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An independent, non-commercial editorial publication. Last updated 17 August 2026.

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Angaben gemäß § 5 DDG und § 18 Abs. 2 MStV.

Website operator

Yogesh Dutt
Herzogenfeld 3
51519 Odenthal
Germany

The address above is a private residence, stated because § 5 DDG requires the operator's address to be given. It is not business premises and receives no visitors; callers cannot be seen there. Correspondence of every kind — legal, copyright, privacy, data protection or editorial — is dealt with fastest by email or through the contact form below, and reaches the same person either way.

Contact

Email: abodeofyogi@zohomail.eu
A contact form is also available at abodeofyogi.com/contact-abode and provides a further means of rapid and direct communication. Enquiries of every kind — legal, copyright, privacy, data protection and editorial corrections — may be submitted through either channel and are read and answered by Yogesh Dutt personally.

Responsible for editorial content (§ 18 Abs. 2 MStV)

Yogesh Dutt, at the address stated above, habitually resident (ständiger Aufenthalt) in the Federal Republic of Germany. Yogesh Dutt is solely responsible for all editorial content published on this website. There is no editorial board and no contributor network.

Nature of the offering

This website is an independent, non-commercial editorial publication. It is not a company, carries no advertising, sells nothing, operates no affiliate links and earns no commission. It is nonetheless an offering directed at the public within the meaning of § 18 Abs. 1 MStV and a journalistic-editorial offering within the meaning of § 18 Abs. 2 MStV, and these particulars are given on that basis.

VAT & trade registration

No value-added tax identification number pursuant to § 27a UStG has been issued, and no trade registration (Gewerbeanmeldung) subsists, as no commercial activity requiring either is carried on. Should this change, this entry will be updated and dated before the change takes effect.

Regulated professions

No regulated profession within the meaning of § 5 Abs. 1 Nr. 5 DDG is exercised through this website; accordingly no professional chamber, professional title or professional regulations fall to be stated.

Consumer dispute resolution

The website operator is neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle). No reference to the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform is given, as that platform has ceased operation and no goods or services are sold through this website.

Applicable law

To the extent legally permissible, the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany and applicable European Union law apply to the operation of this website. A German-language version of these legal notices is available on request.

Privacy Policy · Datenschutzerklärung

Data controller

Yogesh Dutt
Herzogenfeld 3
51519 Odenthal
Germany
abodeofyogi@zohomail.eu

All privacy enquiries and requests under the GDPR may be submitted to the email address above or through the contact form, and are answered by the controller personally. No Data Protection Officer is appointed, as the thresholds under Art. 37 GDPR and § 38 BDSG are not met.

Scope

This Privacy Policy describes how personal data is collected, used and protected when you visit or interact with this website. Where visitors are in the European Economic Area, the GDPR applies. Where other data-protection laws apply based on the visitor's jurisdiction, those protections remain unaffected.

Data collected

When you use the contact form or write to the published email address, the controller may collect your name (if provided), email address and message content. This is used solely to respond to your enquiry and is not used for marketing. For technical operation and security, Squarespace (the hosting provider) may temporarily process your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring page, and date and time of access. Providing data is voluntary; the only consequence of not doing so is that an enquiry cannot be answered. Please provide only the data necessary for your enquiry, and do not submit special-category data within the meaning of Art. 9 GDPR (for example data concerning health, sexuality, religion or political views) or other highly sensitive information through the contact form or by email. Correspondence may be read, drafted and managed with the assistance of software, including AI-assisted tools, used under the controller's direction; the response, and the decision to send it, remain the controller's. Where such tools involve a processor, appropriate safeguards apply, and personal data contained in your enquiry is not used to train artificial-intelligence models.

Legal basis for processing

Responding to enquiries — Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in answering correspondence); where an enquiry concerns a possible engagement, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR
Website security and technical operation — Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR
Non-essential cookies — Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 Abs. 1 TDDDG (consent)
Legal obligations — Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR

Automated decision-making

No automated decision-making, including profiling, within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR takes place on this website.

Children's data

This website is intended for an adult, general audience and is not directed at children. No personal data is knowingly collected from children within the meaning of Art. 8 GDPR. If you believe a child has provided personal data, please contact the controller and it will be deleted without undue delay.

Data retention

Contact form submissions and email correspondence may be retained for up to six months following the conclusion of communication, or longer where a statutory retention obligation applies. Technical server logs may be retained for up to fourteen days. No user accounts, customer profiles or marketing databases are maintained. No newsletter or marketing mailing is operated, and no marketing communications are sent.

Data sharing & processors

Personal data is not sold or rented and is not shared with third parties except as necessary for the technical operation of this website. This website is hosted by Squarespace, which acts as a processor under Art. 28 GDPR. Links to external social-media profiles (for example Instagram and LinkedIn) are provided for convenience only; those platforms are independent controllers with their own privacy policies, and no social-media tracking is placed on your device by this website without consent.

International transfers

Personal data may be transferred to and processed in the United States by Squarespace, Inc. Such transfers take place on the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision of 10 July 2023 concerning the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework, where the recipient is certified, and otherwise on the basis of Standard Contractual Clauses pursuant to Art. 46 Abs. 2 lit. c GDPR. A copy of the applicable safeguards may be requested using the contact details above.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right of access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20), and to object to processing based on legitimate interest (Art. 21). Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The authority competent for this website is the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf. That is not the only route open to you: under Art. 77 GDPR you may equally complain to the supervisory authority of the Member State of your habitual residence or place of work, and you are not required to approach the German authority first.

International visitors & other data-protection laws

The rights set out above are applied as a baseline for every visitor, wherever in the world they are, rather than only for those who can compel them. Where the law of your own jurisdiction grants further or different rights — among them the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, the Swiss FADP, the California CCPA/CPRA and comparable United States state laws, PIPEDA in Canada, the Australian Privacy Principles and New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020, and the LGPD in Brazil — those rights apply in addition, and any request is handled to at least the standard described here.

Two points are stated plainly because they are what most of those laws are concerned with: this website does not sell or share personal information, does not use it for cross-context behavioural advertising, offers no financial incentive for data, and does not treat anyone differently for exercising a right; and no personal data is knowingly collected from children, no marketing email is sent, and no marketing list exists to be placed on.

To exercise any right, contact the controller using the details above. No fee is charged, no account is required, and no request is refused for the mere fact of asserting a right.

Data security

Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect personal data, including SSL/TLS encryption, access controls and data minimisation. While no digital system can guarantee absolute security, every reasonable effort is made to protect information entrusted to this website.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is updated where the processing described here changes, or where the law requires. The version in force is the one published on this page, and the date of the most recent revision is stated at the top of these notices. Changes affecting how personal data is handled are recorded in the Corrections section rather than made silently, so that a reader can see what changed and when.

Cookies

Essential cookies

This website uses a limited number of cookies strictly necessary for its secure and proper operation, provided by Squarespace. These support website security, session functionality and contact-form performance. They do not track browsing across websites and are not used for advertising. Under § 25 Abs. 2 TDDDG, strictly necessary cookies do not require consent.

Analytics cookies

This website uses Squarespace Analytics, which may place non-essential cookies. These are restricted by default and are placed on your device only if you provide consent through the cookie consent mechanism. You may accept or decline at any time, and withdrawal is as easy as consent.

What this website does not use

Google Analytics or other third-party analytics platforms
Externally hosted web fonts — all fonts are served without calling any third-party font provider, so no font provider receives your IP address
Social media tracking pixels or embedded widgets that load before consent
Advertising, remarketing or affiliate tracking
Behavioural profiling tools

Managing cookies

Most browsers allow you to review, manage or delete cookies through their settings. You may configure your browser to block cookies entirely, although certain website functions may be affected. A current, itemised list of the cookies used on this website, with their purpose and storage duration, is available through the cookie-consent tool on this website.

Terms of Use

Scope

These Terms set out the basis on which Abode of Yogi is made available and the rights reserved in its content. No contract is concluded with a visitor through the use of this website, and nothing here purports to create one. Where these Terms state a right or a limit, they do so because the law provides it, and they are given here so that a reader can see the position plainly rather than have to look it up.

Nature of the website

Abode of Yogi is an independent personal website created and maintained by Yogesh Dutt. Its purpose is editorial, educational, artistic and cultural. It is not operated as a shop, booking platform, subscription service or advertising network, and is not used to conclude contracts for products or services. Any advisory offered through this website takes the form of a non-commercial exchange of ideas — correspondence and the sharing of perspective — without fee, contract or commercial transaction. Because no contracts are concluded here, no statutory right of withdrawal and no pre-contractual consumer-information obligations under §§ 312d ff. BGB are triggered.

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, original written and creative content published on this website — essays, texts, original compositions, and the author's own pâtisserie together with the photographs of it — is the intellectual property of Yogesh Dutt and is protected under applicable German and European Union copyright law — including as a personal intellectual creation within the meaning of § 2 Abs. 2 UrhG and Directive 2001/29/EC. Content may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, modified, republished or commercially exploited without prior written permission, except where expressly permitted by law. Where third-party material appears under licence, the applicable credit is given with the material.

Imagery

The pâtisserie shown on this website is the original work of Chef Pâtissier Yogesh Dutt — both the desserts themselves and the photographs of them — and, together with the site's original written content, is protected as a personal intellectual creation under § 2 UrhG and applicable European Union copyright law; all rights are reserved. A limited number of purely atmospheric images are created with the assistance of artificial-intelligence image tools; these are used for mood only, are not represented as documentary photography, and no authorship or copyright is claimed in the generated image content itself. That limitation concerns those images alone. The selection, arrangement, captioning and presentation of the material on this website, and the website taken as a whole, remain protected regardless. No image should be taken to depict a specific, identifiable third-party product, person or place unless expressly stated. AI-assisted images are not intended to reproduce any third-party work; any resemblance is unintended. If you believe an image infringes your rights, please submit a notice (see Legal notices below) and it will be reviewed and, where well founded, amended or removed. No image depicts an identifiable real person without that person's consent; any individual appearing in AI-assisted imagery is fictitious, and any resemblance to a real person is coincidental.

Collection, database & marks

Beyond the individual works, the selection and arrangement of the material published here is protected as a collection within the meaning of § 4 UrhG, and the rights of the database maker under §§ 87a ff. UrhG are asserted in respect of the systematically arranged content of this website, including its journal archive and its research material. Extraction or re-utilisation of substantial parts, and the repeated extraction of insubstantial parts amounting in effect to the same thing, are not permitted. The names Abode of Yogi, Abode Pâtisserie, Abode Advisory, Abode Research, Abode Journal and Abode Atelier, together with the titles of original frameworks and studies first published here, are used as marks of this practice; no registration is asserted where none exists, and such rights as arise from use are reserved.

Third-party references

References to individuals, places, brands, organisations or cultural works may appear for editorial, educational, descriptive or artistic purposes. All trademarks and intellectual property belonging to third parties remain the property of their respective owners. Such references are nominative and do not imply affiliation, endorsement or sponsorship unless explicitly stated.

Responsible use

Use of this website is governed by the general law rather than by any agreement with the visitor. The following are in any event not permitted, and are pursued as the law allows: attempting to gain unauthorised access to systems or content; interfering with the operation of the website; using automated tools to scrape or harvest content; and misusing the contact form or published email address for spam, solicitation or harassment.

External links

This website may contain links to external websites operated by third parties. Responsibility for their content rests solely with their operators. At the time of linking, no unlawful content was apparent. Upon becoming aware of legal violations, affected links will be reviewed and, where appropriate, removed.

Sensitive content · age, intimacy, alcohol & tobacco

Parts of this website address adult themes and are intended for an adult audience. In keeping with the German Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (JMStV) and Jugendschutzgesetz (JuSchG), such content is presented so as not to be directed at, or suitable for, minors, and none of it is explicit. If you are below the legal age in your jurisdiction for any of the subjects below, please do not engage with that content.

Intimacy. Where this website touches on intimacy, relationships and sensuality, it does so editorially and tastefully — as matters of wellbeing, craft and human connection. It contains no pornographic or sexually explicit material, depicts no minors, and nothing in it is directed at minors.

Wine & spirits. References to wine and spirits are editorial and cultural in nature. Nothing is offered or promoted for sale, no purchase is solicited, and nothing here encourages excessive or irresponsible consumption; where the subject arises it is treated in the spirit of moderation and provenance. Such references are not directed at minors, consistent with § 6 JMStV and the Jugendschutzgesetz.

Tobacco. Any reference to cigars or tobacco is strictly editorial, historical and cultural commentary. It is not intended as, and does not constitute, advertising or promotion of tobacco products within the meaning of the German Tabakerzeugnisgesetz (TabakerzG) or Directive 2003/33/EC. No tobacco product or brand is offered, promoted for sale, sponsored, or recommended for purchase, and no such reference is directed at minors.

Disclaimer

Content is provided for informational, editorial and educational purposes only. While reasonable care is taken, no warranty is given regarding its accuracy, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for injury to life, body or health, for intent or gross negligence, or under any other head of liability which cannot lawfully be excluded. The website is provided on an "as available" basis, without guarantee of uninterrupted or error-free operation.

No professional advice

Nothing on this website constitutes professional advice. It is not medical, health, nutritional, psychological, legal, financial, tax or other professional advice, and must not be relied upon as such. Where a decision matters, seek qualified advice suited to your own circumstances before acting on anything read here. Content concerning wellbeing, the body or the mind is general and reflective and is not a substitute for professional care; if you are in distress or crisis, please seek qualified help or your local emergency services.

Third-party products, services & transactions

Recommendations and references are independent editorial opinion. Abode is not a party to, and accepts no responsibility or liability for, any purchase, booking, reservation, transaction or dealing between a reader and a third party, nor for the availability, quality, safety, pricing or conduct of any product, place, service, maker or provider mentioned. Any such dealing is solely between the reader and the third party concerned, on that third party's own terms. Any prices, budgets, figures or availability mentioned anywhere on this website are indicative only, may be out of date, and are not an offer; confirm current details directly with the third party concerned.

Legal notices

If you believe any material on this website infringes copyright, data-protection rights, personality rights or other legal interests, please submit a notice to the email address in the Impressum or through the contact form. Notices are assessed on their merits and answered. Where a notice is well founded, the material is corrected, attributed, restricted or removed as the law requires.

Editorial corrections

Requests for factual correction or clarification of editorial content are welcome and are handled under the Independent Editorial standards below. Editorial material is not withdrawn on request; disagreement with a conclusion is not a ground for removal. As a journalistic-editorial offering, this website also honours the right of reply (Gegendarstellung) and comparable rights available under applicable German press and media law; well-founded requests are handled as that law requires.

Governing law · severability · changes

To the extent legally permissible, these Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany and applicable European Union law; mandatory consumer-protection provisions applicable in the visitor's jurisdiction remain unaffected. Should any provision be or become invalid, the remaining provisions are unaffected. These Terms may be updated periodically; the most current version is always available here.

Artificial Intelligence & Automated Use

Reservation of text & data mining rights

The rights holder expressly reserves the right to text and data mining for the purposes of artificial-intelligence and machine-learning training pursuant to § 44b Abs. 3 UrhG and Art. 4 Abs. 3 of Directive (EU) 2019/790, in respect of all original content published on this website. This reservation is declared in machine-readable form by the crawler directives published at abodeofyogi.com/robots.txt, which disallow the known artificial-intelligence training crawlers. It extends to all original content published here, the site's original photography included, and it is not weakened by the decision of any particular crawler to disregard it.

Automated collection & AI training

No permission is granted to copy, extract, harvest or reproduce website content through automated means beyond what applicable law allows, including automated scraping, large-scale extraction and dataset creation. Original content is not made available for the training, fine-tuning, evaluation or development of artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models without prior written permission. Nothing published here should be interpreted as granting such permission.

Answer engines & citation

A distinction is drawn between mining content in order to train artificial-intelligence models and indexing content in order to cite and link to it. The former is reserved and disallowed, as set out above. The latter is permitted: answer and search engines may crawl, index, quote for the ordinary purpose of citation, and link to this website as a source. The crawler directives at abodeofyogi.com/robots.txt disallow the known artificial-intelligence training crawlers; answer and citation crawlers are left free to reach this website. Permitting citation does not waive, and shall not be construed as waiving, the reservation of text-and-data-mining and AI-training rights set out above.

Fair use & quotation

Reasonable quotation for editorial, academic, journalistic or critical purposes may be permitted where recognised by applicable law, with appropriate attribution. Nothing here limits rights expressly provided by copyright legislation, including quotation under § 51 UrhG and text-and-data mining for scientific research under § 60d UrhG.

Independent Editorial

Abode of Yogi is an independent editorial publication, written and edited by Yogesh Dutt. The brands, makers, houses and publications named here are mentioned as references, on our own initiative, to inform readers — not through any paid, sponsored or contractual arrangement, and not at the request of the parties named.

The experience behind the judgement

The judgement offered here rests on practice. Yogesh Dutt has worked for over a decade as a pastry chef — from first kitchens in India to luxury hotels, Relais & Châteaux houses and a Michelin-starred restaurant across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America; among them the Kempinski Taschenbergpalais in Dresden, JW Marriott Berlin, Manoir Hovey in Québec, and the Michelin-starred Bodendorf's at Landhaus Stricker on Sylt. He holds a BSc in Hospitality, Catering and Tourism and an MBA in Luxury Brand Management, Food and Wine (INSEEC, France). Each of these relationships is documented.

Disclosure of prior relationships

Where a former employer, or a group or property connected to one, appears in editorial content, that relationship is disclosed by name at the top of the piece — so a reader can weigh it rather than discover it later. Every recommendation is an editorial judgement offered against criteria stated in the piece; verified fact, analysis, opinion and speculation are distinguished, and nothing is asserted that cannot be evidenced.

On the making of this site

This website's written content and imagery are produced with the assistance of AI tools for research, drafting, editing and illustration. This is disclosed because most publications using such tools do not disclose it. Editorial judgement, every recommendation, and the decision to publish rest with the named editor, who verifies the result and is answerable for it. Artificial intelligence assists; it does not decide.

All trademarks, brand names and marks are the property of their respective owners. Their appearance here is for identification and commentary only and does not imply affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement by Abode, unless expressly stated. Every recommendation is an independent editorial judgement, offered in good faith against criteria stated in the piece. Abode earns nothing from what it recommends, and pays for what it assesses.

To request a factual correction or clarification, please write to us. Corrections are logged publicly and permanently in the Corrections section below. Claims that material infringes copyright, data-protection or other legal rights are handled as legal notices under the Terms of Use.

Corrections

Mistakes will be made; what matters is what happens when they are. Every correction is logged here, permanently and with the date it was made. The affected piece carries a visible note recording what was changed and when. Corrections are not made silently, and corrected material is not quietly deleted.

Requests for correction, clarification or attribution are reviewed on their merits and answered. Editorial material is not removed on request as a matter of course; removal is reserved for legal necessity or for error so fundamental that correction cannot repair it.

No corrections have yet been issued. When they are, each will appear here — with the date it was made and a note of what was changed.

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