Black & White Food Porn in Colors

December 9, 2010 4:50 PM

Choosing Beef With Jack O'Shea, Making Pfannkuchen (a sweet yeast dough fried in oil) with Lars Siebert at the oldest bakery in Berlin, Mannfred Otte baking Apple strudel and 6 similar culinary videos from The Department of the 4th Dimension studio . Also, Making Espresso in Venice, (CA). Other tasty topics at 'Perfunkt' with support from Emil Rathenau
posted by growabrain (11 comments total)

Jack O'Shea: the everyman's Hannibal Lecter.

I kid I kid. This is good.
posted by nola at 5:17 PM on December 9, 2010

To be slightly picky, Pfannkuchen is a generic German term for ordinary pancakes, as well as a local-to-Berlin term for these delicious buns with a jam filling and sugar coating on one side. In most of the rest of Germany, they're just called Berliner. A kind of un-holy donut made of a soft yeast dough, as seen here. Brilliant little clip.
I used to buy last day's Berliner at the bakery close to my school, during the great break, for half the money, meaning twice as many not-yet-quite-stale Berliner. I was more or less made of the stuff at the time.
posted by Namlit at 5:37 PM on December 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

I am a jelly doughnut
posted by growabrain at 5:41 PM on December 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

Steak Tartare.

Now I'm hungry again and I just had dinner.
posted by bonehead at 6:03 PM on December 9, 2010

Just about anywhere I go and ask for espresso they use that machine and it is no big deal...in fact, that is also what I got throughout Italy.
posted by Postroad at 6:16 PM on December 9, 2010

As Postroad implied, that guy in the "Making Espresso" clip is overthinking a cup of (coffee) beans.
not that what he says is untrue; just a bit - shall we say - overextracted.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:35 PM on December 9, 2010

Thanks for posting this. I love the Jack O'Shea videos in particular.
posted by Nattie at 6:42 PM on December 9, 2010

I love the videos of the bakery in Berlin. Thanks for posting.
posted by Evstar at 7:00 PM on December 9, 2010

I love all of these videos. Even the coffee ones, and I don't drink coffee.
posted by flibbertigibbet at 7:16 PM on December 9, 2010

Now I'm hungry for that steak tartare and a piping hot currywurst.

Yum.
posted by bardic at 8:53 PM on December 9, 2010

Jack O'Shea didn't actually say word one about choosing beef.
posted by kenko at 9:48 PM on December 9, 2010