About Ookie

I’m Anouk, aka Uki, or Ookie, … or A Nuke. I like to just do, what I do, in the best way I can do. Running detours through life, to exhibit new sights, try tasty bites and find light in the night. Maybe a bit more precisely…

How did I start my blog Ookie Dough?

Living in Hamburg in my teens, I developed a passion for specialty cafés. Coffee shops that treat the fruit as sweet wine, and eateries making heart-warming lunch bowls or innovative vegan burgers. I wanted to support these high-quality localities, and share them with everyone, but especially with visitors. If I were a tourist in Hamburg, I would have searched for local blogs to find cafés like Hermetic Coffee Roasters or Kropkå. I tried it out, searched the web and had no success. That is the story how I started Ookie Dough – to become the local food blog for Hamburg.

Those years I started working together with City Brief Hamburg, a simplistic city guide. Later I wrote coffee guides on European Coffee Trip. Also, my passion for design, stationary and local concept stores led me to some internships with Findeling.

Off to Fields in Berlin

I frequently visited Berlin, and biked through the city, to have brunch at Sweethearts or Silo. When the time came, I decided to move here and thought about studying architecture, media communication, or computer science. The latter seemed smartest for job opportunities – and I was secretly hoping to code my own website and perfect my blog.

After a few months of failing “Hello World!”, I dedicated my time to groups, rings, and fields and decided to study math instead. Good decision, it’s very effective busy keeping.

Maybe a bit too busy keeping. If I had 7 lives in parallel, I would try and become a triathlete, learn Chopin’s Scherzo No.2, start my own granola business, apprentice to be a baker, read some books on guts, brains and economy and take photographs of the small things in life. However trying to understand topology might overtake each and every one of them. Let’s busy-wait, and see.

Yours Sincerely,

A. Br