Food blogger Luisa Weiss, also known as The Wednesday Chef, has published her first book, 'My Berlin Kitchen.' Here she answers a few questions from fellow blogger, Caroline Lubbers.
"My Berlin Kitchen" by food blogger Luisa Weiss grew out of her food blog, The Wednesday Chef.
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EnlargeIn 2007, while visiting my friend Mav, she?suggested that I start a blog. ?What would I blog about?? I questioned. ?Food, of course? she replied. Before I left the comfort of her Maine apartment, the name Whipped had popped into my head and I had begun searching the blogosphere to get my feet wet.
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Caroline Lubbers is a mother, wife, business owner and food blogger. Through her consulting company, Goldfish Marketing Communications, she has the pleasure of working with a number of chefs and specialty food companies. In 2007, Caroline launched her blog Whipped to learn more about blogging, to explore new recipes and as an excuse to buy a fancy camera.
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I clicked here and there, drawn in by photos, personable voices and recipes. So many delectable recipes. Some of my early favorites and regular reads were Pinch My Salt, Orangette, and The Wednesday Chef. It was such a new phenomenon to form a relationship with someone you never met. Sometimes e-mails were exchanged, we added links to each other?s sites and occasionally I wondered if we would ever meet in person.?
I?ve always had a particular affinity for Luisa who writes the blog The?Wednesday Chef. As her many followers agree, Luisa?s honest, conversational voice is easy to read. She has a way of expressing and exploring her vulnerabilities that contradictorily leads you to admire her strength. There are some similarities in our lives that always led me to believe we were kindred spirits.
For the past months, I have anxiously awaited Luisa?s new book, My Berlin Kitchen. I was fortunate to receive an advance copy. For a week, I was short on sleep, staying up late to fit in just one or two more chapters.
In her new memoir, Luisa?s approachable style is intact but I think that her writing is even better. She guides us through the chapters of her life, sharing an unusual multi-cultural childhood and the story of a heart-swelling romance. In between, you?ll find heartache, triumph, sadness and discovery. At the end of each chapter, Luisa treats the reader to a recipe that is closely tied to the writing.
Truly, I can?t remember a book that I?ve read in recent years that gave me such warm feelings. Somehow, her stories make you feel hopeful and positive about the human condition, even with its hurdles and heartache. ?I wrote to Luisa to congratulate her and share my excitement about her book. She was gracious enough to entertain some of my interview questions:
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. In your book, you don?t talk much about your breakfast preferences. Does it change depending on what country you are in?
?It does change! When I?m in the States, I eat cereal, because no one does cereal better than Americans do. Grape Nuts, Cheerios, Autumn Harvest, oh man, I love a good bowl of cold cereal. It?s one of the things I miss the most, foodwise, about living in the US. In Italy, I follow my mother?s lead and eat cookies for breakfast, dipped in my hot cup of tea. I don?t love cookies for breakfast ? I can never shake the niggling feeling that I?ve started the day off on the wrong foot, but it?s only a few times a year, so I try to live a little. In Germany, it?s a few slices of dark, seeded bread with butter and honey or jam. And a bowl of nice, sour yogurt. Delicious.
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