white asparagus at this time of yeah the germans expert rachel stuart explains all what. 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 channel you must probably have some interest in this country and the people who live here rachel 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. who are. employed. yeah think of pink really has a german slang would for money and apparently comes from the sound of calling

putting together. welcome to you know meet them and health check ups will be running through some fun facts about health in germany they think the heat will get started let's play a little game of have you ever the home remedy edition how many might speed big even launch mountain belts yeah yeah to me it kept them on time clout on folks in hopes of. 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 me 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 still 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 the british. they do have got away with it for 30 years and you're right for the moment thank you let's see the 1st in the series and this is very topical as it's asparagus time right now here in germany and you wouldn't believe it but the germans eat 125000 tons of the stuff every year. just for love a decent length and respectable go and even if you can't quite tell from the sun this it will tell you when spring is the gun from april to june your life has more reason simply because it says. so you want to know what makes the germans kid 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 and soup in a salad on pizza with fish but the classic combination served up with pride is boiled with potatoes and home on the side it's best thing 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 but kind of bland so come on germany what's all the fuss about your why it's a spiral this. schmuck i'm talking to some some are different. from uncle charles you see that's going to bring school. right up to me and you could look to see outside vendors who thought it was crazy times that's because they've been hiding it said we just don't think. very much p.p. my friend. i finished boggle grows underground all tucked away in

a loosely patch mound as soon 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 write downs of the various asparagus takes up the largest area. you will and early on while there is limited so the prices might give you a bit of a shock 20 yours per kilos not out of the question and all season long you'll pay for perfection these are the discipline to she does body i know i'm true for. life you know the cutest. are god's will so why would the sheep buy no i didn't go down try to charlotte feed here on the bus must be perfect just i know it's my sis buy or go to buy so i'm sure lots of crop plants one centimeter long or 2 since one functions are going to be that big. this is speratus crazes a marketing dream the special pots and pianos and even a queen is crowned once

a year it was 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 kisha water bottle toward cherries red asparagus dead but what's seasonal but 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 raw and that would be great i don't think i'm going to manage it manages oddly 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 within the poem and you did that you did the rug i did just. as we sit here or not here but i saw

it this studio it's over 30 degrees everybody's dreaming of that cold beer after 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 took that be a very serious issue and then they started pouring manana juice so sometimes why do so and i would just say yes but it tastes quite good at famous say but i got to see 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 the bottle without a bottle of that maybe with the teeth or with the lights with this case or at least the whole very impressive is true that it's true although i wouldn't recommend anybody to use the teeth we should you know for my so now apart from big overseas they want to ban. we've seen the one on asparagus what else can we look forward to covering all sorts 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 where everybody's in the nude 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 jobs. i mean you live here on a difficult for me to do things that i'm quite simply his german breakfast is just really great bread cheese meat per white stuff weekend but i also really admire the germans love being outdoors. they take every opportunity they can whether it's hiking or campaign. rachel great to have you looking forward to the series thanks very much for. 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. has revived a rather stuffy art form with technology. he takes photos of single flowers and then creates digital flower arrangements on the computer sponsored 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. 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 database 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's always something that catches his eye just like the 17th century painter. it's. canvases to paint on and 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 digitally on and. he 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 vase so i do face is really the basis of this to 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 and more colorful just to keep it balanced. behalf of composing a painting has hardly changed since the masters were at work. the only difference today is that past may obs does everything digitally. good still life in my opinion is alive which is not though it has to have some tension in it and wanted to be very fluid and for that purpose i put

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

and. directed by hollywood great martin scorsese who famously made the last waltz back and 1978 which was all about dylan's back and cold go back and anyway this new documentary comes out and next next next week. that's all we've got time for today check out meet the germans on line. 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. click. on the.

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