At the weekend he gave the first cooking course in his spice shop on the Platzl after his conviction, which is not yet final. The 74-year-old passionately explains what laypeople should really know before they start cooking.
The I-word falls at 10:24 for the first time, and the master has to grin a little himself. He knows, of course, that everyone was kind of waiting for it. He has a lot in common with this spice, and whenever the name Alfons Schuhbeck is mentioned somewhere, it is inevitably followed by the term ginger.