Berlin Oil Connection

New year wishes and news from Berlin Oil Connection

January 1, 2025January 1, 2025 by berlinoilconnectionNo Comments

Dear friends of Berlin Oil Connection, Through this post, I would like to wish you a beautiful transition into the new year. I hope that 2025 brings us peace, serenity, and creativity. I wish good health for you and your loved ones. Although times are challenging, I hope that we all maintain a spirit of optimism and make this year as beautiful as possible. I imagine that I will see many of you in person at the Saturday market in a few days, where my stand will be there, every Saturday of January. As usual, I am writing to you when I have important news to share. Today is one of those days. This past year has been quite good for me in every way. The quality of the olive oil was excellent, as always, which is evident from your enthusiasm. This makes me especially happy because I truly love what I do. However, my farm produces a specific quantity of olive oil each...

The best way to prepare mountain tea

December 15, 2024February 9, 2025 by berlinoilconnectionNo Comments

Besides the extra virgin olive oil of my farm, several friends visit me at Schillermarkt in Schillerkiez at the district of Neukölln exclusively to get mountain tea (from Mount Parnonas), a sort of tea of exceptional quality and famous worldwide. Especially the tea from mount Parnonas has a very high reputation. People who often visit the mountain from all over Greece, it's the first thing they look to procure. There is even an old saying in Laconia that goes: “gather tea on the mountain of Parnon and oregano on Taygetus”. The older generations knew well that the mountain tea from Parnon is special. The same goes for me, of course. You see, I grew up with mountain tea. There are many times I remember my grandmother when I was a child, when every time I had a cold she would brew mountain tea from Parnon and serve it to me with local fir honey from the mountain and lemon she...

Berlin Oil Connection at MEET & EAT street fest: Friday, June 30th 2023

June 26, 2023June 26, 2023 by berlinoilconnectionNo Comments

Berlin Oil Connection would gladly like to announce that next Friday June 30th 2023, will participate at MEET AND EAT in Boddinplatz, near the metro station U8: Boddinstrasse. MEET AND EAT is a small street food fest in the neighborhood with various food stands, music, poetry slams and many more. Berlin Oil Connection will also have a stand at the street fest with extra virgin olive oil from our farm in Southern Peloponnese, homemade olive oil soap and organic herbs (Mountain tea and oregano) from the mountain Parnonas. Come visit us. For more info you can contact me here...

Why the Shillermarkt is the place to be on Saturday afternoons

March 26, 2023September 21, 2023 by berlinoilconnectionNo Comments

As beautiful as the neighbourhood schillerkiez around the Tempelhof Park is, so is the market that takes place every Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm at the Herfurtplatz markt (Shillermarkt) in the streets around the church. I of course, as a neighbour, have more reasons to love this market and my participation. You can't imagine how much I enjoy talking to the people I meet anyway on my walks and in the beautiful cafes of Neukolln such as Laidak. Okay I know, it's true there aren't that many beautiful cafes left in the neighborhood, however there is still a beautiful energy in several of them. However, the market around the church is not only beautiful because it has beautiful smiling faces that take a little walk every Saturday. It's beautiful because all of the colleagues seem to enjoy it too. Really how beautiful is the whole mosaic of different languages spoken by both those who visit the market and those...