white asparagus at this time of yeah meet the germans expert rachel stuart explains all with. the frozen beauty although a photographer's lead picture has all the facts of the 17th century still lifes of the monster. now as you're watching this child you must probably have some interest in this country and the people who live here rachel stood has been investigating the in a workings of the jumpman psyche for over a year and she'll join us in a minute but 1st is a taste of the series. yeah think of pink really has a german slang would for money and apparently comes from the sound of cooking

putting together. welcome to you meet them and health check ups will be running through some fun facts about health in germany please think of something that's planned ok have you ever the home remedy edition how much you might speed up from the notes you know how to be. kept them on time klout done folks didn't have to. and rachel is right here with me welcome right sheryl i'm going to see you now how do you find your subjects i presume you have a vast crew of research and well actually it's quite personal for months so these really are the kind of things that i've just noticed over the last couple of years of living in germany the kind of things i would still to my friends about in the pub when you're sort of comparing your culture to other people's cultures ok that's correct but some people might see your videos and think oh you're just having a lawful at the expense of the germans but you know what we are having a laugh about tonight it's meant to be

a good fun it's meant to be quiet and it's saying quite tongue in cheek i'd say but there's a lot more to it as well we're trying to be very informative we try and talk a lot into one of our episodes and we really want to make sure that everyone takes something new away from each episode but i think i also get away with being a bit cheeky because the germans they really like british humor they do have got away with it for 30 years and you write for the moment thank you let's see the 1st in the series and this is very topical as it's aspiring us time right now here in germany and you wouldn't believe it but the germans eat 125000 tons of the stuff every year. just. do some lengths and respectable go and even if you can't quite tell from the sun this it will tell you when spring has begun from april to june your life has more reason simply because. they want to know what makes the germans tick well the demand for this pale white

stick asparagus comes in green and even purple too but for most germans only this one will do it's nicknamed white gold perhaps that's a measure of how much they value this national treasure. in season it appears in every dish in soup in a salad on pizza with fish but the plus a combination served up with pride is boiled potatoes and home on the side it's besting with nutrients but then of course it's often drenched in but. i've got to admit i don't quite understand i mean it's ok you've kind of bland so come on germany what's all the fuss about your why it's inspiring to us. barbara bush make them probably do some summer for a couple for a month you see those grieving school. ok. good luck to be outside and islam is country finds its because i think it's i mean this country yeah they did my best my p.p. and my friends gave me. this type of gold grows underground all tucked away in

a loosely packed mound assoon as the tip of the spear breaks through it's time to dig no more sunlight for you each single spear must be plucked out by hand and all the veggies grown in the land from lower saxony right down to the various asparagus takes up the largest area. you will and early on while those limited stock prices might give you a bit of a shock 20 yours but kilos not out of the question and all season long you'll pay for perfection these are the just. spotted i know i'm trying for. life you know because for. sogard will go on with the sheep. by no. go down try to shag a few here on the bus must be perfect or spider strung out license by a goat device i'm sure lots of cops find one centimeter line or 2 since one time since their country would be that big. this is spared us crazy as a marketing dream the special pots and pianos and even a queen crowned once

a year with the dress of the such an ambassador for the local asparagus stuff on june 24th the season comes to a close the sun it's all over as the old saying goes is kitchen toward chicago toward cherries red asparagus dead but with seasonal bad surely part of the wonder is the absence really does make the heart grow fonder. i have to say that's very impressive if you're going to do the whole series in rhyme that would be great i don't think i'm going to manage it sadly but we're just kind of thinking for this one how do we convey this deep passion of this vegetable in germany and that kind of thing that the only way was with a no and you did that you did the wrong i did just. as we sit here well not here

but i saw it of this studio it's over 30 degrees everybody's dreaming about cold beer off to work because germany famous for its beer but they do sometimes mix it with strange things yes that really shocked me when i moved here i already knew that they would took that be a very serious issue and then they started pouring manana juice sometimes was. just yes but it tastes quite good at them a say but i got to say my favorite thing about the german be a culture is the fact that you could be walking down the street and you could stop practically anybody and they'd be able to open your bottle without a bottle 8 now maybe with the teeth or with the lights would escape or at least the whole very impressive is true that is true although i wouldn't recommend anybody to use the teachers we should you know promote that so now apart from big overseas they want to ban. we've seen the one on asparagus what else can we look forward to hearing also it's of stuff so we go from food to language to even nudity so i spent a lot of time in a german spot recently i think for

a lot of coaches including my own it's quite daunting this idea of a mix so everybody's in the news so we made an episode about everything you need to know before you set foot in it which. you do the series for yeah i know it's coming on our show every week now but what shifts favorite thing about the germans. i mean you live here on a difficult for me if the 2 things i mean quite simply is german breakfast is just really great bread cheese meat per week and but also many of my of the germans love being outdoors they take every opportunity they can and there is hiking all camping all bob simply rachel great to have you looking forward to the series thanks very much for covering good. still life painting is basically the painting. object the most common being a vase of flowers or flowers of some description inspired by the golden age of dutch painting in the 17th century the photographer. has built on this great

tradition and with the aid of digital technology created new works timeless quality . at 1st glance they look like traditional still life paintings. but classmates has revived a rather stuffy art form with technology. he takes photos of single flowers and then creates digital flower arrangements on the computer speired by the flemish masters of the 17th and 18th centuries. just like them he creates arrangements that would actually be impossible in real life. in my sphere i have so i want to play with time by taking photos of flowers in every season. i can combine flowers from spring and summer and autumn which is not possible.

finds inspiration everywhere and is always looking out for new motifs he takes photos of flowers of all shapes and colors all year long his data base already boasts over $12000.00 photos. whether he's in a luxury flower shop or in a more modest one around the corner or even at the botanical gardens which has a tropical beauty there was always something that catches his eye just like the 17th century painter. to paint on i need photographs of flowers to use it as a basis for my still lives. so. the photos become some kind of my digital painting and my computer is someone on my canvas and i paint it you turn it on and . she also takes photos of basins crucial components of still life paintings of

flower arrangements well when i start composing my still life so i always start with a photo of a face so the face is really the basis of a still life and it's not just an assessor it's really important. for our book and the face have to be in balance sometimes the face is really in front so to book a is to be also a bit more vibrant more colorful just to keep the balance. behalf of composing a painting has hardly changed since the masters were at work. the only difference today is that boss male voice does everything digitally. good still life in my opinion is still life which is not dull has to have some tension in it and wanted to be shifted and for that purpose i put

a lot of insects in and lot of other animals. in real life plans are dependent on insects for reproduction and sometimes insects or caterpillars can be fretful plans and it's all actually about circle of life. and that's what i really want to show people. and he does so with finesse. finally a 1st glimpse of the long awaited documentary about bob dylan's legendary rolling thunder tour a chaotic romp he made across america. of a 40 years ago. summer. of. the inspired dylan was back. again or an older forces.

directed by hollywood great martin scorsese who famously made the last spark in 1978 which was all about all dylan's back and co to go back and anyway this new documentary comes out and next next next will not spoil all we've got time for today check out meet the germans on line a. slash meet the germans all here every week at this time on culture thanks for watching and i hope to see you again at the same time tomorrow until then.

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