovina (10.198) 10. the United Kingdom (10.191) 11. Croatia (10.104) 12. Bulgarien (9.998) 13. Österreich (9.246) 14. Griechenland (9.301) 15. Ukraine (8.324) 16.Libanon (7.078) 17. Spanien (7.670) 18. China (5.632) 19. Thailand (5.037) 20. Rumänien (5.024) 21. Mazedonien (4.729) 22. Schweiz (4.184) 23. Niederlande (4.041)... 


http://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/

A tipical recipe from Nigeria

What I love most from my country is ekpan-nkukwo, it is a sort of pudding made of cocoyam, fish, meat or whatever cooked for a long time... when I am home sick I always have it!

And when I have a cold or simply the weather is cold, I take a pepe soup. Black pepper leaves are very aromatic and healthy and make you warmer, we use simple methods.

Vegetagles, vegetable, vegetables!!!

Susann, Nigerian, Rosenduft Garden

The women of the Rosenduft Gaerten

going to rosenduft gaerten

the new season

small steams

the women

I arrived as a refugee in Berlin from Bosnia in 1995, because of the war. In my country I had a very big garden where I cultivated a lot of vegetables, I am fond of them! Indeed I really love Sataras, that is mixed vegetables, just vegetables. Moreover we use many of them for medicinal purposes: peppermint for istance and also roots, many different ones. Also parseley is used, it’s very good, dried to drink, it’s also good for bladder. However when I am ill what feel me better it is just börek! We eat a lot but many different sorts, here it’s known just with cheese and meat, but we have it also with potatoes, pumpkin, with all possible.

Almira-Ada, Bosnian 

cultivating

the new plants

the women

great efforts!

I had to leave my country when I was 16 because of the war. There I helped my parents in the garden and we had almost everything: cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, parsley, carrots... here in berlin I have my own garden and I do not miss any ingredient because, coming from an European country, on gardenplants, ist almost the same as in Germany.

Seka, Bosnian

planting seeds

rosenduft gaerten

 

I come from the very southest part of Nigeria and arrived in Germany five years ago, actually when I met my husband. He is from Berlin. And since when I arrived here I missed nature, because here we are so far from it! In my country instead - even if I grew up in a big city - nature was much closer  (even the moon, that was so bright) and when I came back to my village, every family used to have its own farm or fish. In our garden we cultivated a lot of vegetables, they are very common in the South and we ate a lot! The most popular we had a sort of "fluted pumpkin" but it is very different from yours and very healthy and nutritious. The Igbos call it ugu but we (the Efiks) call it ikong, I do not know the botanical name... Unfortunately I can find it just in one or two shops here in Berlin, but it is too expensive and too dried. So I have tried to bring some seeds from my town and I planted here. They grew up, but they were not so good because of the weather. In fact, also in Nigeria it grows just in the South because it needs humid soil.

Susann, Nigerian

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/berlin/berlin-kreuzberg-rosenduft

http://www.suedost-ev.de/interkultureller_garten/interkultureller_garten.php

Cultivations at kga in Treptow

Bezirksverband der Gartenfreunde Berlin-Treptow e.V. from S-bahn

woman: You wanted to do some research... It’s best to arrange an appointment with Mr. Landgraf, he is here on tuesdays, but could you please call the office beforehand...

giulia: Can you help me with some general questions, please?

woman: I can only answer questions about plots, in terms of allocation.

giulia: Fine, what’s being cultivated in a plot?

woman: Plots are always being cultivated. Gardening is the key purpose of allotments. The main concern is cultivating fruits and vegetables. You need to grow fruits etc. for your personal use. However, as I said, Mr. Landgraf is the right person to speak to, he also works here, but is currently out of office. He is the Chairman of e.V. Treptow.

giulia: Do you also have an allotment?

woman: Yes of course, I have an allotment in Treptow.

giulia: And what do you cultivate?

woman: What do we cultivate... the majority makes potatoes, soft fruits, strawberries etc..

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Ilona Gross: All herbs, basil, parsley, chives, marjoram, ground herb and as first thing green beans are inserted, green beens are made a lot. When they are inserted, it depends on how warm it is, end of April or beginning of May. Kohlrabi plants are grown with seeds in greenhouse, than the small plants are planted end of april, beginning of may. Tomatoes, carrots, all kind of vegetables, peppers, zucchini.

giulia: How are herbs used?

ilona: Yes herbs, for example, parsley for almost all dishes, and for soups, ground herb for green beans soup, it’s important.

giulia: Is there anything special for health?

ilona: Yes, garlic is for health.

giulia: Do you have your own parcel?

ilona: Yes I do.

giulia: What do you cultivate?

ilona: Everything I said, basil also as spice. And important is savory.

giulia: What is savory?

ilona: It smells like green beans, it’s very powerful, that must be used otherwise food doesn’t taste.

giulia: do you have a recipe?

ilona: I made a book actually. It has been made from women in the allotment garden unit Waldland.

It’s collected recipes.

Many allotment holder make themselves a spice garden, a raised bed, and there they make their spice garden. When they can not bend themselves anymore they make raised beds.

giulia: Asparagus time?

ilona: It’s always just until june, end of april until june. But asparagus is difficult to grow, just few gardners do it. Broccoli and cauliflower is the easiest. And what more…

Celery is very healthy, do you know celery? It’s round and black. And what we also make is salad with vinaigrette sauce, that is sweet sour spicy. Celery and also one makes beetroot, beetroot is very healthy. And they are also washed and cooked in salt and water and of course with sugar, vinegar, and pepper.

giulia: Why is it healthy?

ilona: Yes, for blood, hematopoiesis. One ha salso to read this again but I now from granny and my mom that this is healty.

giulia: Is there a tradition for vegetables in berlin?

ilona: Yes, pumpkin for example exactly, for soups, for kompottes, it is boiled down…

giulia: Kompotte?

ilona: Yes it’s called kompotte. Chopped Pumpkin , for dessert  or one can eat it with meat dishes or the pumpkin soup as appetizer, it’s very good. I give you my book as a present, here you see some dishes...

giulia: What is from you?

ilona: A lot, there is my name here, but these are collected recipes, that one can make also at home. For example  stuffed zucchini are made a lot, or vegetables onions, vegetable cake, stuffed kohlrabi...

giulia: Thank you very much!

ilona: Yes, with pleasure!