Goodbye Peter Klann

My friend Peter Klann, baker extraordinaire, died on March 28. I met him in spring 2002 while working on an article about oil. At the time he was operating a tiny artisan oil mill an hour from Berlin. When I went to see him to learn more (and taste his fantastic products from walnuts, linseed, peanuts, nigella, poppy seed and much more) he told me that his real interest, his soul, was in bread. And we actually met again two years later when bread had reclaimed him and became very good friends. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese people: Manuela and Norbert from Kaeskuche

This category needs a kickstart! It’s not that I’m too lazy to work on it, honest, just so many other things to do all the time… But the Bavarian superteam from Kaeskuche who courageously export Alpine cheesy stuff to the States, England, Singapore and Dubai are absolutely the first in line to be written about. » Weiterlesen…