Today I would like to introduce you to one of my favourite appetizers – grilled watermelon with goat’s cream cheese, crisp lamb’s lettuce and a honey-carrot thyme dressing. Continue reading Melon with goat cheese
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Bouquet, taste, and textures
A prerequisite for experiencing a culinary firework display – as well as the rat Rémy does in the legendary animated film Ratatouille knew how to make his brother Emile experience it – is the sense of taste and smell.
Of the classical senses such as hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching, smelling – olfactory perception – remains by far the most important and strongest of our senses. Continue reading Bouquet, taste, and textures
Terp Jams
Jams with Tonka Bean and/or Tahitian Vanilla and Terpenes
It doesn’t happen very often that we make jam – but once a year, when our grapes are ripe, the time has come.
Why Terpenes Are Relevant Now
Contextualizing a Silent Sensory Shift
Flavors have always been a central steering tool in the food industry. Sweetness, acidity, bitterness, and umami structure products, markets, and consumption habits. Continue reading Why Terpenes Are Relevant Now
The World of Terpenes
To help you navigate through all the posts without too much hassle, I’ve pinned illustrated & clickable links and “pinned them to the top”—enjoy reading!
Lemon Tonic
Cucumber-Dill Dressing
Lavender-Honey Cream
Tasting Like a Pro – Manresa & Remedios
To capture the full complexity of products like Manresa Honey or Remedios Chocolate, simple tasting is not enough. We use the “3-S Method”: See, Sniff, Melt (Sehen, Schnuppern, Schmelzen). Continue reading Tasting Like a Pro – Manresa & Remedios
Why Terpenes?
Terpenes in the Food Industry: The End of Sensory Boredom
In my introductory post for Mary Jane 2025, I already got you tuned into terpenes and their use in flavoring food and beverages. Now, I want to dive deeper into my motivation behind this topic. Continue reading Why Terpenes?
Mavroudis Olive Oil
Mavroudis Olive Oil is one of the most respected olive oil producers on the globe. Every year, the oils win gold medals and other prizes all over the world – be it Berlin, Athens, London, New York, Canada or even Italy – hardly any other oil makes it to the top places so consistently…and you can taste it! Continue reading Mavroudis Olive Oil
Curry shashlik
Hello dear readers, today I would like to introduce you to one of my latest shashlik (kind of shish kebab) variations – basically a domestic remake of the beloved “snack stand shashlik”. It all started for me in autumn 2020 – somehow it felt like a hundred years had passed since I last enjoyed a good shashlik at one of my favourite stands. Continue reading Curry shashlik
LaSelva – Organic Delicatessen
When I visited for the first time BIOFACH this year, I was lucky enough to get to know a veteran of the industry – LaSelva BIO-Delicatessen, an Italian family of connoisseurs with a pioneering spirit from Munich. LaSelva took its first steps into the field of organic farming 40 years ago. This makes Toscana one of the proverbial cradles of organic farming in Europe. Continue reading LaSelva – Organic Delicatessen
FRUIT LOGISTICA 2025
Anticipation for this year’s FRUIT LOGISTICA was high – perhaps a little too high, because expectations need to be met, and this time Friday was certainly not our best choice of day to attend. But more on that later.
Continue reading FRUIT LOGISTICA 2025
Das Dorsch – time for the culinary
On the recommendation of an experienced restaurateur from Fürstenwalde, we visited today quite spontaneously Das Dorsch in Bad Saarow. In order not to experience an unpleasant surprise on this sunny Sunday, we have previously reserved by phone of course and had luck to get hold of a table outside. Continue reading Das Dorsch – time for the culinary
FRUIT LOGISTICA 2024
As every year, fruit enthusiasts gathered once again in the halls of Messe Berlin in 2024. Naturally, the Foodadvisorblog team also undertook the “arduous” journey to the German capital to report back to you. Continue reading FRUIT LOGISTICA 2024
International Green Week 2024
The 2024 International Green Week was once again truly refreshing—say what you will, but taking your first breaths in the newly laid-out flower halls of Green Week is always a “coming home” moment.
HLB: Papaya at its best – Organic from America
At the FRUIT LOGISTICA there were all sorts of suppliers of papaya and every variety had its advantages. I had the chance to try papayas from every corner of the world. Very tasty papayas came for example from Brazil, they were quite big, nice to look at, not too firm and sweet as sugar. Continue reading HLB: Papaya at its best – Organic from America
TOMRA 2022 – The Interview
First of all, a quick info on my TOMRA interview partner at FRUIT LOGISTICA 2022 in Berlin.
Ken Moynihan, a native of Ireland, has been CEO of TOMRA Processed Food since January 2021. He is an absolute team player and brings to the company more than a decade and a half of experience in leadership roles in high-growth, transformational and scaling structures.
In addition to outstanding technical expertise, Ken consistently exudes positive life energy that has motivated his teams to award-winning high performance over the years. Ken is the Global Player personified and has worked, lived and been inspired by different cultures in South Africa, USA as well as New Zealand. Prior to joining TOMRA, Ken was CEO of Compac, the global leader in fresh fruit sorting technology, which TOMRA acquired in 2016. Continue reading TOMRA 2022 – The Interview
The Mussel Pot
We arrived in the morning with the Interislander Ferry from Wellington on the South Island of New Zealand. Already the entrance to the South Island revealed the breathtaking nature that this part of New Zealand has to offer. An optical foretaste with green hills, almost like in the Shire. Continue reading The Mussel Pot
SCOTLAND HILLS
The premium beef of the brand SCOTLAND HILLS carries the label “Scotch Beef” and is produced according to high standards. On the one hand, the farms are regularly inspected by the Scottish animal welfare organisation SPCA on a voluntary basis and in unannounced spot checks. Thus, ethical breeding and rearing has been guaranteed in Scotland for many years – farms that violate the guidelines can be closed down without further ado. Secondly, the quality of all meat products is checked by Quality Meat Scotland. Continue reading SCOTLAND HILLS
MERANO bacon (Speck)
South Tyrol has been a reliable source of excellent bacon and sausage products for centuries, which is why many professionals in the field of bacon and ham production come from this part of Italy. Especially the ideal air conditions there have always been a guarantee for the optimal maturing of air-dried meat & sausage products. Continue reading MERANO bacon (Speck)
Innovation Award 2022
This year, the Innovation Award at FRUIT LOGISTICA was once again a real magnet for visitors. However, the setup for the presentation of the Innovation Award participants was different this time from that of previous years.
Messe Berlin had decided to set up the associated stands in Hall 20. This was a wise decision, especially due to the always poor acoustics and proximity to the trade fair catering at the previous location in front of Hall 21, because now visitors could devote themselves to the innovators’ presentations in a much more relaxed manner.
We begin our brief overview of this year’s participants, including a profile, with the winner of the FRUIT LOGISTICA 2022 Innovation Award.