Explore Germany’s rich culinary heritage of seasonal and regional vegetable, fish and meat dishes, fruit desserts, while learning about herbs, their healing powers, and the century-old tradition of organic gardening.
If you love food and cooking and are tired of impersonal tours and tourist attractions, then this unique experience offers an authentic and private look into Berlin culinary lifestyle.
If you love food and cooking and are tired of impersonal tours and tourist attractions, then this unique experience offers an authentic and private look into Berlin culinary lifestyle.
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I have been inspired by consuming, cooking, growing, harvesting and serving fresh foods since I was a young adult. Raised in the countryside near my father's trout farm, I learned to clean and scale fish at age 8. In the summer and fall, there were grandma's vegetables and fruits, eaten fresh, preserved and savored in winter. Once a year my family processed a whole pig for roasting and for aspic. Trading trout against rabbit, boar, venison and other wild game was tradition of her father and his hunting friends. Even though, we have no trained cook in the family, I'm sure that these family traditions influenced my path in the culinary world. Being an art consultant and former galerist, a nature lover and science enthusiast, I always loved to gather friends and others from a spectrum of life, as agile thinkers around the table. Good and meaningful conversations accompanied by delicious food, is to me a natural way of finding joy, inspiration, and beauty in life.
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PARTNERS
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VENDORS
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Nora Novak
Nora Novak is a documentary photographer based in Berlin. Born in Dubrovnik in 1989, the escalation of war in former Yugoslavia forced her family to move to Germany in 1993. After interning in marketing and communications, she moved back to her hometown and started working as a photographer in 2012. Subsequently she returned to Germany and graduated with a BA in Photography from the University of Applied Sciences Europe (formerly BTK) in July 2018.
Inés Lauber
Inés Lauber is a member of the Schöne Heimat family. As a freelance food designer and chef, she considers food her creative material of choice to express and realize her ideas. Inés interest lays in exploring the diversity of cuisines found around the world: the histories, traditions, preparation, rules of etiquette, myths, and possibilities which surround food culture. Experimenting with food and creating new recipes based on a healthy, modern lifestyle is something she is truly passionate about. She was born and raised in South-Germany with parents from both former East and west Germany which gave her an understanding of the differences and the particular history of the country itself. Inés connects people through the international language of food and makes use of the power of interaction given by this incredible raw material.
Caroline Bienert
Caroline Bienert is a qualified nutritional therapist, motivating speaker and detox expert. She consults with us on health food related information, as health being of utmost importance to us.
As an internationally acclaimed metabolism expert, Caroline has been dedicating herself to health and holistic wellbeing for over 20 years to the benefit of her clients who come from a variety of backgrounds including entrepreneurs and CEOs, as well as celebrities and models. In New York she graduated as a nutritional consultant in the field of detox and orthomolecular medicine and gained further qualifications in Chinese dietetics and microbiological homeopathy in Munich, as well as Ayurvedic dietetics in Sri Lanka. Caroline’s holistic approach includes prevention therapies. An authority in her field, Caroline supports physicians in Munich and supports patients of prestigious private practices. Gabriele Diehl
Gabriele is a trained vegetarian chef and has been assisting Schöne Heimat. She has a passion for vegetarian cuisine and loves the challenge to turning traditional German recipes into modern vegetarian dishes.
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biokräuterei oberhavel
This farm for organic herbs, salads and vegetables delivers some of the best, regional and seasonal products. They follow tight principles of sustainable agriculture and work ethics and use non genetically manipulated seeds.
Natascha Kespy
Natascha Kespy, born in Berlin, lived for the most time of her youth in Southern France. At age 19, she returned to Berlin with the dream of becoming an actress. After her studies in acting, she worked for 10 years at various Berlin theater stage companies and toured with them through Germany.
Her son starting school prompted her to give up the nomad life. This unexpectedly coincided with meeting chocolate connoisseurs and set the stage for dedicating herself to the love for high-quality chocolate. In 2005 she opened her first Chocolate store near the Winterfeldtmarket and relocated in 2009, when the space of a former pharmacy became available. She seized the chance to move into this amazing land marked interior with her chocolate inventory of from around the world and add a cafe to the store. Lazslo Tot
Lazslo is a fruit and vegetable vendor at the Winterfeldtmarket. He was born in Hungary and raised in Serbia, former Jugovlavia. He grew up with vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, planting and gardening. When he came to Germany he got a job helping Mrs. Wieseler from Werder. After 13 years, he took over her business. Lazslo has wonderful produce from the region, but also unusual and very seasonal specialies from Poland, Hungary and Italy. He even found "Stilmus", a kind of spinach leave, which nobody else seems to know in Berlin. It's a specialty from Westphalia.
Stefan & Carsten Holst
Since 1994, founders Carsten and Stephan Holst dedicated themselves towards the discovery of small Champagne producers with excellent products. Today their inventory holds 60 different kinds of champagnes and also very fine German sparkling-, white, red and rosé wines. Stefan's and Carsten's mission is to find exclusive labels, small vineyards with distinguished quality and undiscovered products.
Olaf Meinke
Olaf Meinke is fish vendor at the Winterfeldtmarket and was born in Socialist Germany. Until 1990 he worked as a roofer, but had to quit the job, because of a broken hand. He then saw an ad, "We are looking for a Fish Salesman". Because he wanted to start a new, adventure and always loved fish, he took on this completely different job. Still loves it today, now being his own boss. Cod is his favorite fish. Olaf has a great fresh selection and always regional specialties.
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