culture between here and the simple challenge in court if. only. for the son is the same think it was worth it for me to come to germany. and got my license to work as a swimming instructor to share knowledge to children not to talk to strangers to just. let your story take part share it on info my greenstock. welcome to the show wed today we'll be taking a closer look at the recipe behind a yummy yuletide snack is a preview of what's coming up. for the palate spicy speculators

biscuits are a popular i've been speciality. in the making museum in cologne all those perfect backdrop straight instagram photos. and on the go famous german course america has good shoes to travel and. we start off today's program with a festive twist to this week's series sweet delights in germany called specter lots in dutch and flemish then as suspect this biscuit is a common christmas cookie in germany belgium and the netherlands i made using a special seasonal spice mix containing cinnamon cloves and lots of other flavors and in belgium the specular is most closely associated with st nicholas day which is celebrated in many european countries on the sixth of december.

the contrast central market square in brussels is popular all year round with tourists but during the christmas season it's politically very special and belgians unofficial national cook even speckle norse makes it even better. than one of my favorite cookies and they were there. parades completely associated with this time of year with this in nicholas i would say crunchy. butter fool sugar for an amount of christmas markets will realize a cup of coffee. this spiced cookie has a long tradition which is a pessimist by the missile don't want bakery. the classic arrives here with cinnamon and clothes is very popular but there are all kinds of speaker louis on sale here you can look through a good new percent here probably best known and best selling one is this

traditional specular six if you disagree but i'm all the second one is with almonds and then there's this one with either chocolate or vanilla curry go at it along with different flavors because those come in different shapes said nicholas is a particularly popular at the moment they can still shape the dough with traditional wood molds that also make a difference regarding special flavor selim says he has been working here for almost thirty years. he refuses to reveal the full secret behind the maze zones and worse because those but he just about that the main ingredients are flour butter brown sugar and the spice mix that includes cinnamon and close. during the spanish empire the spaniards travelled around the world a lot i don't bank spices that gradually found their way into european cookie recipes. we all know up. to spec you lose isn't easy to make

so you have to get the proportions right that's why we're sticking to our traditional recipe. so that we've stayed attached to our roots. when the dough is ready it is pressed into wooden molds with the traditional my teeth before going into the oven. most piccolo's is regarded as a christmas tree since most other european countries it is always available in belgium. it's because we may expect you know us all year round we sell it for valentine's day easter and also in summer because particularly at the end of the year but then we miss bousfield more lonely in belgium and around the world as we ship it all over to our online customers. alexander is a seventh generation make he and his brother work with their father today

maintaining an old family tradition. with the i was greeted by in my world grown five eighteen twenty nine for one year before the creation of benjamin your worst one hundred years now. to the new very. to this day miss out on what has resisted the urge to industrialize its production it has brought it out and opened several other stores around belgian. they've also developed new products including the smash box. it's a huge speaker knows that comes with a hammer. it's handy if a particular recipe calls was because it was crumbs but apparently there's a deeper meaning this is a fear of this my books and when it's been brought up by the president do you suppose it's hard to do so. what then is the bakers don't experiment with is being

greetings what they speak and why with a it's clearly a recipe for success. well the spec of those is probably my favorite christmas best kit but what street sweet treats do you prefer let us know on our website de that we don't call slash lifestyle and by taking part you could win an exclusive euro max wristwatch so best of luck now let's take a look at today's culture news in europe there's plenty to report on from the british capital and today's express were in london for all three stops. on tuesday prince william and duchess catherine hosted a christmas party in london they invited guests with families of soldiers who are serving abroad for the holidays. is someone whose husband has served i knew how

hot it feels when a loved one deaves him to do the job they've trained for. when william served in the food clintons when search and rescue i remember how it felt. but icons imagine how it feels when you are left once a way when i just have a say for christmas prince william was on active duty in the british air force for several years among other things as a helicopter pilot he left the military in twenty thirteen. on tuesday scottish artists on a project was a would it be we now turn a prize for the video cannot split it. if there's a three minute consolation shot on his smartphone examines queen identity in britain and her own coming out. the turner prize is regarded as britain's most prestigious distinction for modern us it's named after the romantic painter william tana and presented in london's take place in the gallery.

the animated film mobley legend of the jungle premiered in london on tuesday on hand with the film's director andy serkis and actress naomie harris mobile it will be released worldwide on the netflix streaming platform on december seventh but. the film is set in india and is based on the novel by regular deplaning published in eighty ninety four. now we're off to the german city of cologne the district of it on felt is one of the trendiest areas of the city known for its diverse nightlife fashion boutiques markets autism all cafes and international restaurants quite fittingly it's now also home to an instagram museum if you're a bit of an insta addict like me it's just the place to visit like the social media

platform the instagram museum is all about creating an ideal version of yourself. there aren't any exhibits at this museum nothing to see apart from the perfect backdrop for the perfect photo at the super candy pop up instagram museum in cologne. open the museum up to seeing its success across the pond. this concept and this concept is from the u.s. so it's been going strong for about a year and a half now and exists in many cities. basically began when museums started realizing that exhibitions that allowed people to take photos of themselves were drawing more visitors than more conventional ones thought this does not offer. that some of that stuff it's not all still there are twenty different interactive installations each one with a picture perfect concept like this pink ball pits or

a balloon room these two sisters came with their mother and a very good camera. they're all set for the photo shoot and they're going out of their way to have found. their to do a backbend. and of course they've got more than one outfit for the shoot. yeah but what if i don't wear the she is very often so i thought i'd bring them along for the photos i think it's best to have different photos where you're not always wearing the same things just to have a bit of variety. was going on cause but i was also not the owner and from this whole golf i also here with their mother they know exactly what makes for a good picture. you have to smile into the camera and you have to be radiant

and think about the posts always be creative he found the bad ones when you get that natural moment especially with children that's when you. it's the perfect photo. that is the spectacle most of the visitors heard about but online it's especially popular with women. opposite of course we have a target group it's primarily women over ninety five percent of visitors here are women there are professional and amateur photographers who enjoy all the different sets. and so we also have families who have gone with the tree for children under six. men there were five friends over fifty who made some great pictures and there were even some over seventy people of all ages just like. the confetti room is also a perfect backdrop and action is why they've come to the museum after all the entrance fee is twenty nine euros for two hours. well the museum

is not that big if it's about just having fun like us it really is quite expensive . but you probably makes more sense for people who really need the perfect picture and are actually making money with them on instagram. museum will be around until the end of february twenty ninth. in. europe at its best your imax brings you the highlights on instagram are stunning landscapes spectacular buildings and mouthwatering delicacy our reporters are constantly on the look out with their cameras we look forward to your comments check out our joy amongst instagram stories and discover how exciting and diverse jury can be. on instagram. so head on over there today to find out more about the st nicholas tradition. now

time for our ongoing series your mix of locks where we showcase european architecture and interior design today were headed for the swedish capital stockholm for many years salo and her husband lived in a small downtown apartment but when the children came along they needed more space being city lovers moving out of town to a more affordable location wasn't really an option so instead they were able to extend their existing home the result is decidedly cozier but it's still in the same downtown location. hello and welcome to my bottom and. this balcony leads directly into the living room of mean a solid his apartment it's located in stockholm says storey center.

the rim central feature is a fireplace. i love so it was it's always been one of my dreams to have a fireplace it's really one of those homey cozy things that you get from a fireplace. the living room is located on the apartment second floor and it also serves as nina's home office she's a t.v. producer. the bathroom is down the hall. this is a children's room there's lots of natural light here the children share a room because the whole apartment has just ninety square meters of living space. for the time being they have to share. and most of the time they're not even in the

room to be honest it will be a problem but at their age right now it's not a problem the way i see it. they disagree with me but they have to get with it at the moment. the parents bedroom is actually part of the living room area here too there's plenty of natural light on the other hand there's no door. to. the biggest issue it's really not the kids but it's. more the problem when my husband is watching television or films in that late at night then we fixed it by getting headphones. this way leads to the lower floors. nina and her husband used to live in this part of the apartment all by themselves but forty five square meters wasn't enough for a growing family. so they expanded into the loft apartment that was one floor of. one of the main issues

when we built this was storage so we were trying to be creative and find storage somewhere and one of things. is that we had used to have the bed in here. and since we didn't need that anymore we turned it into a storage for those big doors to hide everything we have in there. here's the open kitchen the family gathers here often and in fact they have no intention of moving to a larger apartment real estate prices in stockholm are high so they have to move out of the center and they don't want to do very much. like to be a citizen because if you would like to go somewhere it would be completely somewhere

else like to come to side. for the time being they'll stay right here in some. nowadays it's become popular to enjoy a coffee on the move usually in a plastic or paper cup germany's royal postman factory k p m wants to cut combat this trend with own more sustainable answer tailored to these fast paced times a porcelain travel mark. among table settings of the finest china is a coffee to go up. as berlin's royal porcelain factory k. pm moved into fast food. it all started at the coffee vending machine in the staff kitchen for example muslims i asked them us pencil what are you drinking from we've been making the finest porcelain for two hundred sixty years and you're drinking from a paper cup and he said i didn't have time to think about that but that was

a year ago now i see my employees around the office with this cup and that's wonderful this is issuing thomas insel is the head designer at the royal porcelain factory and he decided to create a coffee to go cup worthy of its noble makers you know. we started out developing a perfectly normal smith camp but that was to run at the mill much to average for us. so we thought we'd out there call on passion which is our most traditional design out of when you go on to fluctuate this is the core long pattern from seven hundred ninety needs the design of twenty eight. viewpoint we just wanted to try out a new approach and appeal to a younger target group and we had the idea to develop a coffee to go copy sustainability was a priority not just. the materials used to make porcelain our natural feldspar kalen forks and water each coffee cup is produced individually. then they're fired

in the kiln twice. and they're brushed off and stamped with the royal prussian scepter each cup takes fourteen days from start to finish. you know this is the it's a luxury item the cups require about twenty steps from the turning to the final buffing and you're there dipped in blue glaze of. the water color highlights any flaws or dents some of the school or most other corner and pattern is very. all these tiny beads around the cup have to be clearly visible the blue dipping shows as if the pattern is nice and visible and if any flaws show up here the cup is rejected by the division also to you. before the official market launch in early october the company had produced an inventory of five thousand cups and they wondered who would buy them within two weeks the cups were sold out now that you go cups are almost the only item carried by. store in black and white for forty nine

or fifty nine euros. is still proof lid is made of high quality elastomer but what about the longstanding traditions. painters might work on a piece for more than a year but we don't sell these every day in this year's k.p.n. for everyday use. you might call it an entry level luxury product the coffee cup was the most successful market lunch in the company's history. now david bowie was one of the most innovative cysts of his time he was a master of the concept album telling intricate stories with his music so it's perhaps no surprise that shortly before his tragic death in twenty sixteen he also composed a musical with the help of irish playwright and walsh we were in hamburg for a dazzling performance of the show. the video for the song lazarus was released before david kelley died in january twenty sixth. god.

loves god nothing left to lose. and this is jim and a to alexander's share in the musical lazarus. david gold david bowie's the artist who most extended the scope of pop music and a lot so it was it. was david bowie's legacy that he wrote and composed in the last month of his life and this atmosphere is comparable in the piece as a skit it's about someone who doesn't belong on this planet. an alien who wants to leave and wants to die. feels that death is approaching.

its. very selective seventeen of his own songs with a musical which tells the story of an alien stranded on a truck to human body tortured by night and inducing nations. the musical is loosely based on the one nine hundred seventy six film the man who fell to in which bowie played the lead role in. the musical is like a sequel the alien is still on but still doesn't feel at home you. know isn't that it's always fun to play an outsider i've also always been an outsider and so i feel very close to the character it doesn't seem alien to me. it's michelin's i'm not.

when i'm done of the. problem should plan it. and move. i'm still for him some of. the choice to go back to his planets with the rocket that he makes himself. but he failed so. that i could. just get that cyclist as visually stunning production is full of the references and allusions to the current political climate since.

levens that during his life following a creator to write his own fantasy world you can feel it here in the costumes and the way the actors move in the video art your cool. but then we were inspired by him we didn't copy. the. dead bury himself rearrange the songs that feature in the musical and all performed by the various characters. he said. it. was. into the actors interpret the songs from the perspective of their character with the emotions that they have in the moment so it's different than if a pop star were to sing the. onyx

on this is a standout it's uncanny how he captures the essence of david he's clearly a grace of money around. skits or sins and sin eleven no clear limits between his life and the way he staged his persona and even his death and. all of it was ont what more could you want to achieve high. moon moon. as a miss a moving tribute to kind hearing artist who revolutionize the world of pop. and long may live on in our memory that's all for us for today but we're back again tomorrow with plenty more european lifestyle i'm culture prize here on your marks a life and. on the next edition of your own max german performance artist simone clifford doesn't play

it safe he puts on many of his pieces in public spaces or on the street and often he draws passers by into them is a mystery bringing people together in search of a common goal. of your comfort zone beyond next time you're a mess. the

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in fifteen t.w. . how's your view of the world. where i come from but over that's good to cisco it's just like those chinese food doesn't matter where i am it's always reminds me of home after decades of living in germany chinese food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see things a little of different terminology many of fluids first as they're going to asians that exist the other part of the order haven't been implemented in china that's before i'm not a chinese people wondering if their foot is safe to move but if i have a right to learn to read it is this is their job just under the my how i see it and

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deep down on broken lives. the war continues to haunt pose a flight from syria. i'm trying to reach them but nobody answers the war on my phone or to her documentary starts december eighth on t w. friends family and foreign dignitaries have packed into the washington national cathedral for the state funeral of former u.s. president george h.w. bush bush's eldest son from a presidential george w. bush was among those who delivered in honor of america's forty first president.

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