The Wednesday Chef is written by me, Luisa Weiss, a writer and home cook in Berlin, Germany. I used to live in New York City, where I edited cookbooks and blogged and ran around gaping at the wonders of the world around me. New York! Greatest city in the world. But in the fall of 2009, I moved back home to Berlin, where I was born, to write full-time. Berlin's pretty nice, too. It's taking good care of me.
I grew up in Berlin with an American father and an Italian mother. This gives me all kinds of questionable authority on food, and the ability to speak several languages. It also means I like all kinds of things: Leberwurst sandwiches and Pflaumenkuchen when I'm in Berlin; pizza al taglio and roasted rabbit in Urbino; dan dan noodles and char siu bao in New York. I am perpetually homesick, so I cook to anchor myself and find joy in the small things: a perfect apricot, the texture of sea urchin, the smell of bread baking in my kitchen. And writing about food seems to go hand-in-hand with cooking for me.
This website was started in August 2005 as a way of working through a mountain of recipe clippings from The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Nigh on six years later, that pile doesn't seem to have gotten any smaller.
My book, tentatively titled My Berlin Kitchen, will be published by Viking Press in a few years. Can you tell that I'm practically levitating as I type? This is my dream come true. If you want to read a little bit more about how all that came about, click here.
You can reach me at wednesdaychefAThotmailDOTcom, become a fan on The Wednesday Chef on Facebook, or follow me at twitter.com/wednesdaychef. My other blog, Berlin on a Platter, is where I write about Berlin and its food.
I grew up in Berlin with an American father and an Italian mother. This gives me all kinds of questionable authority on food, and the ability to speak several languages. It also means I like all kinds of things: Leberwurst sandwiches and Pflaumenkuchen when I'm in Berlin; pizza al taglio and roasted rabbit in Urbino; dan dan noodles and char siu bao in New York. I am perpetually homesick, so I cook to anchor myself and find joy in the small things: a perfect apricot, the texture of sea urchin, the smell of bread baking in my kitchen. And writing about food seems to go hand-in-hand with cooking for me.
This website was started in August 2005 as a way of working through a mountain of recipe clippings from The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Nigh on six years later, that pile doesn't seem to have gotten any smaller.
My book, tentatively titled My Berlin Kitchen, will be published by Viking Press in a few years. Can you tell that I'm practically levitating as I type? This is my dream come true. If you want to read a little bit more about how all that came about, click here.
You can reach me at wednesdaychefAThotmailDOTcom, become a fan on The Wednesday Chef on Facebook, or follow me at twitter.com/wednesdaychef. My other blog, Berlin on a Platter, is where I write about Berlin and its food.
