Ein Sack Mut voller geliebter Würze.

Anca Munteanu Rimnic, bildende Künstlerin, «Die for Life»

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My time at Neumarkt was life and art as a Roti Sans Pareil*: a surrealist film from the 30s, packed inside an expanded cinema experiment of the 60s, stuffed into postmodern public art, wrapped in contemporary European theater, then baked until crispy on the outside, oozing juicy succulence when sliced open like the eye in Buñuel’s «Un Chien Andalou». Neumarkt was a truly transformative experience for which I am grateful, and it has a special place in my heart forever!

* Roti Sans Pareil is a recipe from «Almanach des gourmands», an 1807 cookbook written by ­Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de la Reyniere. The dish consists of a bustard stuffed with a turkey stuffed with a goose stuffed with a pheasant stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a duck stuffed with a guinea fowl stuffed with a teal stuffed with a woodcock stuffed with a partridge stuffed with a plover stuffed with a lapwing stuffed with a quail stuffed with a thrush stuffed with a lark stuffed with an ortolan bunting stuffed with a garden warbler stuffed with an olive stuffed with an anchovy stuffed...