A Group of people take initiative to help refugees in Lesvos - Greece. Your support is needed.

A group of people in ‪#‎Cph‬ are in the process of gathering and sending things to Lesbos in a container to the refugees in need there so if you're interested in contributing read on.

It's just everyday people, no NGOS involved or anything of the sort. The organisers are doing everything from collecting the actual things needed to funding the amount needed for the container.

How can you help???

1) Things needed:
They are currently collecting and sorting out a whole bunch of things which are necessary for the refugees who are arriving on a daily basis.
They need a lot of things ranging from:
Baby diapers
Feminine pads
Toys rubber or plastic
Big bags (for eg. IKEA)
Canned food (beans, corn, tuna, fruit etc.) with the ring on the can. Doubt they're carrying can openers.
Clothing
Used clean clothing and shoes.
Please be kind to classify thm in boxes or bags if possible and label with
Man
Woman
Boys
Girls
Baby
Keep in mind weather , so rain clothing or protection would be great. Baby sun hats are in demand too.
The deadline for delivering things is Tuesday September 1, 18.00 in Copenhagen and yes it is possible to contribute if you live outside Copenhagen too! see more info here: www.deppeandthelostsock.com
You can drop the stuff off at The Little Things on Vesterbrogade 161 until further notice. Ask for Anne. Opening hours: weekdays: 10 – 17 & Saturday: 10 – 14

2) Give 5, 10, 30 DKK or any amount you can for the delivery costs: 
Mobile Pay: 53 64 64 25 write LESBOS and your name
Bank Transfer: Reg: 4434 Konto: 4440646190

3) Spread the word!!!!

More info:
www.deppeandthelostsock.com
www.Thelittlethings.dk

Why you should help:

‪#‎Lesbos‬

‪#‎København‬
‪#‎containerprojekt‬
‪#‎deppeandthelostsock‬
‪#‎venligboernekøbenhavnogomegn‬
‪#‎syrianrefugees‬
‪#‎refugees‬

Danes love liquorice and we will never know why

The Danes love liquorice. They love it.
The chew it, they eat it, they cook with it, they consider it a candy, they put it in chocolate, in your lunch, in your drinks, everywhere! When you eat something you always need to pray that it will not contain liquorice. I have a colleague sitting next to me. Each time i will go to the toilet or to a meeting without my glass of water, he will throw a tiny piece of liquorice in it just to tease me. His name is S. and one day i will get my revenge.

I repeat: The Danes love liquorice.They are obsessed with it.
We will never understand why. Never.
The only thing we can do is observe them and accept this fact.

Denmark.dk visited the world´s smallest liquorice factory "LAKRIDS" in Tåstrup, DK and filmed how they produce this salty substance which Danes love so much.
Here is the video:

Æbleskiver: The Danish Christmas Donuts

Aebleskiver is a Danish dessert, somewhat similar in texture to American pancakes but light and fluffy like a donut. Traditionally served with glogg during December. Cooked in a cast iron pan that resembles an egg poacher. Served hot with syrup, jam or powdered sugar.

Check out how to make your own aebleskiver below:

Julehjerte: Christmas Danish heart :)

The pleated Christmas heart is a special Danish tradition.It is said that the famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen invented the braided heart, since the oldest known gloss paper heart was made by him in the 1860s. Christmas hearts consist of 2 pieces of glossy paper, which are braided together. 

The video below shows you how to make your own Julehjerte - enjoy it :)

Risalamande: The Danish Christmas rice pudding

Risalamande is a dessert traditionally served on Christmas Eve in Denmark. It is a kind of rice pudding, usually served cold and warm cherry sauce is poured on top (kirsebærsauce).

Portioned from a large bowl at the end of the Christmas dinner, a whole almond is hidden in the bowl of the pudding. The one who finds the almond wins a gift. The fun is to hide the almond in your mouth as long as possible so that people will keep taking seconds and thirds in an attempt to find the almond and win.

Have you ever tried Risalamande? Time to make your own! Kathrine from Metropolitan University College shows us how to make Danish rice pudding in the below video - enjoy it :)

ARKEN hosts "FRIDA KAHLO - A life in art" until January 2013

Arken hosts "FRIDA KAHLO - A life in art" exhibition until the 12th of January 2013.

From Arken's website:

"Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is an outstanding artist and a passionate power woman. Strong and independent, she is an inspirational role model. The exhibition offers a look at Kahlo’s oeuvre through a number of her most iconic self-portraits, drawings, pages from her diary as well as jewelry and dresses from her time. The works reflect her tragic life, embracing a horrible traffic accident and countless surgeries, tormented love for the artist Diego Rivera, affairs with both men and women, miscarriages and childlessness, as well as political activism." 

Read more here: http://www.arken.dk/content/us/art/exhibitions/frida_kahlo

We visited Arken and we highly recommend a visit.
Writing this post, we are debating as to whether it should just be a tribute to Frida Kahlo or to Arken and its various very interesting exhibitions (even for those who do not get along with art).
We have decided to just stay objective :)

Take a sneak peek of Arken:

 

 Frida Kahlo

 Frida Kahlo

 Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst

 Ciprian Mureşan - I am protesting against myself

ARKEN OPENING HOURS:
Wednesday: 10-21
Monday: Closed
Tuesday-sunday: 10-17

ADMISSION FEES:
Adults: 95 kr.
Students: 75 kr.
Children under 18: Free
CLUB ARKEN: Free
Groups (min. 10): 80 kr.
Pensioniers: 95 kr.

Read more about Arken here: www.arken.dk

P.S.: (it is going to be a quite big P.S. and it will have no relation to Arken)  

2011 - 1941 - 1938

A song, a writer and a painter

1938: After a tragic accident that changed her life, Fridha Kahlo paints "What the water gave me"

unfortunately you will not see this painting in Arken but we found the picture here

1941: Novelist, essayist, publisher and critic Virginia Woolf, puts on her coat, filled its pockets with stones, walked into the River Ouse near her home, and drowned herself. In her last note to her husband she wrote: 

"...If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been."

2011: Florence and the Machine have a new song. The title (i.e. "What the water gave me") is inspired by a painting of Frida Kahlo and the lyrics from Virginia Woolf's suicide...

“Lay me down

Let the only sound

Be the overflow

Pockets full of stones”

Must do: grab your friends and have a dinner in Vespa - Copenhagen

We have already mentioned this restaurant in a different post (read more here), but we cannot resist dedicating this post to Vespa in order to introduce you to the place.

Before visiting Vespa, we thought it was a quite high class restaurant: a quiet, calm, fine dining place... Well, it is not exactly like that. We would not recommend this place for a romantic dinner for two or for someone who wants to have a fine dining experience..

So what is Vespa?
Part of the Cofoco family, Vespa is an honest, easygoing, relaxed, simple restaurant that serves Italian food.
That's Vespa. It is in your face, it is clean, real and it does not pretend to be something else than what it really is: quite similar to the attitude of an actual Vespa if you think about it....

source here

And when should i go there?
Are you with your friends and want to have a delicious but at the same time fun dinner with loads of wine? Grab your friends and have a blast in Vespa! They have a special offer where you can have a full menu (antipasti, primo, secondo and desert) with all the wine you can drink (no limits) for around 400 DKK per person (when we visited the place the prices were at 400 DKK. We checked their website apparently now it is 425 DKK. Check their current menu here: http://cofoco.dk/vespa_menu.php).

And how is the food?
The food was great! Do not expect something super sophisticated. As we said Vespa is simple and easygoing. They have simple but delicious Italian flavors. What we loved was that in the beginning they bring you a lot of different antipasti. So right from the start, get ready to taste 10 different small plates of various delicacies.

 Insalata tiepida di polipo e patate – Blækspruttesalat med kartofler, persille, agurk og chili

 Insalata caprese con mozzarella di bufala – Caprese salat med bøffelmozzarella

Prosciutto di Parma – Parmaskinke

Finocchiona – Fennikel salami

Grissini e bagna cauda – Grissini med bagna cauda dip

Merluzzo alla Livornese – Friteret torsk med spicy tomatsovs

After all the antipasti, there are two more courses and a desert. Let's not forget that the alcohol keeps coming as long as you have chosen their special offer that includes the limitless consumption of wine :)

The desert: 

Susine caramellate con gelato al mascarpone – Bagte og karamelliserede blommer med mascarpone is

:) :) :) even though we were expecting something else, we loved Vespa just because it is down to earth. We loved the idea of having so many antipasti in the beginning and tasting all these different flavors. The wine offer was very appreciated :)

:( :( :( The place is small. Which is not necessarily bad, but it was very, very VERY crowded and noisy. There was no music in the background. All this noise and the fact that we were sitting very close to each other made us feel a bit uncomfortable and tired quite soon.


Vespa
St. Kongensgade 90,
1264 København K

Read more about Vespa in their website or in their facebook page
Also visit Cofoco website and facebook page to learn more about them :)