Into my all but its got this added. To the delicious christmas break you tradition in germany and you. Do you have i me clue what this is well maybe people from the United States knows this is a christmas pickle Many Americans follow this german tradition of hiding a single pickle in their Christmas Tree whoever finds it gets an extra gift this just one problem most germans have never heard about this custom you know might support the haiti rawlinson sets off to solve this riddle of the christmas because. Oh yes the christmas pickle a beloved in time honored german tradition at least thats what i was told. But im in berlin germanys Biggest Department store and i cant find a single one of these Christmas Trees where all the people of a luckily i brought my own. Where i come from. Many people. Hang a single mystery in Many American families. German tradition so according to this tradition the 1st person to find the christmas pickle in the Christmas Tree. But to be honest i havent seen or heard of a single christmas pickle in germany since ive lived here so im going to ask some germans during their Christmas Shopping if theyve heard of it. Are you having a christmas pickle on your Christmas Tree this year not that must be a tradition elsewhere its not a german. Cumbers not my Favorite Music christmas but. No christmas because. You didnt even have to explain it to santa in germany in fact 12016 survey found that 91 percent of germans had never heard of it. So if this tradition is in german where does it come from and how did it end up in the United States. With a Little Christmas magic im headed to the small German Village of now. To explore that a bit more. If anyone knows the origin of a particular glass ornament its the people of laos theyve been blowing glass 5097 and producing ornaments since the mid 19th century. Glass floor and it is the 4th generation to take over his family Christmas Ornament business. He hand makes and sells glass ornaments including the christmas pickle to buyers world. I. But actually he only learned about the tradition in recent years on a visit to california. I was asked also you also make christmas pickles and i just laughed but then someone else starts with the same question and then a 3rd and i started wondering what is it with these christmas pickles and then someone explained that its tradition in germany town a pickle on your Christmas Tree and that every american knows this i think oddly nobody in germany does president. That made him curious so he came home to search through his grandfathers glass molds from the 1930 s. I found this gerken mold since then weve been producing these glass pickles. Now he sells pickle ornaments to customers in places like japan norway switzerland and of course the United States. But if you just learned about this tradition then where did the story start well there are handful of legends surrounding the origin of the christmas pickle. One says that a prison guard took pity on a starving german born soldier during the American Civil War and allowed him to eat a single pickle with this act of kindness he was able to survive and began hanging a pickle on history each year. Some say it was this man frank w. Woolworth who needed a gimmick when he began importing ornaments from germany to the u. S. In 880 s. But maybe i need to ask someone who knows this Christmas Town the best so im eating laotian may or not but this man at las fact last winter. Founded in 853 this is the oldest still existing glass in town mr mayor do you know the tradition of the christmas pickle as its or am i not we were confused is the christmas pickle whats the point thats what we learned both abroad people are convinced the christmas pickle is an essential german christmas item. If they personally i think some clever marketing guy invented this. But since then hans been making glass pickles simply because foreigners believe its a local specialty of. Ok so i still dont have an exact answer but there might still be hope im going to talk to gary brass a local who came across the pickle tradition in his research for a magazine and im sure glad. So what can you tell us about the history of the christmas pickle helped me before i did some research and found out that some families had a tradition of giving the person who found the. Special Christmas Tree decoration on the tree the 1st or largest gifts on the screws to others as the good friends of the dots or the christmas pickle story originated by not square. So we may never know exactly where this pickle tristen comes from but it certainly is a little bit of fun and maybe one day the germans will know what im talking about but until then i have an idea. We will see later in the show well have more festive reports but 1st were off to england where well meet the creative caught his eye not in the song does he transforms classic cars into works of art which is shown at odds going to recent around the world and hes even been nominated for the prestigious turn up prize mainly though he just meant its cause. Theyre hard on wheels. Than he sunders a big u. K. Plays with existing models colors and shapes modifying the cars to achieve his vision. Im learning and when the designer takes his main automotive art project they tend to miss out on the roads of southern england hes living his dream. Is yours. Hes bringing us all a good smart. Hes a lovely its the brits call the pale. Teles lot good on record scope. Id approach a top overwrote to get it all just because youre so much of a royal because it is a baton goalball you and yet he has no because its a cult. Its a amalgam i should have everything. HAndy Saunders ambition is to build cars that have never been seen before he speers no effort nor expense of actually spreading the 17 years building these call. These 7 fires and i was going into this construction and he kind of doing this in my work with my passion. He started work on by catching this in 2003 its based on a rare vintage 1937 chords. The contours are inspired by the shape of a drop of. Most of his works are based on wrecked or derelict antique cars. Like this 1940 pickup truck and the sanders took it apart and turned it into his custom designed metropolis. When he said work on a new piece of automotive art time becomes an important. The kick you get out of creating this is it its not the art work but. You dont like it its there is a creation it doesnt matter how important a car is if the idea is important in here. Everything else is of no importance sanders 1st fell in love with old cars as a teenager restoring them in his fathers Auto Repair Shop when he took this one out for a spin and 984. 00 media from around europe took notice if you want to. Annoy 170 solid. Customs i dont know why did it or did it because. What i will said earlier ones will go on all day and they all call its never gone until i finish the sooners or finished ive lost interest as soon as he completes one of the vehicles he sounds or actions that are anti sanders through much attention again 2006 with his flattest. And heard him mention in Guinness World records in 20 tend to take on so western ideas of cubism to a 6. 2 seed beat and the media began calling him the banksia but out of with what you wish i could do because as quick as bikes you can take when youre doing stuff. The creation is easy and youre kind of rebelling against Everything Else i suppose thats where he started really i think it was the media that took him. Maybe because he was doing it just for fun. As in the why the. Sounders and take son and passion into his noble sculptures theyve already been displayed in several galleries in 2001 a few of his car creations were even nominated for the u. K. Music church arts prize the saudis the rest of my life i want to carry on creating things that completely got the ball up a remote more and got probably go another 200 calls that need to be dropping my dream of doing it to get better it was already. Of one thing we can be quite sure as far as Andy Saunders is concerned his next car will be his best and most beautiful of all. Travelling these days in times of the car one of its pandemic is quite problematic and will trip is something to dream about. Not really very realistic however you can actually experienced something similar on the Spanish Island of gran canaria on the 3rd largest Canary Island you can find 14 different microclimate zones my colleague candy dividing felt like he was travelling the World Without even leaving the island. Gran canaria is the island of many faces. There was quite a nice touch on iraq and i was with the thing here is that every corner of the island is different sometimes it feels like in the so hot. And others like the bahamas. Steep drop into ravines or overgrown jungle costs. I feel like im in the alps. For them. Its like a small world 2 or somehow all in one day on a single island. Im starting out in the desert at least thats what it looks like here in reality im strolling across the dunes at the must follow must resort. Here the trade winds shape and reshape the 6 kilometers of dunes on the island southern tip again and again. Its a natural spectacle and the vacationers love many hotels line the edge of the dunes more than 4000000 tourists came here in 2019 most were here for sun shore sea and mild temperatures year round. But i want to see the grand canaria that lies beyond the tourist scene so i head inland to the but im called the last 70 kilos by the ravine of the falcons. Here and say you know very nice place like the jungle here yeah for. Cattle also remind is showing me what the prime evil environment looked like on gran canaria back then most of the island was covered with jungle the further we venture into the ravine the clearer it becomes to me that the island was created by volcanic eruptions. The broncos the last 70 carlos is a popular place to go. Canyoning im supposed to try it but im an absolute newbie. To. The only more exciting than i thought its hard to. Thank goodness im well secured for the trip down. Nevertheless my adrenaline level is stating. That. I thought it was all over when i was lying there. To be honest it wasnt the most dangerous descent and it still was not so fun it would have the i much of gran canaria that they were going to have son then be saved and the places. A lot of heart but also we have like a few many t. Grades rabins with a lot of for. And not replace it with minutes or continued because of this is a combination between green things and see. A good place to stop and catch my breath this put. This little point on the island south side is known for its colorful anyways. And with a bit of imagination the little salt water canals could just answer easily be somewhere and it is. Only 50 kilometers north everything looks totally different this side of the island is green and for a time i get to valley is europes biggest coffee growing area. I want to head even higher up to the islands highest point the pico de. Mi dina takes me to ground. Norris mountain reaches. So much sometimes we get snow appear every year but from time to time its moves like a lifestyle you know the same time you could be down on the beach something yourself naked or in her swimsuit on a continent youd have to travel many kilometers to get such a different spot here so he went to shit in just a few minutes the world recouping i am going to read. Indeed here at nearly 2000 meters altitude its noticeably cooler almost like india. And nowhere else is the alpine glow so close to the desert heat passed on the ground come out. That was really an amazing work trip on this island and theres much more to the public than just the city. But. Baking cookies and christmas time is a longstanding tradition in many countries certainly here in germany you can even decorate Christmas Trees for them i myself have already baked for trays of christmas cookies but they are all gone but im not worried because he out soon lot experts at the baking. Cinnamon stars for the crossings and more of these cookies help get palatable primed for the Holiday Season susie corowa and touch us diva ruby king blog. The experts on christmas baking recipes really welcome to our christmas bakery but well show you how we bake christmas cookies in germany. Butter cookies are one of the favorites. Instead of white sugar catch us do you go back uses 100 grams of powdered sugar. For sugar spreads much better through the day when its a powder and you dont end up with these sugar crystals all over the dough and youll need 125 grams of cubed butter apiece and. 260 grams of flour a pinch of salt added sugar and for flavoring half of the nearly part not for the sugar. And friends that is right it is very very crumbly with the weve got a little kneading turned it bit by the data into a nice little tyke. The finished dough goes into the fridge for one hour. Now its time to cut out. The dough should be rolled out to about 4 millimeters thick. Cutting up the cookies this fall for one and all especially when done together with others. And have now we get together with friends and do our baking with them we take along the kids and its lots of fun hot coffee cutters or films and shapes and sizes as a for example are terrific was clear because theyre so spread out and dont have any fragile edges of the like with a carrot its a little harder then you have to use a spoon or some a little tool to present the tale of how to get the. Type where. The cookies are baked in the oven for 10 minutes at 100. 00 metre degrees celcius. Then comes the best part of the decorating the icing is made of powdered sugar lemon juice and food coloring. Youthful treat green. For more elaborate decorating colored sprinkles and white frosting can be used. Baking for the Christmas Season is a tradition in many european countries. Norway and sweden have their ever popular gingerbread. Austria has its shortbread cookies filled with charlie. A pride of spain of the polder onis a deep fried dough often made with only a crumbles on the top czech is known for its was nests made with lady fingers. And belgium and another lands the specular to spice cookies are essential holiday treats. Berlin blogger susan fate knows how this tradition got started. What they were baking cookies even back in the middle ages the monks did that in a monasteries to commemorate the birth of jesus christ it was also a sign of wealth the monasteries had lots of money so the monks baked and handed the goods out to the poor. Back then where spices like ginger cardamom all spices and cloves filled the air with the familiar christmassy of rules for a long time they were dogs reason europe and only used for holidays. Its important for them to be fresh and not already ground or taken from some drawer where they were stored for half a year because theyre around or fades very quickly now anyone who enjoys baking can whip up an enormous for riots of cookies during the Christmas Season. For the flock its also the custom to give them as gifts and everyones glad to get them. Every kind needs to be sampled at least once. A plate full of christmas cookies always seems to disappear in no time. To this in the german baking and cooking is what you can find on our you tube channel d. W. Foods in the segment cook it like a german chef felicitous team shows you how its done and she invites International Guests into kitchen. Interested in german cuisine this is visual for you. Hello and had come to cook like a german cook for the sistine presents some of germanys finest dishes to foodies from around the world. A lot of me have you done this before this will be my 1st time. Traditional german fare prepared easy to follow steps from the savory to the sweet weve got it all. Cooking like a german. Food. Like all cultural institutions right now due to the pandemic the famous lights are given tells orchestra can not perform in concert halls and so it comes up with a wonderful idea some of the musicians have decided to give free open air concerts all around leipsic from the top of a double decker bus. I like take double decker sightseeing bus converted into a concert stage on wheels from a pier lights in the band house of israel musicians play Christmas Carols for City Residents on the 4 advent sundays free of charge. Its a Welcome Break from the dreary pandemic lockdowns as horniest dare not call for a mish rethink really enjoy playing with my colleagues the real of playing together as an ensemble nobodys and i think we call it a this joy to work audiences to get to appreciate this beautiful music director and was usually the leipsic orchestra play some 80 concerts each year but because of coronavirus restriction his concerts are banned so a small group of orchestral musicians have begun performing in public and in front of care homes where many elderly residents struggle with social isolation the short 15 minute concerts meanwhile are a hit with lights and residents of all ages. Story talk it really is a brilliant project and having brass players performing Christmas Songs is the most festive thing you could do and that is friends internet is a beautiful idea right now without concerts and this brings the music to the people and just a music you instead of people to the music awards or you know what a good. Thing orchestra players take great pleasure performing in public playing up to 6 Christmas Songs on the buses upper deck while braving the cold Winter Weather which can be challenging says horn player seaman figure out there and stream and it gets very cold when theres the instruments intonation interaction comes your fingers get free card especially towards the end play 5 or 6 concerts per bluster. And your fingers do get stiff making it hard to grip your instrument or. I will today was find the argument afterwards to its with i think thats returns to the ban tells orchestra hall which is close to the public for the forseeable future but director on the yes votes remains optimistic there are projects like these motivators that we have to heed so many restrictions were banned from so many things so were excited to do the few things were still allowed to do you are musicians enjoy recording c. D. s or working on Media Projects inside the concert hall or your mom and playing from the bus so despite the cold weather armies with hot coffee and tea and happy to be performing at all you can support these noble concert tours show that with a little ingenuity we can still get into the festive spirit. Please dont forget to check us out on facebook go to our website for this weeks draw and a chance of receiving this back thanks for watching bye bye. 250 year old global music star beethoven. In his anniversary year he remains a powerful name on everyones lips. 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