After a long time, let’s talk about the cuisine again.For example, about Hokkaido pumpkin soup.Hokkaido pumpkin also “Hokkaido” (Japanese: “Uchiki kuri” katakana: ウチキクリ), (scientific name Cucurbita maxima var. maxima Red Kuri) descriptive: “Japanese pumpkin”, is a cultivated subspecies of giant pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) belonging to the family pumpkin.Hokkaido pumpkins can be eaten raw, cooked in…
Month: July 2023
Four Days in Baku
In April 2018, I traveled to Baku, Azerbaijan via Constantinople. The reason for the journey was quite unusual. For my upcoming photography exhibition on architecture in Iran, I wanted to exhibit some photographs of the Heydar Aliyev Center as a counterweight. I wanted to contrast the “masculine” Muslim architecture of medieval Iran with the contemporary…
Ashura in Iran
I had the rare opportunity to attend Ashura in the city of Ashkezar near Yazd, Iran. In 2014, for the first time, foreigners, non-believers, were allowed to attend. According to their data, around 450 foreigners attended Ashura in Ashkezar in 2017. It was Sunday, October 1st. In the morning we took a minibus to the…
Coffee at Partizani
In April 2009, I traveled around Albania with a group of photography enthusiasts.Albania, then a land of poverty, bunkers, young people and Mercedes cars. Mercedes cars? You could see Mercedes on every corner. When you ask how this is possible, given the financial situation of most Albanians, they answer that Mercedes is a status symbol….
New York, Krizolog and Sushi
I was in New York for the first time way back in February of 1977. At that time, New York was considered a city of crime, mafia, pornography and more. Harlem was not recommended for whites to enter. Times Square was not yet at the crossroads of the world. My friends, the locals, were shaking…
Forever Young
July 1st 1978. I had recently been discharged from the YPA.I started working as a young architect in an architectural bureau. As a subtenant, I moved every few months. And chasing boredom.The late Mare comes with the news that Bob Dylan will have a concert in Nuremberg in early July. Are you ready to go?Bob…