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Marie-Louise Crona – Okay Café – new podcast episode

Posted on September 12, 2016January 13, 2017 by Elizabeth

What do we want? CINNAMON BUNS! When do we want them? …Every day at Okay Café except Mondays, #dayoff! As part of my ongoing series documenting the talented women of the Berlin food world, on this latest episode of the Berlin Belly podcast we meet Marie-Louise Crona, aka Makki, chief baker of Okay Café in Neukölln, Berlin!

Listen in to hear how Makki progressed from baking for friends to baking full-time for Okay Café since opening earlier this year – and exactly how many thousand cinnamon buns that means…

Makki steps out of the Okay Café kitchen for a giggle and sunlight break

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Jones Ice-cream on the Berlin Belly Podcast

Posted on March 9, 2016January 13, 2017 by Elizabeth

HI EVERYONE!

Sorrysorrysorry the website and podcast has been quiet over the winter. Berlin winter does that to you. Very excited to be back and with a new episode of the Berlin Belly podcast to share: Gabrielle Jones of Jones ice-cream is our first guest of 2016!

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Katie’s Blue Cat Opens Online

Posted on December 5, 2015January 13, 2017 by Elizabeth

The delightful coffee shop and bakery especially popular for it’s home-made granola and anglo-american style in-house baked goods served up in a beautiful interior – unless I imagined it, I had an amazing moon pie there a long time ago, that I still think about sometimes – is now open for business online, with a beautifully designed new website. Ngoc Duong and Olivia Wood opened Katie’s Blue Cat in Neukölln in 2011.

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Sophia Hoffmann – Podcast Episode 7

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Elizabeth

Episode 7! The Berlin Belly Podcast is back! This week I met up with Sophia Hoffmann at her new office in Blogfabrik: Sophia is a vegan chef, cookbook author (“Sophia’s Vegane Welt”) journalist and food blogger in Berlin. Listen in to Sophia’s insight into being a vegan chef, what she’ll be cooking for vegan Christmas dinner this year, her advice if you’re thinking about switching to vegan food, what it’s like to be part of Blogfabrik in Berlin – and lots more!

You can buy the “Sophia’s Vegane Welt” cookbook and Sophia’s aprons from her website here (German):

Original Unverpackt – Burp Podcast Episode 3

Posted on September 16, 2015September 16, 2015 by Elizabeth

In our third episode, please enjoy my conversation with Milena Glimbovski, founder of Original Unverpackt, an innovative zero-waste supermarket in Kreuzberg, Berlin dedicated to offering locally sourced, organic produce and products. At Original Unverpackt you are encouraged to bring your own containers to fill up on the groceries you need. We like that!

Listen in to hear how exactly the zero-waste philosophy works in a supermarket, what kind of products you can find there, the new projects they’re working on, and insight to starting an innovative business.

Original Unverpackt is celebrating their 1 year anniversary this Saturday September 19th, so stop by and wish them a happy first birthday! More infos in the FB event.

Kombucha Berlin Society – Burp Podcast Episode 1

Posted on August 29, 2015September 2, 2015 by Elizabeth

Burp is the weekly podcast brought to you by Berlin Belly, featuring interviews with interesting people doing exciting things with food and drink in Berlin!

In our first episode we meet Audie and Lucy from Berlin Kombucha Society – a new drinks company based in Berlin offering small-batch seasonal fruit and veggie flavoured kombucha: it’s raw, it’s naturally bubbly, it’s stored in stylishly designed glass flip-top bottles, and it’s likely stocked in a café in your kiez.