
Since the beginning, I have been labeled as finicky, picky, a bad eater, the antithesis of a foodie. Although, I love bread and even-more-so butter. With coffee, with dessert, with a vegetable if one must; morning, noon, and night love. Good bread, good butter. I’m of Norwegian ancestry (with a dash of Swede) and Norwegians make the world’s best butter (Setesdalmor Extra Salta) made in the Setesdal Valley where one-half of my… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: Anthony Bourdain, Anya Von Bremzen, Asako Yuzuki, Butter the book, Crying in H Mart, Kitchen Confidential, Mastering the art of Soviet Cooking A Memoir of Food and Longing, Michelle Zauner, NOMA, Norway, Rene Redzepi, Ruth Reichl, Sally andrew, Save Me the Plums, Setesdalmor Extra Salta butter, Sundays at the Moosewood Restaurant, Tannie Maria mysteries, Tender at the Bone, The Paris Novel
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain “Join the army, travel the world, meet interesting people and kill them.” —anti-war slogan from Vietnam war era. Those quotes pretty much describe my state of mind today which might best be labeled as confused and melancholy—even though in just one week I’m off for… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: #WPLongform, books, Canada, Damjan Koncnik, Greenland, Greenland: The End of the World, Jane Smiley, Nancy Marie Brown, NARSARSUAQ, NOMA: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine, Rene Redzepi, The Far Traveler Voyages of a Viking Woman, The Greenlanders, The Saga of the Greenlanders
A link to my book,Window Seat, The Story of a Traveling Life
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