Rick Stein's Long Weekends

The chef heads to Berlin, where history and the avant garde dwell side by side. A city that once made history with its divisive wall and Checkpoint Charlie now teems with an overwhelming array of innovative chefs offering delicious seasonal creations, such as pureed sunflower seeds, Jerusalem artichoke flans and crushed frozen pine nuts. Loved by the likes of Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin and Auguste Escoffier there's still a cornucopia of choice for those with a more traditional temperament with eisbein, meatballs and sausages topping every menu in the German capital