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Hello Gillian, welcome at DC. Joe

I loved the Nero Wolfe TV show starring William Conrad.:smile:

Enlightening Hi, I'd never thought there were so many novels about cooks and cooking ... already. :ohmy:

I just tried to modify my profile here...

German cooks, not German cookery Hello @ll, "German" restaurants in the USA are something I know only from documentary films about Disneyworld and ... the TV comedy show "Chuck". :ermm: I know no professional German cook who is really into that kind of cookery. There are indeed very German...

Schulz Hi, the name is Schulz. (That's actually my real name too. "Banneke" is my nom de plume)

I think German cooks are very opportunistic. They are usually ashamed of German cooking traditions. I also expect that in a kitchen it is more important what you can do with your hands than what you sound like.

Some time ago there was apparently a great demand for German cooks in the UK, in Australia and Canada. Yet some years ago when I worked in an International call centre I met many chefs who had returned from these countries. Instead of cooking abroad they worked for less money on the phone for...

In Germany there are institutions that go and collect food from supermarkets in order to give it to paupers. They get food of which the sell-by date is expired. The institutions who pass this food on are called "Tafelrunde(n)" (the German translation of "Round Table") There are many poor people...

Babette's Feast Hello taxlady, yesterday I started reading a new book about J.D. Salinger and that will still take me some days... Right afterwards I'll read the book you've recommended. I see the book has only 54 pages. I was once told by a reknown novelist a story required at least 150...

Sauerkraut beer While I worked in Munich in a "Mexican" restaurant I loved to drink Corona with a slice of lemon. Recently when I was at home I missed that drink and since I couldn't get hold of any Mexican beer I took normal German beer. Then I searched for lemons but couldn't find any...

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I plead guilt for having been a dreamer myself. I was inspired to become a cook when I saw the re-run of a German TV show about an anglophile banker... It was an adaptation of J.M. Simmel's "Es muss nicht immer Kaviear sein". Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein (TV Series 1977– ) - IMDb At the end...

Novels about cooks? Does anybody know novels about cooks? When I think of cooks in novels only Jack London's "Seawolf" comes to mind but there the cook is only a minor bad guy... :sad: Would anybody among you care for a novel about a cook?

Hello, as a German I like my beer pure. Also I know that Frenchmen usually look down on beer. (The last time I saw a Frenchman drinking beer instead of wine he explained that to me by quoting Nietsche: "What doesn't kill me makes me harder.") Recently I learned flavoured beer had become...

Hello, in Germany Velveeta is nearly unknown and those who have heard about it often simply call it "American cheese". Maybe the TTIP will change that... Since you have kindled my interest I checked German websites for receipts. I found some advice on chefkoch.de. According to their forum...

Sushi Hello @ll, according to the author Amy Trubek it was once normal in Europe too that an apprenticeship could take up to nine years. When I was an apprentice in Germany we were always told French and Italian cooks had a kind of patriotic attitude. We were explained that would be good for...

Hello, what I learned people study French or Italian cooking because they consider either the one or the other the best way of cooking at all. I feel it is their firm belief which provides the determination that is required to go through all the trouble to become a great chef. I don't think a...

Has anybody here read Bill Buford's "Heat"? :neutral: A lot of people decide to become cooks because they think a professional cook works like it is shown on TV... Cooking a little, chatting a lot, opening a drawer, showing prepared ingredients, waiting till the cameraman has found the best...

Hello, I heard (and read) in Japan the apprenticeship of a cook lasts for 9 years! :ermm: I couldn't even imagine to be an apprentice for 9 years! In Germany most apprentices quit prematurely although they only need to learn for 3 years... :neutral: A German chef who had worked in Hongkong...