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Leslie's watermelon gazpacho
How are you keeping a cool head in these heat waves? I eat watermelon. And drink cold soup. Then I thought, why not do both at the same time? So, I melded recipes from a few favorite cookbooks and created my own spin on watermelon gazpacho. It’s been far too long since I’ve shared a recipe on my website (years!), so when Eva of Neukölln Zwei Null asked me for this recipe, I decided to go for it. Hope you enjoy this soup as much as do, and stay cool!
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Leslie’s watermelon gazpacho
How are you keeping a cool head in these heat waves? I eat watermelon. And drink cold soup. Then I thought, why not do both at the same time? So, I melded recipes from a few favorite cookbooks and created my own spin on watermelon gazpacho. It’s been far too long since I’ve shared a recipe on my website (years!), so when Eva of Neukölln Zwei Null asked me for this recipe, I decided to go for it. Hope you enjoy this soup as much as do, and stay cool!
Mobile kitchen
Imagine taking your kitchen for a road trip. Two small burners, a spice rack, a sink with a bottle each of dish detergent and Club Maté nestled inside, what more would you need for a mobile cooking session?
I peeked in this VW van window in Rudolfkiez, Berlin-Friedrichshain, near my studio.
Peter Silie Schnitt Lauch Dill
The covers are cheery copy-shop paper in bright parsley green and deep carrot orange. The binding is a simple white rubber band. These boldly typeset little pamphlets introduce three herbs and three root vegetables, respectively: Parsley, chives, dill, beets, celery root and carrot.
I've painted the walls!
While waiting for my burrito amidst the colorful cartoon murals of Friedrichshain’s No Hablo Español, I realized that a little masked figure, painted to match the purple characters on the walls, was trying to get my attention. “Do you like what you see?” he was asking. “I’ve painted the walls.”
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I’ve painted the walls!
While waiting for my burrito amidst the colorful cartoon murals of Friedrichshain’s No Hablo Español, I realized that a little masked figure, painted to match the purple characters on the walls, was trying to get my attention. “Do you like what you see?” he was asking. “I’ve painted the walls.”
Poster tunneling
Is this street art or the beginning of a cleanup effort? On Monday, I stopped halfway across Warschauer Brücke to investigate this tunnel cut through hundreds of old wallpaper-pasted posters, almost elbow deep.
Free books
Books for free! What could be better? This relic of East Germany struck me as particularly poignant, not just the sweet composition of crayon-colored triangles typical of DDR graphic design, but the content — presented as a general language guide for tourists, it features just Bulgarian, Romanian, and Hungarian. Within the East Bloc, there weren’t all that many travel options.
Are there free books to be had in your neighborhood? Have you found any treasures?
Mixed doubles
Half repellent, half awesome. Sweet, sticky, sherbet-colored, summery, sloppily pasted and in-your face. What more could you want from a poster? How about double the fun?
I found these twin posters for a Sophiensaele event (translated title: Mixed Doubles, Dance Performance Summerhits!) at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The Sophiensaele are famous for their incredible graphics; the current designers are Grygoriew + Himmelspach.
