{"id":1875,"date":"2021-04-14T06:18:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/berlin-portrait-luisa-weiss-the-wednesday-chef\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:18:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:18:07","slug":"berlin-portrait-luisa-weiss-the-wednesday-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/berlin-portrait-luisa-weiss-the-wednesday-chef\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Portrait: Luisa Weiss, The Wednesday Chef"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Berlin Portrait: Luisa Weiss, The Wednesday Chef<\/h3>\n

by James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n
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We think that the best way to discover Berlin is through the eyes of the people who live here. For our\u00a0Berlin Portrait<\/a>\u00a0series, we’re asking artists, musicians and other interesting Berliners to introduce us their corner of the city. Join us as\u00a0Luisa Weiss<\/strong><\/a>, food blogger and author of<\/em>\u00a0My Berlin Kitchen, introduces us to her Charlottenburg.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Luisa<\/p>\n

How long have you been here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I moved to Berlin in December 2009, so the short answer is that I’ve been here for three-and-a-half years. But the long answer is that I was born here and spent my childhood between Berlin, where my mother lived (still does, actually) and Boston, where my father and I moved after my parents divorced. I went to high school in Berlin and then left for college in 1995. After finishing university in the States, I got a job in New York and stayed there for ten years before deciding to move home again in 2009.<\/p>\n

\"Luisa<\/p>\n

What brought you here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A combination of factors: my lifelong homesickness for the city and my love affair with my husband being the most important ones.<\/p>\n

Tell us about your Kiez, and what you like about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>We live in northwest Charlottenburg, near Klausener Platz and across the street from Schloss Charlottenburg. I wasn’t sure about the neighborhood when we first found the apartment. At first glance, it seemed weirdly anonymous. But now that we’ve settled in, I love it so much, I never want to leave. It’s a really peaceful neighborhood. Incredibly quiet and verdant, but it still feels like you’re close to all kinds of things, with the Schloss across the way and the Berggruen and Br\u00f6han Museums, among others, visible from our living room window. Klausener Kiez is a real mix of Turkish families, young professionals and old ladies – to me it feels very much like the old West Berlin I grew up in.<\/p>\n

\"Luisa<\/p>\n

What are your five favourite things in your neighbourhood?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can walk to the Antikmeile Suarezstrasse<\/strong>,\u00a0the Lietzensee<\/strong>\u00a0or the nearby Restaurant Engelbecken\u00a0<\/strong>in minutes, or I can get lost in the Schlosspark Charlottenburg<\/strong>\u00a0with its manicured hedges and gardens. I can have delicious B\u00f6rek from a wood-fired oven or organic tomato-fennel soup with a slice or two of Vollkornbrot from one of Berlin’s oldest Vollkornb\u00e4ckereien,\u00a0Brotgarten.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Especially now that we have a baby, I feel like there’s no better place for us to live.<\/p>\n

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