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treat cream filled moran's that melts in the mouth. christmas classic an austrian carol that conquered the world. and the hidden talent and munich exhibition on as a long underrated artist. let starts off with a sweet treat that is making a comeback the men of a year is a moran concoction originally best known in northern france and in belgium and has long been seen as old fashioned and provincial but the french convection a friend of the volcom has made it his life's work to improve that image and it worked his bakery specializing in the delicacy has branches all over the world we paid a visit in lil to get a taste of the marvelous. good . moran

a little chocolate and lots and lots of whipped cream. it's pretty rich but that didn't stop this delicacy with roots in northern france and belgium from concrete world. created equal call is the man who made it famous abroad was good all the. there are several things that set this cake apart first of all it's very very light because the membrane is very airy and then shows it to them because i've changed a key component for thirty years maybe you were made with butter cream i use cream a very light. so the light cream is light and the result is a pastry that looks impressive but weighs less than one hundred grams. because home base is the northern french city of leeds. the city center was renowned for its splendid architecture until the rise of man of the year. it has

become a veritable city trademark it's so popular that customers queue up in long lines on saturdays just to. customers can watch man of the year being made inside the shop that's important to vocal he says anyone can make them he's even happy to share his recipes. so let's take a look. at the egg whites and sugar a whip together to make them around these marang spirals a baked slowly in the oven for about an hour at one hundred degrees celsius meanwhile the cream and as much chocolate added as desired. finally cream is filled between two banks and the whole thing is rolled in chalk mats all shaved chocolate . and. already. focal of is a key to it. shows up in your book. the most important thing is the amount of cream

you use between that you want to see it needs to have enough to make the rain melt episodes like that but not too much if you use too much of the membrane will disintegrate just striking the right balance that way too if. it's all melville you deferred there is one to please every palate the classic version is covered in chocolate. the cons recipe for success however came with a refined the traditional formula to create his own with the twelve with new flavors like cherry. or not. because personal favorite is coated with crystallized marang a history that he named after the supporters of the french revolution the song could not customers adore his. she best and i actually don't like cream cakes but these are extra light. to the marang is delicate but maintains that shape and i love the flavors my favorites are white chocolate and specular pictures from

no suitable says they're delicious i love them who believe in. god. that you are finding followers the world over the condo has twenty shots including in london brussels paris geneva new york and in berlin. the court is relaxed about his marang spirit and in popularity when he's not already to new york was opening a new branch his most happy working in his old shop in downtown. oh there was just no more need for me i just love my product that's why i like to be here. unfortunately to be lucky i'm on the road a lot then i miss being in my store at the office or whenever i have the time i'm here i need this in the room somehow i find it. reassuring to take my own case.

that's it i think the good doesn't even belong to lingen he scouting for new locations in amsterdam and to saddam after thirty six years he's still happy to shay's passion for matthew. now let's find out where another christmas tradition comes from in our series home for christmas this time we tracked down the origins of silent night the famous carol has been translated into hundreds of languages and is sung in all corners of the world but it all began in austria it was first performed almost two hundred years ago at a church in doth a small village book a young priest had written the lyrics two years before and then the text was set to music by a local teacher so let's take the trip to the place where this christmas carol came to life.

t. . he . no. good. news is. really. even if some have to brush up on the lyrics almost everyone knows the world's most famous christmas song it originated here in the austrian village of over and off in the run up to christmas the small town years on spec offers visitors silent night tours to eliminate the songs history just before i know many start here with this picture over here you can see the side that my chapel. organist and teacher friends of a group are and the young parish priest yosef more composed the music and wrote the

lyrics and together performed the song and opened doors on christmas eve in eighteen eighteen traveling salesman took the song to markets across europe while christian missionary spread even further around the globe. as if the missionaries realized that it hobbit a christian message and was easy for families to learn and that's probably why it became so popular and they didn't if we could put off since the nineteenth century the song has been translated into more than three hundred languages. you. know whether carol has been recorded as often as the evergreen from austria with versions by a series of superstars. oh

. just. the locals an open door stage a historical play in various locations that traumatizes the origin of silent night after the end of the napoleonic wars. was. this were a field of in the gun it was a terrible time the poverty created by the wards and the molding troops that passed through the village was your plan and today the song still evokes the hope for peace visitors to the silent night chapel can listen to the original version with its six verses and accompanying guitar chords.

in two thousand and eleven unesco added silent night to its intangible cultural heritage list sept primal hopes the songs popularity will last for generations to come. we have to try to maintain the tradition within the families so that children grow up using it is not easy in the digital age because of the internet kids just don't sing songs like that in. the human soul. some sixty thousand visitors flock to the small village every year most of them in the pre christmas season tourists and locals alike enjoy the festive atmosphere around the silent night chapel this is all it's a quintessential christmas song that is always lovely because everyone associate. it's it with special memories that brings people together particularly around christmas and with over something so we had to phonied and then. we had the famous

. is that i'm far from it's known around the world and that's why open doors has become a place of pilgrimage around christmas with its message of peace silent night continues to bring people together in oberndorf and around the world. from silent nights to flying through the nights we take a look at a daring wingsuit sky dive in a round up of today's news but first we're off to the finish capital helsinki. a scene to see a day celebrations brought light into the darkness of winter on wednesday. it's a widely observed tradition in scandinavia and among swedish speakers in finland. in the capital hill sinky on

a kaiser edstrom was crowned this year's lucio by hosting the city mayor this is the sixty first time helsinki has held official st lucie as celebrations. the. swiss extreme athlete geraldine fast enough has jumped out of a helicopter at a height of fifty five hundred metres in the middle of the night she was wearing a wing suit lit up by l.e.d.s. and landed in the wrong hole by a mountain massif of the western punny now whether she's wearing a wing suit free riding or base jumping gero the fast not stunts are always spectacular. stupid divers have set up an entity seen in the query and at madrid soup. five sharks and various turtles will share their home with maria joseph and baby jesus and the three kings for the christmas period. this unusual tradition dates back to

one thousand nine hundred six and to raise awareness of the environment. next up we're featuring an artist who was sadly not fully appreciated in the time. was a painter at the forefront of the german expressionist movement and part of the office collective the blue rider but she spent her career in the shadow of a vastly condensed ski now her contribution to expressionism is being highlighted in the exhibition in munich the most comprehensive collection of her works to date over hough of the paintings have never been displayed in public before. a bold exploration of color and. in one thousand know not and gabriella minter

painted her friend marianna for verification. the two were founding members of the blue rider group a pioneering movement of german expressionism it rejected cellphone painting and the conventions of academia minter was searching for truth in art. through the sec the bishop it's plain to see that she's one of the preeminent european artists of the twentieth century who was experimenting with. the exhibition is radiant after particularly at the entrance to these portraits welcome visitors with their luminous colors and pot and that's exactly one of the things we wanted to highlight and that's the body. the alps and the roofs of more now in southern germany where minter who was born in berlin had a home. a view from her window she's our colors everywhere yellows reds and blues. for a long time interest talent was overlooked in the art world. in

eighty ninety nine mentor turned twenty two. she received a camera for her birthday and discovered photography before she turned to painting . she and her sister went to the u.s. to visit relatives on their mother's side they travelled some five thousand kilometers from new york to texas. mentor always had her camera with her. she learned to see the world through its lens months the comps missed us and as a man in them and bear dog she wasn't from a background where she'd received a well rounded education. went to great schools learned an instrument and had all the things normally associated with so. to korea with so i think i even thought they know that she had to work hard and did it all by herself i had the see she

went to the us to visit family i thought and developed an autistic style from nothing once she was what is known in art history as an autodidact as a dust last month consist also a mile to the dock to sneddon. minter lived in this house in moore now with a russian painter vasily kundan ski. they met in one thousand nine hundred two when she enrolled in his drawing class at a munich art school. they lived together openly but their relationship was turbulent he called her his ella his muse but as a well known artist himself he overshadowed her and her talent. at the time women were not admitted to arctic anime's. they could attend painting school but were often scorned. kandinsky encouragement or however telling her that

she couldn't be taught she was a natural talent. but life in close quarters put a strain on their relationship. it ended when world war one forced kandinsky to return to russia. the turkish as a stick to them without the tradition of course this is the story of modernism it's the story of painting is the story of the true right a group is the story of the relationship between mentor and convince the bigger sister but it's also the story of a woman who really managed to eke out a successful career for herself in a very male dominated society and could live in that camp thought and this was people who already know when not the story. and we wanted to show them other aspects it's not the under an aspect aspect and so through them. in the one nine hundred thirty s. . every elementary suddenly turned to new subject matter workers and construction sites two of her paintings were displayed in one thousand nine hundred thirty six

propaganda exhibition celebrating infrastructure improvements in nazi germany. the painter it seems had lost her artistic vision let's list. to get the first forest and certainly these landscapes were being powered by fear and by these machines and of course it was a time of enormous change especially with regard to the idyllic life of the past at the same time we know that the nazis were taking the weimar republic infrastructure projects out of the drawers and implementing the rules that we see the olympic road so of course the political picture is an indication of the changing times so changes not just to the landscape but also to the entire ideology of the time. during the nazi era gabriela minter included swastikas on paintings that she later hid under new layers of paint after the war she withdrew increasingly from public

life but she continued to paint even before the war she had begun adopting the sobriety of the new objectivity movement. the exhibition at munich's house affords a broader perspective on her life and work than just her more famous blue writer period it runs through april twenty eighth teen. next artist is very much appreciated in her field but was determined to make strides in another genre the unofficial never is a world class ballerina but her second passion is modern dumbs for years she's been trying to boost the popularity of this style in her native russia and she's having success even organizing an entire festival to promote classical ballet is contemporary cousin. in phuket of production by the pair and by the theater unlike western europe russia a bastion of classicism has been slow to embrace modern dance now provincial

ensembles are making the lead. star dancer gian if nova is spearheading a drive to cultivate contemporary dance in her native russia. since adjusting to today it's the regional companies that are healing exciting new choreographies from places like him yet even good. to have been skylights over who no one could hold that hold the forty one year old ballerina feels as much at home in classical ballet as contemporary dance a celebrated principal dancer at the marine ski in st petersburg she also held that position at the american ballet theatre for twelve years this nova launched the context festival in moscow to promote modern dance and young choreographers but plenty more needs to be done before contemporary dance acquires the same prestige as classical ballet and that's probably the most about how many we have a problem with education that is fields because there are no places to learn the

techniques of modern dance unlike in the west where dances learn many techniques priority has traditionally been tesco ballet and that's where most of the money goes but of course things are happening there are talented people and lots of enthusiasm people are starting from scratch and that's very exciting as. this novas context festival was originally planned as a one off event but it was so successful that the fifth edition just took place in november. but as you know there must have been some we've developed into a significant event that the audience eagerly anticipated and photos feel they want to believe by now thought from the first festival on the. it was clear that there was a wave of interest in mud and. which has been growing by the year. the kill . bill.

now if you need some inspiration for christmas presents we've got just the thing for you in today's episode of d.i.y. sorry hans and we'll show you how to make a stylish storage option in the form of a rather unique newspaper rack so save yourself some shopping by making this as a gift after all a homemade present comes from the hot. time my name is today asked for us now as a newspaper writer made up. it's very easy to make a. unique pipes in three different sizes two forty three said to me to pipes. for thirty five centimeter pipes and to twenty three said to be to pipes these are all available at any hard list too. ates copper elbows with

a ninety degree angle. fabric or a table runner this table runner is forty eight by a hundred and fifty centimeters. needles for fastening. and i am. hemming tape and scissors. and a hacksaw first saw the copper pipes to the right length. of fabric over so that both ends are in the center facing up this side will lead to be the reverse side start with one wing measure the opening for the pipe and mock it with the pan leave this gap open because it's where the couple pipes will have to be pulled through later do the same on both sides next place down the hemming tape and trim it to size use the pins to fasten the hemming tape around the entire fabric but remember to leave the space open for the pipes now lay the fabric so that the markings for the openings are exactly over each other and boston both sides with panes repeat on the other side. over not the ends of the fabric in the middle one

after another i am both ends down on to the fabric ironed out all of the pinned edges and then remove the pins. next assemble the rack using the copper pipes for each side you'll need one twenty three sent to me to pipe to thirty five centimeter pipes and four copper elbows. start with the smallest pipe and stick both sides into the copper elbow then take the medium sized pipes and plug them into the other ends of the copper elbows now grab the last two copper elbows the opening should face upwards repeat on the other side . finally insert the long pipe into the openings of the copper elbows pull the fabric over the pipes and attach the opposite end. and there you have it snazzy magazine rack just turn it over and fill it with the off. favorite glossies.

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