Foodie Berlin Archives – Page 2 of 2

Joseph Pearson 14/04/201223/06/2018

Erotica and White Asparagus Season

Asparagus season makes me uneasy. This is a problem living in Germany, because Spargelzeit* is unavoidable. The alien fern crops

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Joseph Pearson 19/02/201223/06/2018

London in Exile: Literati, Scones and Hudson’s Cakes

Walk through this door and into the story of many English speakers in Berlin. Jim Hudson worked for an architecture practice.

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Joseph Pearson 01/08/201123/06/2018

Getting Messy at Burgermeister

Burgermeister (a play on words on Bürgermeister, which means the ‘city mayor’ with the simple addition of an umlaut) is a burger

Joseph Pearson is a writer and historian based in Berlin. His non-fiction portrait of Berlin was published in 2017. He published a second book, My Grandfather’s Knife, about how everyday objects tell World War Two stories, in 2022. His writing has appeared widely in the press, literary and academic journals, and has been translated into German, Italian, French, Arabic, and other languages. Born in Canada, he was educated at Cambridge University, UK, where he received his doctorate in history in 2001. He works at New York University, Berlin, and at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. Since 2008, he has written The Needle, which has become one of Berlin’s most popular blogs. For professional inquiries please contact his agency, Peters Fraser Dunlop, email him directly joseph [AT] cantab.net, or visit his professional website: josephpearson.ca