http://www.foodandfootage.com Musings on the Culinary and Cinematic World with plenty of room for the Tangential Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:24:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little shameless self-promotion for you on this cold and rainy August day. I recently began working for the NPR station here in Berlin as a food-blogger. About twice a month, you can look forward to my insights on food and drink life in Berlin. I began with a short piece ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=174   From the New York Times article; What is it About 20-Somethings? "The 20s are a black box, and there is a lot of churning in there. One-third of people in their 20s move to a new residence every year. Forty percent move back home with their parents at least ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=172 I have wanted to visit Sweden since I was a kid and I finally made it on the coat-tails of a program called Paideia: Project Incubator. The program invites applicants from all over Europe to take their Jewish centered projects and bring them closer to fruition through the help of ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=165 So Spain won the World Cup. Spain, the country with no lyrics to their national anthem....how weak is that? What do the Spanish do when their country is war torn and they need to boost morale? Hum to each other. Sorry if I seem a little cranky. It's probably because it's ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=161 Recently I did an interview with my friend, the wine critic Stuart Pigott about summer wines and his recommendations for cheap bottles. This is the fourth article I've written for EXBERLINER and I was really annoyed to find that the article was printed without a byline. Not only was my ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=160 Our friend from DC came to visit and I asked, as always, for the two things that I constantly crave but can't find in Germany: Red Vines and Advil. Usually someone brings me the 32 vine pack but this time I received the gift that keeps on giving, the 4lb, ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=158 I recently came across this undertaking by Salon advice columnist Carry Tennis, How I Became a Pothead, where he tries to give a personal account of his relationship with the drug and in doing so, to poke at the larger questions of politics and legality surrounding it. It's hard to ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=156 When I was growing up in a female dominated household in LA, the shower was always a buffet of choices. At any given time there were at least 5 different shampoos, 6 conditioners (usually a couple of deep conditioners thrown in there as well), 5 different body-washes, 3 scrubs, 4 ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=154 Sometimes I feel like I write about things that suggest my lifestyle is more affluent than it actually is. The truth is, on a daily basis I get excited about very cheap thrills. 1) Today I found out that the little Indian grocer I go to on Falckenstein Strasse was having ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=153 That is Miranda, the teen ingénue of Picnic at Hanging Rock. I look at her and all I can think is thank god I didn't see this film when I was a chubby awkward 14 year-old, because her look would definitely have spawned an obsessive copy-cat impulse in me. From ... http://www.foodandfootage.com/?p=152