“Flavours of Kalamaja” is a monthly event series that takes place in the kitchen of the Kalamaja Museum. Cooking enthusiasts get together to prepare delicious dishes and try out timeless recipes under the guidance of Kalamaja’s current and former residents. Together, you can enjoy wonderful dishes and collect new recipes.

Flavours of Kalamaja with Maru, October 2022

“Flavours of Kalamaja” cooking events take place once a month, always at 18:00 on a specified date.

The next cooking evening is taking place on March 20th 18:00 and Daniel Teichmann will be teaching how to make bread.

Daniel spent the first 17 years of his life in Nõmme, Tallinn, but went to highschool in Pelgulinn. By now he has been living in Northern Tallinn for twenty years and during that, has become the father to seven-year-old twins. Daniel has a baker-confectioner vocational education and higher education in Estonian sign language translation. He began cooking in childhood due to circumstances: “I was a very early bird in childhood and did not want to wake up my parents on weekends. I started cooking for myself in the mornings. My greatest role model in cooking has been TV chef Jazz.”

Daniel began baking bread only a few years ago, inspired by his son’s question of when they would start doing it together. In autumn of 2024, Daniel became the bread baker of Rocca al Mare school: “I make thirty loaves of bread for a thousand four hundred people daily. I have participated in the Kalamaja cooking evenings for years and this time I will be teaching my own skills.”

The cooking event fee is 15 euros and attendance is permitted only with a pre-purchased ticket from Fienta HERE. Tickets are limited!

2025 dates: 16.01, 20.02, 13.03, 10.04. Specifics are to be announced.

See you there!

Previous events:

19th of September 2024 — Traditional Udmurt perepetch with Liubov Koobas
10th of October 2024 — Indian snacks and genuine masala tea with Katrin Aedma
14th of November 2024 — Indonesian favourites with Nabila Naritami
5th of December 2024 — Gingerbreads with Kalamaja museum employee and community friend Tuuli Silber

16th of January 2025 — Simple lasagna and chocolate cake by Linda Lainvoo

20th of February 2025 — Estonian national fish, the Baltic herring, in two ways and black bread

The autumn 2023 – spring 2024 season offered many exciting flavours. Many thanks to all instructors and participants!

In September, in honour of the Days of National Cultures, we made Brasilian Brigadeiros and Pão de queijos with Maris, Saskia and Thiago from Café Brasil on Volta street. In October, hobby cook Mart taught us how to make a delicious risotto, mozzarella salad and lava cake. In November, we made potato pancakes and Tom Kha soup with Argo and Jüri. In December, former Kalamaja resident Merike taught us the peppermint cookies recipe from her childhood. We also tried out Anneliis’ recipe for gingerbread cookies. In the first month of 2024, Ülle Okas taught us a recipe for spinach soup in our kitchen and shared fascinating stories about her life and her family, who have lived here for generations. To celebrate the anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, we made tasty sandwiches with Daniel. In March, Bianka Soe showed us how to set a table full of colourful salads and sandwich toppings. In April, Pavlo shared two different borscht recipes – winter borschs from Western Ukraine and summer borscht from Southern Ukraine.

The autumn 2022-spring 2023 season was very successful. Thank you to all the instructors and participants!

In October, we made apple tarts with Maru Metspalu. In November, we set up a timeless smorgasbord with long-time Kalamaja residents Anneliis Tõldsepp and Aita Raud. In December, we baked gingerbreads with Jelena Rootamm-Valter. In January, Daniel Teichmann from Pelgulinn taught us how to make delicious beer bread. In February, we baked pink peppermint cookies for Valentine’s Day with Merike Ojamaa. In March, we celebrated Theatre Month by preparing three different kinds of soup with Kristiine Truu from Teoteater. In April, we made herb and spice cheese porridge and eggs Birmingham-style with Kristjan Arunurm, the leader of Salme Theatre. Finally, in May, we were visited by Mexican grandmothers from the Secret Mexican Society who came to share their Mexican wisdom.