This talk of Dan Barber is amazing, exciting and instructive, it opens avenues to a different way of thinking about food stuff. His view on food is so very much in line with ours from Biestmilch. It has a lot to do with our premise »our food is remedy«.
Dan Barber is a chef and a scholar – relentlessly pursuing the stories and reasons behind the foods we grow and eat. He’s the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill, in New York and Westchester, where he practices a kind of close-to-the-land cooking.
Lake of Constance in November. Since Tuesday I am in our office in Austria. The winter atmosphere at the Lake is very special. It is cold, but bright sunshine. Fannie and Sophie enjoy the freedom in the garden. Heavy mistletoe branches falling of the trees announce Christmas time.
Winter at the Lake of Constnace
Games, not always peaceful
Sophie and Fannie, peaceful coexistence
Mistletoe branch
In Austria kids are not waiting for Santa but they wait for the Christkindl. Even though Santa has become a very dominant character Christkindl does not give in to withstand its/her/his demise. Have a proof for its vitality by having look onto the Viennese Kristkindl Market
webcam spotting Rathausplatz of Vienna
Viennese Christkindl Market
Am Ende unseres Planungstreffens in Poysdorf, Niederösterreich, las Bernd eine zufällig aufgeschlagene Seite aus Hegels Werken vor. Der Sammelband stand in der kleinen Bibliothek unseres Tagungshotels. Man glaubt es kaum. Es war ein Kapitel über Heilmittel, das Allgemeine und das Spezielle. Neben der Arbeit hatten wir auch Spass, vor allem dann, wenn die Konzentration schon auf Null gesunken war 
Redaktion und Regie des Beitrags: Fritz Oelberg (vulgo Fritzi)
Both are interrelated and overlap. This TED talk involves two subject that interest me a lot. Quantum physics that slowly and beyond the awareness of people is undermining and finally pushing aside the metaphors that have been dominating society and its language since the dawning of the industrial age. Lee Smolin is a quantum physicist. His way of thinking interprets the world differently by using different metaphors.
The second subject is how society and the production of scientific facts are intertwined and influencing each other. Lee Smolin is not exactly outlining his talk in the same way as I receive it. My perception as a listener is more directed towards the flow of metaphors that mirror processes within society including the various scientific disciplines. Therefore I changed his title as an act of democracy from »How science is like democracy« into the above.
Lee Smolin, a theoretical physicist from Ontario, Canada. He is working mainly in the field of quantum gravity. He’s a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada, and the author of The Trouble With Physics.
Everybody focused: Elisabeth, Bernd, Johannes, Harry, myself
A short break: Fritz, Elisabeth, Harry, Herwig
Lost in thoughts: Harry and Arne
Little Sophie always in the picture: Arne, Sophie, Leopold
Late in the day: myself, Elisabeth, Harry, Sohie, Arne, Leopold, Herwig, Bernd
And in the end: Bernd playing the horn
Planning is definitely an important thing to do. It is so much more creative and productive, painful and amusing in the same time if you plan and decide in a group process. This is why our team met in Poysdorf, a lonely place in the countryside of lower Austria, for 2 days. Except of 2 we are all Austrians (8 out of 10).
View from our hotel
The place is 10km from the Czech border and really lonely, especially in November. Together we tried to tame biestmilch, the snake with the seven heads …
1st day: Fritz, Harry, Herwig are still fit
I think we managed to outline 2009 fairly well, but I don’t think that we really touched grounds yet. It was the first meeting of the team in this configuration, a good beginning. First of all we discussed the relaunch of biestmilch that will take place in spring 2009. Tuned in to 2009 but tired we all left this peaceful place.
In the end exhaustion is visible
Bevor Morgen der Ernst des Lebens beginnt, streunen wir noch schnell im Regen durch Wien. Endstation Kaffeehaus, was sonst in Wien?!
