My relationship with pasta salad had a rough start. The first time a pasta salad crossed my path was at a student party, the pasta was way beyond all-dente and drenched in store bought mayonnaise, the few defrosted peas that were added to this mix couldn't...

I studied in the south of Germany, in the beautiful and very green city of Freiburg near the French and Swiss borders. If you ever get run over in Freiburg it will be by a bike or a tramway. The people there are very outdoorsy and even in the winter you...