Sounds from the Kitchen
by Stefan Rusconi
About a month ago I had the chance to sample a kitchen from 1565. Only wooden, stone and iron sounds. No electricity.
The “Nutli Hüschi” was built by Christian Nutli and is located in Klosters, Switzerland.
Winter in Nutli Hüschi
Schwiiz und quer from Tuesday, 26.1.2010, 14:05, DRS 1
Just imagine: Ten people and five chickens are sitting in the living room in winter. Wet clothes are drying on the stove and the lamp made of animal fat provides a meager light. The windows are opened as little as possible so that the heat stays inside. That makes for a stuffy atmosphere!
In winter, for example, people lived in the "Nutli Hüschi", a 450-year-old Walser house in Klosters in the Prättigau region of Graubünden. Today it is a lovely local museum with many interesting objects and stories.
Interview with Susanne Sturzenegger and Barbara Gujan
Bin dä Müüsch im Chäller
"In the cellar, Miggä had a terrible plague of mice today." This is how the story of Färberhans begins in the most beautiful Prättigauer dialect. It's about all the fine things that used to be stored in the cellar and the annoying mice that nibbled on everything.
preserving, smoking, drying, salting
The old Walsers in Graubünden were mostly self-sufficient. In summer there was plenty of everything, but in winter people had to live off the supplies. In autumn they were therefore busy preparing winter supplies. And the food had to be preserved. The most common methods were drying or preserving (fruit), salting (sauerkraut) and smoking (meat).
Barbara Gujan, director of the local museum “Nutli Hüschi” in Klosters, knows how it worked back then and Monika Grass reads appropriate stories about Färberhans in the Walser dialect.