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PIAPLANTS: ILLUSTRATED DINNER RECIPES RIGHT ON YOUR INSTAGRAM — RECOMMENDED BY MINA HAMMAL

PIAPLANTS: ILLUSTRATED DINNER RECIPES RIGHT ON YOUR INSTAGRAM — RECOMMENDED BY MINA HAMMAL

Motivating myself to cook at home can be hard – I never find time to sit down and go through those cookbooks I got as presents from friends and family. What I do always find time for is my Instagram feed – even on the busiest days. And every day, right when I finish work, I check on Instagram cookbook Piaplants and I know exactly what supplies to get for dinner. Pia Li Grau, a Berlin-based illustrator, started Piaplants in Summer 2019 and has been posting one recipe a day since then, complete with her lovely little illustrations. Many of the dishes take around 30 minutes to prepare, encouraging you to cook more often and eat more healthily on hectic days. I’m already obsessed and can’t decide if it’s because of the drawings or the delicious food. (Text: Mina Hammal / Photos & Illustrations: Moritz Peters & Pia Li Grau)

Berlin-born Mina Hammal is the founder of Hammal Production, creative production and consulting agency.

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TOOLBOT: THE SELF-SERVICE RENTAL KIOSK FOR DRILLS, SAWS AND MORE

TOOLBOT: THE SELF-SERVICE RENTAL KIOSK FOR DRILLS, SAWS AND MORE

Getting tooled up for a home improvement project normally means a costly trip to the DIY store or bugging your friend for their drill or saw. Well now there’s a third way with startup Toolbot, which lets you reserve and rent power tools with your phone. The super simple service lets you hire by the hour and pick up and return your tool whenever you want to – evenings and Sundays too. Just reserve the tool you need on the website and head to one of the self-service pickup points located in Spätis. Use your phone to unlock the tool and you’re ready to go. Consumables like drill bits and saw blades are either included or available to buy at the pick-up point, while handy how-to guides on Toolbot’s YouTube channel show you the ABC of cutting and sanding. Started by industrial designer Jan Gerlach in 2019, Toolbot is currently beta testing stations in Neukölln and Prenzlauer Berg. North or south, now there’s no excuse for putting off that project. (Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Savannah van der Niet)

Toolbot
@toolbot.de

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AMYWHO — THE SALON FOR CASUAL CUTS AND CUTTING-EDGE COLOR

AMYWHO — THE SALON FOR CASUAL CUTS AND CUTTING-EDGE COLOR

I approach getting my hair cut like I do pizza: I’m not so keen on experimenting. So for lunch it’s a margherita, while at the salon I’m content just getting my long mane tamed. The advantage here is you can compare different places to see who’s offering something truly special. And at the Amywho hair salon in the Bergmannkiez, the experience – and results – convinced me they were cut above the rest. Opened in April 2019, the place takes its name from founder Amy, a trained stylist from Leicester, UK, who has been in Berlin since 2013 and in hairdressing for 18 years. The look of the space is just my taste: the colored walls, concrete ceiling, mirrors leaning casually against the wall…not to mention the music. And with sound advice and a perfect cutting technique, the service is spot on, too. My colleague had her balayage done by Amy – a full color expert – and was equally enthusiastic. Whether it’s just a cut and blow-dry or a color transformation, you’ll step out feeling fresh. (Text: Nina Trippel / Photos: Pamina Aichhorn)

Amywho, Schleiermacherstr.25, 10961 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Tue–Fri 10–20h, Sat 10–18h, Mon 12–20h
@amywho_berlin

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A BIO BOOST FOR YOUR WATER — LIQUID HERB EXTRACTS FROM KRUUT

A BIO BOOST FOR YOUR WATER — LIQUID HERB EXTRACTS FROM KRUUT

Whether it’s teas, superfoods or tinctures, natural remedies and adaptogens are everywhere. Enter healing newcomer Kruut, whose little bottles of liquid herbs do things differently: they harness the power of the plants growing right on your doorstep. Founded in 2019 by plant pros Thorben and Annika, this Pankow-based herbal extract maker combines wild plants like goutweed, dandelion and yarrow with an acacia honey and cider vinegar mixture known as oxymel that has been used as a health remedy as far back as the ancient Greeks. The result is a sweet, delicately floral potion that’s perfect for giving an organic boost to your water. Just add a spoon of your chosen tonic – “ruhe” “wohl” and “kraft” are the options – and strengthen your armor against the season’s stress and fatigue. (Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Sina Opalka for Kruut & Maura M. Maschke)

Kruut varieties are available to order online.
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GIVE THE GIFT OF LITERATURE — 10 BOOK PICKS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

GIVE THE GIFT OF LITERATURE — 10 BOOK PICKS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

Time is running out for present buying, so let us provide some literary inspiration with our 10 book picks. Bringing fine food and drink to festive parties are cocktail bible “Cocktailian” and “Dilekerei“, a collection of exquisite cake and tart recipes by Wedding baker Dilek Topkara. Meanwhile, helping your coffee-loving friend go pro is Yumi Choi’s cafe business manual, “Das Coffee Shop Manifest“. Take your loved ones on a journey with Simone Hawlisch’s “Heimat“, where women from Finland to Australia share what “home” means to them, and “Walking Wild“, Livia Ritthaler’s guide to the best dog-walking destinations in Berlin and Brandenburg. For more fictional adventures, Deborah Levy’s Booker Prize-nominated “The Man Who Saw Everything” is an electrifying tale of a London historian’s time in 1980s East Berlin. Also looking East is Christof Zwiener with his book “nach 1990“, a curious collection of images of decaying GDR-era flagpoles that are an eerie reminder of the East German state’s omnipotence. For younger readers, introduce them to “Generation Greta” with Millie Marotta’s “A Wild Child’s Guide to Endangered Animals“, a beautiful picture book of creatures threatened by climate change. Just as striking is “Always Everything“, 372 playfully linked photos by Jan Von Holleben that are perfect for a rainy day losing yourself in fantasy worlds. Finally, for design devotees, “Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography” showcases Bauhaus designer László Moholy-Nagy’s typographic world, with previously unpublished materials from the Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Happy reading! (Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Sophie Döring)

Many of the titles here can be ordered online and collected the next day at one of our favorite local bookshops, Uslar & Rai.

“Cocktailian” by Mixology Verlag (2019, Tre Torri Verlag, 208 pages, German)
“Dilekerei” by Dilek Topkara (2017, Heel Verlag, 176 pages, German)
“Das Coffee Shop Manifest” by Yumi Choi (2019, 152 pages, German)
“Heimat” by Simone Hawlisch (2019, Knesebeck, 200 pages, German)
“Walking Wild” by Livia Ritthaler (2019, The Gentle Temper, 216 pages, German)
“The Man Who Saw Everything” by Deborah Levy (2019, Penguin, 199 pages, English)
“A Wild Child’s Guide to Endangered Animals” by Millie Marotta (2019, Puffin, 101 pages, English)
“Always Everything” by Jan Von Holleben (2019, Tarzipan, 372 pages, picture book)
“nach 1990” by Christof Zwiener (2019, Vexer Verlag, 360 pages, German & English)
“Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography” edited by Petra Eisele, Isabel Naegele & Michael Lailach (2019, Verlag Kettler, 256 pages, English)

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