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New Scandinavian Cooking and Claus Meyer in Ribe, Denmark 2010

20 June 2010 8:22 PM

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TV Chef Claus Meyer visited Ribe and the Wadden Sea as the only destination in Denmark in the television series New Scandinavian Cooking.  New Scandinavian Cooking is a cooking series but at the same time a travelling series, so you can look forward to both delicious food and beautiful filming. (Other names for the same: Perfect Day – Smag på Norden – Smag på Danmark)

Danhostel Ribe had the pleasure of Claus Meyer and his crew staying at the hostel for several days
while they were filming this program in Ribe and the Wadden Sea. Some of the program was filmed on the meadow just outside the hostel with Ribe Cathedral and the River as background. In this trailer you can see the view from the hostel (06:59-7:01), and on the film photo over this text you can see Claus Meyer on Ribe River – with the Cathedral on the right side  (06:37- 06:59) (the hostel is situated on the left side of the river)

 
The last programs in the Scandinavian Cooking program were shown in more than 60 countries all over the world.
Probably these new programs with world premiere in 2010 will be shown in even more countries, because Nordic food has been even more popular since in 2010 the Danish gourmet restaurant NOMA with the chef René Redzepi and 2 Michelin stars  – and chef Claus Meyer as one of the co-owners – won the unofficial “world championship” for restaurants “the San Pellegrino Awards”. It is the first time a Danish restaurant wins the price in the magazine ahead of restaurants as Spain’s El Bulli and Britain’s The Fat Duck. To help elect the best restaurant in the world were 806 chefs, gastronomers and food reviewers.
The other chefs in the cooking series are Andreas Viestad, one of Norway’s most famous TV-chefs and a respected food writer and Tina Nordstrom, who is by far Sweden’s most celebrated TV-chef.
We hope you will enjoy the trailer – though it is in Danish – but if we find it in English we will let you know. And if YOU find out before us please let us know

If you don’t know: NOMA means Nordisk Mad (Nordic food)
Enjoy this new  film from  NOMA, the world’s best restaurant 2010 (this one is in English…) – and read about the Food Snob’s visits at NOMA 

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Look inside the brain of the cuttlefish at the Wadden Sea Centre, Ribe, Denmark

19 February 2010 1:17 PM

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octopus-wadden-sea-centre-dkWhat is inside a cuttlefish brain? It should be highly intelligent. And WE BELIEVE it.
Once we (the host and his wife at the hostel Danhostel Ribe) were on a longer boat tour in the Mediterranean and one day caught an octopus (cuttlefish-blæksprutte). As it was evening we put in a bucket with a lit, and afterwards into a wooden box with a very heavy cover.  Our intention was to study it the next day. BUT:  The next day it was gone and we never saw it again.
What happened?  Where was it? How did it do it? Where did it hide? Could we sleep safely the next night? 

We also have cuttlefish in the Wadden Sea, and now we have the chance to find out what is inside its brain. 
The Wadden Sea Centre in Ribe gives everybody the possibility to dissect a cuttlefish every day during week 7 and 8 (skolernes vinterferie). 

We went to hear the nature guide tell about the cuttlefish and to look inside it. And YES – It is true that the cuttlefish is very clever.  They can even be trained to open lids from jars etc. and in some exhibition aquariums in the middle of the night they can find out to crawl into the neighbor aquariums and help themselves to a stomach ace. Next morning they will be back in their own aquarium and behave as if nothing had happened.

We also had the opportunity to follow a guide through the exhibition and see the multimedia show about storm floods to understand the consequences for those of us, who live by the Wadden Sea, if the water level rises due to global warming.  We could see some of the small animals from the Wadden Sea through magnifying glass – and at last just sit down and listen to Anisette from Savage Rose’s music and see the beautiful photo show of Jan Kofod Winther.

Read about and see photos from the Wadden Sea National Park, storm surges etc. here

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Documentary film about Ribe

17 January 2010 8:40 PM

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Danish TV have several broadcastings from Ribe during Ribe’s 1300th anniversary. Most of them will of course be in Danish – but our foreign guests may enjoy the pictures
The film is produced by TVSyd and shows Ribe’s nature (12 min):


 
Here are some of the subjects mentioned and shown: Ribe River (Ribe Å) and the boat Johanne Dan at Skibbroen, Ribe Waterway Lock (Kammerslusen), storm surges (stormfloder), and the water level as tall as a man inside Ribe Cathedral (Ribe Domkirke) during the worst storm surge in history, the marshland and Wadden Sea (Vadehavet) and its wildlife and migration birds – also the several thousand starlings that “dance” and are making fascinating formations in the air every spring and autumn. In Denmark we call it Sort Sol (Black sun)

The first of February you can see all 3 TVSyd’s films about Ribe on: this link

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Dear Obama, Lula, Merkel, Brown, Wen Jiabao, Løkke etc. gathered in Copenhagen

5 December 2009 10:40 AM

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storm-surge-pole-ribe-and-hostel-with-flooded-meadowThis photo shows the storm surge pole in Ribe and in the background our hostel and the highest water level WE have seen on the meadow. The pole is marked with metal rings showing the water level at the many storm surges that, through time, have flooded Ribe.  Ribe’s houses have not been flooded for almost 100 years. We also don´t want them to be flooded the next thousands of years.

Other places in the world the climate chance challenges are even bigger because of higher sea level, lack of rain, etc.

We hope you will make decisions that make a difference when you all gather from Dec. 7th to Dec. 18th 2009 in Copenhagen to United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15).
That you will take action in real solutions to bring down the world’s Co2 releases – and not just by selling CO2 quotas!
Our generation is obliged to think of the younger generation.

The 4th Dec. the Children’s Climate Forum 2009 with delegates from 44 countries finished their conference in Copenhagen with a declaration. The children emphasize that they will not sit back and watch. The time for talk is over.  They are committed to take action and they request the same of governments worldwide.
PLEASE don’t let them down.

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