The last couple of months I’ve been working on the dessert menu for a restaurant, La Coccinella within the VW complex Autostadt in Germany. The concept of the restaurant is in house made fresh pasta with delicious cakes baked fresh every day. It’s been a change from the Christmas pâtisserie concept I’ve worked on for the last four years (although that’s coming up very soon).
VW Kraftwerk
For the past three years instead of migrating somewhere warm for Winter I head off to cold (the second year temperatures dropped to -20) and snowy Wolfsburg a.k.a. VW ville (as I call it). VW has it’s headquarters, factory and Autostadt (= car city) in the town of Wolfsburg which is situated an hour train ride from Berlin or half an hour from Hannover.
Tags: Autostadt, Christmas market, VW, Wintermarkt, Wolfsburg
I headed off to Milano last week to bake some sweet ‘Morrocan’ treats. The sights, sounds and Morrocan cookery classes I discovered in Marrakesh in June came in handy. Instead of shopping at Armani or Prada I went trapsing around the rather unusual Milanese neighbourhoods in the search Rosewater, Orange flower water and other essential ingredients for the cakes.
Tags: milan, morrocan pâtisserie
I had to come up with a little more then Lucky strike cigarettes and alcohol for a Madmen dinner I had been asked to organise for the girls of mylittleparis. I had done a similar style event last year at the Cha cha but this one was a lot more fun as it was a more intimate event which meant I had time to add my own little signature touches.
Tags: 60s, beef wellington, cheesecake, dinner, lucky strike, madmen, mylittleparis.com, theme
There were no sausages on this menu which explored the East/West divide in Germany. Fellow foodie Caroline Hobkinson and I got cooking in her amazing Berlin kitchen. Dishing up two different menus (one East, one West). Each representing their relevant culinary history. Guests on arrival were assigned their sides for the nights. They bartered, they smuggled and some sneekily stole from the opposite side to get a taster of the forbidden food.
Tags: berlin, food design, the wall, underground
