January. The month when diets & detox get promoted the most…on TV, in magazines, on the internet. I personally don’t believe in extreme diets. Whenever I tried to entirely avoid sugar, fats & carbs in the past I couldn’t stop thinking and longing for exactly that: sugar, fats & carbs. Fortunately I am blessed with
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I recently wrote about my new found love for fennel. The thing with a brand new “love” is: you can’t get enough of it. The challenge is to satisfy your longing but not lose interest after a while. So you have to keep it interesting and diversified. And yes…I am still talking about food 😉
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We all long for homely warmth when it is cold and unpleasant outside. Don’t we? But sometimes the heat that comes from a radiator or a thick jumper doesn’t do the job to our full satisfaction. Sometimes we need some warmth that goes deeper…all the way into our tummies to warm us up from the
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My next DINE STAR is a beautiful blonde with a distinctive voice and überhits like “Lights”, “Burn”, “Love Me Like You Do” and “On My Mind”: ELLIE GOULDING I remember a comment a fan once wrote on one of her first videos on YouTube: “Hey Ellie, I like this voice effect you use. What is
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There is this “problem” you will have when meeting my next DINE STAR: You will lose a piece of your heart to… THE COMMON LINNETS I lost a piece of mine to them the first time I worked with Ilse and JB. This was almost a year ago at the “Radio Regenbogen Award”. They were
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These days more and more people decide to go vegan. I’ve thought about it a lot in the past few months and asked myself if I could do it. The answer is: yes, of course I could. Everybody can! The question is: do I want to? I gotta be honest: I don’t! I already gave
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There are  artists…and there are ARTISTS! The ones that enter a room and fill it with their presence. And then they start to sing and you know that they will make it big. And if they don’t something must be really wrong with the people out there. One of these artists written in capital letters
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Fish and seafood are one of my favourite ingredients. I went fishing with a family friend when I was about 8 years old and was shown how to kill, clean and scale a fish. Quite a shocking experience to be honest but in a weird way it helped me to cherish life even more, eat
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This is such a great, healthy and light dish for a hot summer’s day. My friends gave me this weird kinda look when I first talked about this soup. ‘YUCK, watermelon in a soup? This can’t be right.’ Oh YES, this is VERY RIGHT. And they agreed after they tried. Well, let me know what
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