Creative seafood dishes. Behind the scenes a day in the life of opera singer elders i speak. Up in the air amazing art from a birds eye view. Youve heard the saying that too many cooks spoil the broth for but for two german chefs on the island of their collaboration has been a crowning achievement your home is king and young philip bana have been named chefs of the year by the prestigious restaurant guy gold mijo now its quite unusual for dual to receive this honor so we traveled to so to meet the Award Winning chef and find out what exactly caught the attention of the food critics. Early in the morning on the north sea island of suit when the tide is out top chef you honeys king makes his way to his oyster bad november and december is oyster season here he knows that the by valves have eaten their fill in the summer and are now ready for harvest. King has lived for two decades. He tells us what to look for in an oyster. The aroma is very important and an oyster must look good lets look sexy you know most of its been poked delivers no fun it was elegant in the in its shell just like this it should shine it has to smell like iodine like salt and have its own brine and. Then you eat it. Tasty after that. His colleague head chef landfill abana is pleased to get the fresh oysters which he serves up raw or cooks bennett and your highness king have been named germanys chefs of the year twenty nineteen by restaurant guide. Seafood is a major ingredient in their dishes. In winter the cape of this in winter of the colder the water the better quality the seafood or its not true so naturally we focus even more on seafood. Possibly but that doesnt mean you wont find any meat on offer if i always make sure we have a very varied menu i want to offer guests lots of local ingredients and show them our philosophy and i want to cook different kinds of dishes and. Steamed oyster with sauteed collie flower and black tang seaweed its a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach. Germanys chefs of the year work right by the sea at the Hotel Restaurant is the thing for in the village of. Guests experience the north sea up close they can take a stroll on the beach right behind the hotel. Just discuss the upcoming day you have is king is the Business Manager and its his job to acquire the ingredients his younger colleague is in charge of the kitchen we can both do everything we take turns one might be more the shopping the other more preparation that where we can share the load and then one down into you know youve got your team behind supporting you its a good feeling to know that someone has your back stop you mentioned. In the north of the island near the village of list you have is king knows just where to go to find mussels snails and black tank seaweed now there is a blossom here ive taken a bit of black tank and you can just pop it in the boiling water for a short time and then its green as grass also make a bed of it and put some oysters mussels arrest cargo on top and you cant get more natural than natural if you have a couple of nice blue muscles which we can find here and these mud snails which the french call bewas cargo the flies the meat is one thing but the sauce we can make with them is divine so we use them for various things and we collect them here and theyre prepared fresh so they taste good but not try to be all. This time young fella down there uses the fresh mussels for a target dish with fish puree garnished with watercress. Stems. Herbs flowers and vegetables also play a major role in the two chefs corn a cuisine. You have this king planted a garden specially so that he and his team could learn more about plants like lemon verbena broccoli capital and roses wild roses flourish on the island. And. Young philip is preparing a plum dessert with rose petals. And jewels in just about every dish we make year round weve tried adding roses at least once these are candy petals theyre brushed with eggs white sugared and baked are on the fragrance is incredibly deep and dense which is a lot of fun now will add a little vin a gret. Passion for detail hard work and a deep appreciation for the treasures of the island of zealot has to offer thats the secret recipe thats one your highness king and john philip down on the title of germanys twenty nineteen chefs of the year. During our natural brief look at other stories making headlines on the culture scene. Queen moderated of denmark design the say then some seventy costumes for this production of the nutcracker tchaikovskys classic christmas ballets being performed at the tip of the feeder in copenhagen through december twenty third. The danish monarch has been showing her creative side in theater and ballet productions for more than twenty years. That she believed which is celebrating its one hundred seventy fifth birthday draw some four million visitors each year. Are curious auction house has put a rare night team thirty nine out for wilma. On display at an airport hangar in paris the vintage alfa romeo c. Twenty nine hundred b. Barely nafta is scheduled to go under the hammer early next february its expected to fetch up to twenty two million euro less than fifty of these cars were produced. The vintage vehicle is in very Good Condition and actually still uses the original engine. Icelands legendary youll catch the. Has gone back on the prowl in downtown we keep. The price tag is a local tradition. According to icelandic folklore the giant. Of the countryside during christmas time and gobbles up children who havent received new clothes for the holiday despite its vicious nature that is surprisingly popular. In one thousand eight singer bjork even recorded a song in its honor. Love. Most kids at the age of six are only focused on playing or perhaps learning to read and write or for the opera singer elsa good ice age of six is when she started performing on stage not too surprising since her parents were Opera Singers but now at twenty seven she has a leading role in the day. And that is where we caught up with her to hear more of her story. That. My name is. Im twenty seven years old have french and have to. Im going to offer a singer and today is a work day for me. And im singing the same. Its like a second home for me. Work day begins with warm ups and vocal training. Quite how come today i really dont feel like singing at all but i have to. So its like a little fight with myself i tell myself i have to do so but if i end up forcing things i know that afterwards my vocal cords will simply say good bye. He is. Back stage the singers are pretty relaxed many walk around in france robes and slippers. And my close and my greatest wish my dream is to constantly renew myself. To never suddenly think ive reached my limit i cant go any further sushi of assisting good can be white again. I need these shoes. I. Was. The same wrong another hairstyle elsa device which is once again singing the role of your set in the opera the day. The singer with the stunning voice studied in paris that might see her parents are also opera singer its. Been this brunos i think performing on stage since i was six but theres a great picture i have to show you this photo reveals so much about my life up until now well thats if i spent it all on stage even at six or seven and you see how happy i am its been. Backstage during the performance she prepares her next rulin stay opera. Oh my. Smitten bizarre thats been stolen is the state im in is brilliant this is really my city. Kind mother isnt here my father isnt here but this is really where i feel at home. For stake here is the spin ish to how. Its time for the curtain call. Elza device back in costume once again at the end of the day to take our final bow i. Think i. Mean i am sorry but i have to say im relieved because a couple of people told me that it was really good. After the show she autographed copies of her debut album and there was another day in the life of an opera singer comes to a close. Some works of art go beyond the scale of a gallery or museum and in order to admire them in their full beauty the viewer has to take to the air for a birds eye view well for this weeks high five series we have collected some examples of what im talking about so here are. The five european artists whose works are best enjoyed from on high. The beach is his canvas and an old rake his only paint brush with the patterns and he could toss straws are one of a kind. In fifth place on our list of birds eye art from the island of jersey the jersey sandman his creations are ephemeral. Sometimes the tide comes in before he can even take a photo. Of the car mirrors but this man isnt running a scrap yard hes a german artist who plays with the light and mirrors in unusual places like here in the theater of the city of verona in fourth place on our list of artists who works are best enjoyed from above. Hes also left his mark on places like lancer wrote in the canary islands. And in ireland his first mirror installation was in the nippy and desert and it was even visible from outer space. This work of art is a bit more grounded you might say it took just a tractor and a cornfield in italy to make in third place the farmer of european art from italy down. His large scale field paintings only last until the field is replanted. This artist likes to blend. His subjects into the background this project by british photographer joseph ford is known as needed camouflage one photo in his series one hand the number two spot on our list of european artists whose works are best appreciated from above. This super smiley features british musician fat boy slim. Wearing an extra large knitted pullover to match the oversized smiley face. This artist also needs to wrap up in much more than a warm sweater though. He likes to spend his winters in the french alps trudging designs into the Snowy Mountain side and thats earned him the top spot on our list of artists whose works are only visible from the lofty heights british no artist simon back in his geometric creations are often as large as three soccer fields and a munch to the beauty and grand jury of the alps. Puppet theatre is not just for children as the puppet tears half the short have proven this artist do or from does that or has made a name for itself through its puppet performances made for adults now were not exactly sure why they use english and german to describe their act but their performances are entertaining all the same. Its a heart wrenching story and unhappy girl stuck at home she isnt allowed to play with her toys until shes practiced her piano this short film with puppets by the Award Winning do your half past which translates as half past your fault for twenty years theyve been the lighting fans with their trademark mix of puppetry and acting theatre in film. And this is what my gosh a colleague and frank on the look like in real life to mark their anniversary theyve put together an exhibition at dusseldorf Theatre Museum difference three we feel quite privileged to be able to do what we do we dont take it for granted there is a nice thing and for twenty years weve been able to do handicrafts make music and record on shows in this puppet fringe c. R. Weve chosen for ourselves. The exhibits provide a glimpse of what goes into their Creative Process from initial sketches. To puppets from various productions. To a few of their favorite life sized sidekicks. Busy even a look behind the scenes at the technology that helps bring their puppets and props to life these days many of their puppets include robot elements. The puppet here stands behind it in operates the latex mouth or only the eyes are animatronic. Someone lying on the ground uses the joystick to operate off three pairs of eyes to make them blink look to the left and the right. You have to plan a survey open and close at just the right moment. Of. The props and puppets are operated by hand and theyre all hand crafted needin frank have their own studio where they and their team spend months designing building the puppets theyll use in the next show they always start with the story they want to tell. And then gradually with great attention to detail that story has brought to life. Bitter rivalry in this short film passions are about to spill over. After twenty years of collaboration the two puppets years are more than just a team. Weve both kind of become part of one another were friends were colleagues and we do also sometimes hate each other we go through the whole range of emotions that you can think of. Their career as a puppet two years came about almost by chance in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and frank plan to spend a few months travelling through italy working a street musicians on their very first day they were robbed they had to come up with an idea for a performance on the spot to scrape together enough to eat and drink. So we had all these characters who shared a house a man who didnt want to die a junkie an insect collector basically perfect for a tally and streets for example jesus was a super hero of course some people thought a christian freak band and others thought yeah cool all thats punk rock. Half past the. International scene thats been turning the idea of puppet shows on its head. Even invited other groups to take part in dusseldorf first ever festival of puppets on film in early november but watch out these are puppets for children. Well half past shows is just one example of some things typically german here in germany you will often find and german all mixed up whether it makes sense or not but its all in good fun which brings us to our new series on facebook heres more. So. One two week cartoonist and we go from them this pokes fun and. Typically germany idiosyncracies. So we go weak german humor. I dont know but today you are max facebook. This week in our series christmas treat were visiting the must see Christmas Markets around germany and making sure that weve taken all of the goodies on offer and today were off to heidelberg where the entire old town has been transformed for the holidays needless to say in order to take it all in you have to spend quite a long time outside which is why a mug of blue vine or spice mulled wine can really hit the spot. High above the neck of river the landmark castle is in full view in the had been period heidelberg town turns into a giant Christmas Market boasting one hundred forty stands the ice skating rink at carls plots is a favorite with children meanwhile the grownups huddle because interests alike get to warm themselves with mold why a must for every Christmas Market. Source says i love the fragrance and the taste of it it puts christmas in your stomach its fine but enough. We do enjoy it with this genius. Try again next time. In the Christmas Market in heidelberg old town Christoph Schneider has been serving multi wine for the past twenty seven years whenever theres a low he lifts the pot lid and lets out the fragrant steam to draw more customers. Christophe snyder is especially proud of his mold milo its less sweet than conventional mulled wine. When you give people say the drink three or four women still dont have a headache the next day. The grapes for the wine grow on the slopes the autumn you live vineyard and lyman is a twenty minute drive from heidelberg. Wine growing much in the know offers mulled wine not only in a classic red variety. In white and even thing. Traditionally mulled wine is made of red wine which is how we make it and then lets but in recent years theres been rising demand for white wine because white wine has list hadnt. Which is why people want to white mulled wine and for good. And in heidelberg we have a third variant i rose a mold wine. And it was made for pink monday my Charity Event for an aids organization. But what is responsible for that special Christmas Eve taste of mulled wine Natalie Miller who works together with her husband reveals a family secret. This lets have nothing to hide and a recipe i still use today is a very simple recipe from a great grandmother. Talking in terms of the ingredients we use just three spices cloves starting nice and cinnamon and the fruits a classic lemon and orange. The ancient romans used to spice and sweetened their wine when it was too sour in the middle ages people believed in the Healing Properties of the fruit drink in Germany First became commercially available in large quantities in the one nine hundred fifty s. Back in. The old wine goes well with the hardy winter specialties like potato pancakes and mushrooms. There are a surprising number of mulled wine stands here. Local people say wine is simply a traditional part of the heidelberg lifestyle. Of the falcon and this is my first mulled wine of the year and the fragrance goes through my nose into my entire body and gives me such a feeling of home but i feel very secure well. And with that the city of hyderabad is well equipped for the cold winter season. And now is a good time to let you in on this weeks drop in light of the Christmas Season we are also getting in the spirit with certain traditions and one involves saying the song silent night so of course we would like to hear your version just go to our website to see how to take part and by doing so you can qualify to win a cd and the original wooden christmas pyramid and with that we are out of time as always for me and the rest of the crew here thanks for joining and well see against mark. Next time on your own lacks a limp dick champions skating show stars a young awesome change girl and bruno muscle are among the worlds best pair skaters now their stories for holiday on ice the show that has been thrilling audiences for seventy five years this Years Productions are more spectacular than ever and we take a look behind the scenes fabulous thank you skating next time on your own max. Law. China is conquering the tomato Market Knowledge of Global Business a. 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