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the lives of those who claims to be. the seeds of civil rights. peace movement women's long planned. this week don't. hire want to welcome to another exciting edition of euro max i'm your host meghan li from cocktails for the stars to tasty treats from france we're covering lots of ground so let's get right to it here's a look at what's coming up. a love affair apart show for romantics opens in basel switzerland. and the first back to photos revealed how different breeds of the
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human. shaken and stirred a belgian barkeeper make cocktails for the stars. we kick off today show in switzerland which is playing host to grand basel a showcase for automobiles and their role in society and art from models of from generations gone by to futuristic examples that never made it to production the event is not just for current through this but for lovers of artistic design as well. this nine hundred sixty one lincoln continental once belonged to a padlock because so by combining it with one of her own sculptures smith's are to serve a few he has turned it into a work of art. yet transforms cars made by his family's firm into lifestyle objects. as design professor pollard to me nearly has turned his experiences with an old fear panda into
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a video installation the vote of cause in modern life and culture is the theme at grandpa's of. my cars my studio when i drive a field because i'm keeping the attention on the road and of course what i'm doing . it doesn't completely stop another area of my brain to think but it. it just does a trick that it helps me create somehow exhibition organize the color to mean any invited people from all over europe cultures seem to work together for a grand battle including george. who was once voted car designer of the twentieth century by a jury of experts. and steven bailey a design critic and co-founder of london's design museum. this creates a more very multi-layered discourse about cars that we've experienced in the
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automotive world so far but it's not a motor show it's about people being able to see smart. this car was designed by italian star architect jill conti sixty five years ago but it was never built now an original scale model has been produced for the first time. and british actor interest albo made this film about his passion for cats. amazing how does cost real stars of the motion like you're going to. speak is the only sensation unique to the twentieth century and i think to be honest i think the whole motor car as we see it here is
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a twentieth century phenomenon the drama the romance the sex the power the prestige the status. stephen baby has brought the car along with him to grand and nine hundred sixty one british built forward capri. michael great design it inspires dreams and this car was meant to give the english consumer a dream of america but also a trade school to capri and it was meant to give them the dream of foreign travel. all of the cars on display at grandpa's will have a story to tell and here they presented like artworks in a gallery in just the right light. the vehicles on show range from the earliest of automobiles. to the wild experiments of the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's. to this self driving electric car designs by jet to a judge out a. mortgage of course we want to create
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a product that will sell. for you that will be successful in the marketplace multi but some cars are so well made that over the years they acquire something like a cultural or artistic value it is to come into value go. like this nine hundred sixty three corvair to studio prototype over the last half century and many of those other designs have also become classics to make fusion ability greener and more sustainable new technical standards must be met. so increasingly form must follow function. it's still a prototype who knows if it will ever go into production so the colonel can say fifty years time we'll know if it's a milestone in automotive history i still think that there is a place for beauty people are clever enough to come up with. many sort of solution even if the future cause you know it's like if you don't shore
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things like this and that and then there would be less people to start thinking about. grandpa's will an exciting new platform to discuss past and future mobility and our continuing fascination with the automobile. when we go on now to a brief look at other stories on the cultural scene including a high rise bill to stand the test of time a food bank in florence and i'm news a legend who won't hang up his guitar just yet more on those stories coming up in today's express. the frame for the world's tallest high rise made of wood has been topped out in the norwegian town of broome and alt the muse tower is eighteen stories and eighty five
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meters high the laminated timber is fireproof. a total of twelve thousand trees went into its construction the lower floors will house offices four stories are reserved for a hotel and the upper seven are to house apartments. and you log burns eating certain public streets and squares in florence. the burners in force around midday and at night offenders can face a five hundred euro fine. the new rule primarily targets so-called kick the tourists squashing doorways and on steps eating take away. many leave their trash behind and locals complain. on friday the english singers songwriters to pull mccartney released
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a new center album titled egypt station his eighteenth since the breakup of the beatles. to seventy six year old rex most of the some some sound. if you're a pet owner have you ever wondered what you looked like through its eyes while berlin artist clara hobson has developed a special apparatus to satisfy such curious minds the so-called and in my local mat is a type of photo machine which gives the viewer an animal's purse back to be a snake fish horse or bet we take a closer look now at how it works. this may look like an ordinary photo booth but in fact it's a world first. it's been dubbed the. lot. and the
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molecule of mass is an animal's eye view machine you can go inside just like you would a normal face have it and get your picture taken as seen through the eyes of a certain species of animal. berlin artist clara hobbs invented the booth she came up with after a museum a commissioner for an art project about how animals perceive the world human beings can use it to view themselves as one of six very different species would see them through the very different types of eyes. this is the jumping spider having eight eyes distorts the image. then there's the horse its eyes are set far apart so that causes a blind strip of bats upside down and hunts by soner signals. snake this is what life looks like with thermal imaging on an extended neck.
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and what comes out is a passport photo that shows the person the regular human way and next to it is a second photo depicting the subject as the selected animal species with see them. in the inverted. the i mean my local amounts range of the pictures are backed up by a lot of science but also had to be allowed some artistic license. i did a lot of research and talked to lots of scientists and collected lots of material from what research is available on how animals see there's relatively little on it but the parts that intrigued me most are what i picked out to use. the museum of natural history as director since the our project is completely in line with her institution's objective. that's not really what i'm going to this is a really interesting change of perspective for us as a natural history museum it's not only about how we see animals but how we regard
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animals. yeah we do plenty of that here in the museum photos reproducing the vision of a sunfish a jumping spider or an octopus take just a little more time to develop the. museum for nature in early twenty nineteen. time now for something to eat and for ten days a cart we are heading to britain and france for a classic dish that these are kept made with buckwheat which is a specialty in this in north western region of france now in the buckwheat used here has a history in itself dating back many centuries now while kepler normally serve sweet with jam or even chocolate spread let are rather salty and can be served with ham and even an egg well we take a look now at various versions of a traditional company.
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brittany is famous for its rugged and beautiful coastline this region in northwestern france is home to fishermen and farmers. locally grown wheat is plentiful here good news for the region's many crippled. and there's certainly no shortage of those here in the small town of compact which dates back to the middle ages. is one of the oldest here it's run by audrey we are day and her colleague. for her craps she mixes different types of flour in addition to ordinary wheat meal she also uses flour made from buckwheat. known here as or black wheat it's a key ingredient in the protein. let me melissa says and i've added salt to my various types of flour mills and now i mix it all up with my hands.
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so i had one egg and finally water. and she looked at. the mixture is needed to form a light batter. then it's ready for cooking. let's thank you so this is the day. the griddle is coated with egg yolk before cooking rather than fat. that's now we wait. oh if we use a lot of butter in brittany butter with salt. and a goes in the center in january and then kill your teas over the top five in there now add ham and fold it.
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then you brush it with salted butter. and it's. all kinds of toppings can be used for the. favorites include goat's cheese or rock for sausage bacon or slices of pork loin. the gullets are traditionally served with cider. was first introduced to france from asia in the middle ages it quickly became popular among farmers. the plants thrive even in brittany's acidic soil and rainy conditions. as today in that takes just three months to grow that's very fast and that's what made it so popular. it was duchess of brittany who really brought it in.
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and she divided the region into an upper and a lower brittany. so in upper brittany there where god let and in lower brittany the more refined clip. craft and are not just popular with the locals but also with tourists diners at the cracker he describes he get to select the ingredients of their choice. and as the meal is very inexpensive it's common to have multiple courses. for dessert many opt for a sweet cup. it's usually served with a homemade caramel sauce. but the couple created floozy offers a huge selection of sweet crops including with chocolate or fruit preserves. for the more exclusive club with combine. spirit
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how do you become a bartender of the stars well it's a combination of hard work and sheer luck as manual vowed has found antwerp in belgium will tell you after graduating from a hotel management school and working in a bar in a luxury liner for years he met a wealthy indian customer who changed his life. then found himself in high demand well now he serves up drinks at parties with thousands of guests and many of them with celebrity status. cocktails with ice stirred shaken for saved after twenty years in the business manual doubters has perfected his craft when he's not had his cocktail bar in antwerp he's off conjuring up their pitches for stars like paris hilton. money without his and his twin brother only travel all over the world making contact but it all began with a chance encounter diamond dealers from india ordered soft drinks at his bar they
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were so impressed by his alcohol free cocktails they took him for a party with five thousand guests. he said they had a large building in india and told me to fly over and take a look. and there were some big name american stars there celine dion and richard branson richard branson the billionaire entrepreneur was equally impressed and indian maharajah's also took note since then the brothers have been providing the cocktails for ever larger parties. these days we do events in india would have to thirty five thousand guests and you can imagine how much preparation is involved. everything has to be fresh and it's incredibly hot there too. and the parties don't always take place in hotels but sometimes all we do an event with ten or fifteen thousand guests it's a huge open air venue. they make it look like euro disney and. the brothers have been working hand in hand for eleven years their alcohol free market
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tales are especially popular. they grew up in a small town not far from antwerp manual studied hotel management and ended up taking a job on the q.e. two back then in the one nine hundred eighty s. it was one of the world's most luxurious cruise liners she began as a waiter in one of the onboard restaurants. i'm starting there one day there was a very small party with the captain and he said to me is the voters i need to serve cocktails upstairs we'll show you how it's done. and that's when i first got interested in that. man well spent twelve years working as a barkeeper on the ship rustling up cocktails for stars such as dolly parton for telly savalas and other celebrities p. created a number of recipes and has since published them in a book. shop and made one recipe for tom cruise he was having a party in his room he almost never came out of
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a suite. so they told me to go up and make cocktails for. he said he wanted a might. very well known cocktail. is normally a very strong cocktail with a lot of alcohol in it. so i made him a version that was a lot softer and gentler. i thought from samples to manual and only both live in their home city in belgium. there was a pretty risky move because back then they went really cocktail bars in belgium not at all and i didn't want to serve beer there are lots of cafes that can do that i just said i'm going to do my thing what i've learned to do we're making mocktails and cocktails. without alcohol when manual isn't mixing for the stars at an event abroad you'll find him at his barn and where you still can't order of beer here but there are one hundred twenty different menu
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to choose from he knows each and every recipe by heart and he takes great care to sing his ingredients the fruit is always fresh the serious are homemade and the spirits are top notch his personal favorite in the summertime is gentle tonic for us even appeals the recipe. it's really simple. a couple of big chunks of ice so it fills up the glass. with a shot of good gin. a few juniper berries. some fresh lemon bam. and then a swizzle stick not a straw because if you drink it with a straw you lose the carbonation come on. you stirred a little and slowly add the tonic. ice cold
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poured in slowly and you have the perfect gin and tonic you have it in perfect and . the celebrity barkeeper loves mixing drinks in antwerp when he isn't talking to india at another royal wedding or on some other retention. and finally we take to the water for a tour of the german city of how the port there is over eight hundred years old and a huge tourist attraction there are lots of tour companies both on the river and the lakes but only one with professional skippers on hand who not only show you the city from the water but they give you a sailing lesson as well however guess who easily get seasick should be well advised the outer allstar lake can get quite choppy. lots of people envy her hollins profession. he gets plenty of sun wind and every day brown is a skip
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a in hamburg. i'm guessing you want to go sailing. and his job is to make sure that his guests crusty as safe and sound. principles and i've fallen in the water before but on a private trip with hans to takes about ninety minutes those who want to can get in some sailing practice today it hasn't it takes the. the ulster isn't an easy place to sail when stern often so you have to do a lot. this is my first time home a little nervous out on the specific rules for right of way it's demanding but fun. is a lake like body of water in the middle of hamburg that's up to a kilometer wide and three long hons worked on it for four years. and i love to sail and to teach my guests
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a little about sailing and about humber to of course. after i passed the n.l. stood there are two looks and they used to regulate the water levels in the ulster because otherwise it would overflow. because it's really interesting because of the perspective that you otherwise don't have if you're just in a car or on a bike. and you have this but i come from johannesburg where we don't have a lot of water i really like the tour. might even be the most beautiful view of hamburg. obama went to see for the first time when he was fifteen and eventually got a captain's license after his son was born he gave up life as a full time say that he never gets tired of sailing on the. water is like the liquid of life for me that's so dramatic i know but it's the
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truth it was i have to say looking down the river once a month and look at the ships i couldn't live without water around me if you would have offered the. two of his son to sail long ago but there's still plenty of locals and tourists eager to learn from him. and with that we come to the end of the show but before we go we want to let you went on the winner of this week's draw and now we wanted to see your previous vacation photos and we received lots of entries from all over the world including from colombia or from the colosseum in rome. cured in norway but the winner is. low from my car ta go in costa rica who sailed over turkey and a hot air balloon so congrats all right you are the winner of an exclusive euro max watch thanks to everyone for taking part so for me and the rest of the crew here in berlin as always thanks for joining us bye for now but hopefully we will see you
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