tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68981517590745545382012-01-25T21:41:10.175+01:00bon appétit - bon voyage - bon courageLaurel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786061489224268621noreply@blogger.comBlogger561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898151759074554538.post-15433904397062058742009-10-17T20:44:00.001+02:002009-12-17T08:56:24.177+01:00

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or: The day that Gourmet diedThe demise of Gourmet Magazine with the October 2009 issue is a sad event in foodie history. So in honor of Gourmet's 67 years of good food, I made my favorite cookie from Gourmet's own list: Gourmet's Favorite Cookies 1941-2008I love shortbread-style cookies more than any other kind of cookie out there. They are quick, easy, and melt-in-your-mouth buttery and in this

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I have not washed my hair in over a year. At least, not the way most of us would consider 'washed' i.e. with shampoo and conditioner. I have also long since tossed out or given away all of my formerly 'absolutely necessary' face and body washing, moisturizing and primping products – lotions, creams, gels, oils, lip gloss – everything. I am, like we all are I suppose, a little vain. So this was

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This impressed me! Jimmy Fallon is walking the talk but will he also talk the walk once he takes over on Late Night on Monday?

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This month's challenge is brought to us by Karen of Bake My Day and Zorra of 1x umruehren bitte aka Kochtopf. They have chosen Tuiles from The Chocolate Book by Angélique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michel Roux.My Tuiles are 100% organic and I filled them with homemade chocolate cream and lemon curd cream. The chocolate turned out better. The sweet lemon curd with the sweet

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Would the play by any other name be as sweet? How about 'The Thirteenth Day'? Here in Sweden there is no such thing as Twelfth Night. There is instead a Thirteenth Day. And the Thirteenth Day Eve is the night of fancy balls at the fancy castles and hotel ballrooms around the country.And it isn't until a little day they call 'the twentieth knut' (Jan. 13th, twenty days after Christmas and the name

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"Ring Out, Wild Bells" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is the perfect new year's eve verse and in 1890 Edvard Fredin, an actor, critic and translator from Stockholm, translated it to Swedish. For over a hundred years now it has been read aloud at the stroke of midnight for the New Year's revelers at Skansen Park in Stockholm, above the din of the fireworks. Here are both versions. Bonne Année!Ring Out,

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Oh! Caramel Cake! Allow me to introduce you to November's daring baker challenge - Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Frosting. In my variation I used only organic ingredients, replaced 1/4 of the flour with dark cocoa and about 1/2 the water in the caramel syrup with whisky. And when it came to the carmelized butter frosting I had to skip the powdered sugar - I have never learned to like

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Compared to the predominately evergreen forests of my childhood in the Pacific Northwest, the colorful, falling leaves of beeches, oaks and birches are fairy dust, enchanting my autumns in Southern Sweden.Autumn is passing leisurely this year. The leaves were mostly allowed to remain in peace on their branches for the whole spectrum of color change and then make soft, dry heaps under their very

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I made my Daring Bakers debut this month with these authentic, home-tossed organic pizzas topped with homemade tomato and oregano sauce, cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, fresh basil from my windowsill and savory bits of locally raised, cold-smoked Linderöd pork tenderloin.This recipe (from Peter Reinhart's "The Bread Baker’s Apprentice") is much easier than I expected it to be and the crust turned

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I spent last Sunday afternoon tagging along with Bo Dahlgren, head of the living farm at Fredriksdal's Museums & Gardens here in Helsingborg and continued discovering how lucky I am to have a working farm barely two kilometers from my front door (especially nice since I am participating in the Eat Local Challenge).The Fredriksdal farm is also smack in the middle of Helsingborg, putting it a scant

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When do you feel richest? Laughing with friends, kissing your child goodnight, walking in the sunshine, building a life with your soul mate, enjoying a meal cooked with love, singing in the rain, dancing in the grass, kicking up leaves, and just being alive ... it is all about love. And love is F-R-E-E.I believe that living well entails much more than indulging in epicurean pleasures. You cannot

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I made this for an organic potluck on Friday night and was warmly welcomed when I arrived with my giant pot, steaming with delicious aromas.Start by peeling and roughly chopping carrots, red bell peppers, red onions and a big chunk of a pink banana pumpkin or butternut squash. Drizzle with olive oil and wine and roast while you prepare the rest.In a huge pot, brown chopped shallots and garlic

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Thursday was a big gala night in Helsingborg and I was so thrilled to find that the whole dinner showcased organic and local food.The talented Tobias och Ulrica Millqvist of Gastronomy Studio Era 10:3 pulled it off brilliantly, no suprise considering that Tobias captured the silver in Sweden's National Chef of the Year Championship last year and made it into the top six as a finalist this year.

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This is one of those delightful 'warm' salads I discovered on a lazy weekend when I couldn't be bothered to go shopping. I had a peck of organic pears from my Årstiderna's delivery on Thursday and a lonely little round of organic camembert in the refrigerator. I googled "pear and camembert" to learn from those who have gone before me if there was something more interesting to do with them than

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Here I am running towards what could be my first hot air balloon flight ever. At this moment I have yet to decide if I am going to jump into that ridiculous little basket and let myself be whisked up and away somewhere over the rainbow or not.Hot air ballooning has always appealed to me in theory: rising majestically in a fire-breathing, rainbow chariot over vineyards and verdant hillsides until

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Summer is definitely over in Sweden now but we took advantage of a sunny day recently to have one last barbecue on the terrace. I love homemade potato salad and I have always used my mom's recipe but since I really committed myself to buying only organic ingredients that has been a little tricky. Things like organic mayonnaise and pickles are not widely available over here (no Whole Foods in

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Owen Franken for The New York Times & Amélie Dequidt/Office de Tourisme d’ArleuxThis headline in the NY Times yesterday captured my attention instantly and introduced a very thought-provoking topic: should UNESCO World Heritage Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage be able to include a country's unique gastronomy? France is having a go at it and

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Vive les cupcakes! These darlings are my contribution to Sugar High Friday and are inspired by sweet Miss Fanny over at foodbeam who posted the deadly delicious and "so horribly fluffy" s'mores cupcakes last week. My version is made from 100% organic ingredients (and fair trade sugar and espresso) and it also takes a tiny shortcut by putting the chocolate into the lovely little cakes themselves (

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Eco-glamping (i.e. glamorous camping) is right up this ethical bon vivant's pretty, green alley so I was enormously pleased to see this article, written by Jennifer Conlin, published on the NY Times Travel pages today. The photo above shows a guest tent at the Clayoquot Wilderness Resort on Vancouver Island."If the eco-friendly idea of falling asleep under the stars and roasting marshmallows

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Authentic Tarte Tatin is one of the many delicious French 'accidents' that has gone on to become a classic favorite. Our thanks go out to the sweetly scatterbrained Stephanie Tatin who, in 1898, botched a recipe for a proper apple tart and served the result to her guests at Hotel Tatin in Beuvron.Start by making the pastry crust and, need I say it, use all organic, locally produced ingredients.

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Sofiero Castle is the former royal summer residence with exquisite gardens in Helsingborg and last weekend they opened the castle gates to their annual grand Sofiero Garden Show.The sun was shining on blooming artichokes and dahlias, herb gardens framed by low apple-tree hedges, apple trees trained up trellises, the fairytale juniper-hedge maze and a lovely maiden playing a harp in the

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What's in season?Get out to an organic farm and pick bags and bags of sweet corn, apples, pears, plums, squash in all colors, shapes and sizes, onions, leeks, eggplants, carrots, beets, chard, ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, garlic, nectarines, peaches, spinach, cabbage, cauliflower, artichokes, fresh horseradish, lettuces, bell peppers, rose petals, mint, potatoes, sorrel, cress, basil,

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Voila! The last installment of pictures from our grand trip around the Alps and Piedmont this summer is now up for your viewing pleasure and it's time to recap. We did our best to be good eco-tourists:We did take our car BUT we put it (and ourselves) on the Autozug train from Hamburg to Basel (and back again) with about a hundred other cars. They have several routes to choose from and if you must

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Vive la France! We loved our days in Savoie and those French wines, the croissants, the cheeses, the language, the two hour (minimum) lunches with petites chiens lolling under every other table, the endless supply of free doggie-poo bags everywhere, the villages of flowers, the Alps, Lac D'Annecy, Lac Leman, the Château de Thorens where we stayed....voila!

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We spent a hot, wine-soaked week in the beautiful little stone cottage 'Il Nido' (the nest) in Piedmont, Italy and finished off with a gourmet evening at the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, sheltered from a magnificent thunderstorm. Magnifico!

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Enjoying each day to its fullest is what bons vivants specialize in and the Bon Vivant Calendar premieres this month to inspire and enrich our days with epicurean pleasure - starting with a sweet, ripe August.What's in season?Eat according to the seasons and enjoy food that is fresher, more flavorful, more packed with nutrition, less expensive and more environmentally friendly.In August feast on

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Contextual Keys to the Romantic Refuge“People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don’t you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way others do?,” Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher writes in the foreword to her 1943 book, The Gastronomical Me, “They ask it accusingly, as if I were somehow gross, unfaithful to the honor of my craft,” (353).

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My travel feature about the Swedish province of Halland has been published in the Spring 2008 issue of The Scandinavian Insider magazine. Photo: Jesper Pettersson Destination HallandBig adventures in little SwedenIf you had to choose just one province in Sweden to visit, it would have to be Halland. No other can give you the soft sandy beaches and agricultural riches of the

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The number one English magazine in Sweden has launched a new name and a new site to match. Visit The Scandinavian Insider (formerly South of Sweden Magazine) at sosmag.se/new and get a copy of the new print issue, coming in early March, which features my travel piece on the province of Halland, Sweden.

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Impress your Swedish friends with your Christmas savvy this season. We tracked down the origins of some traditional specialties and discovered some exclusively local delicacies of Swedish Christmas cuisine. 1. DRIED REINDEER MEAT from NorrbottenThe Sami people eat reindeer meatballs, sausages, spare ribs and pâté at Christmas but it is the traditionally dried and smoked reindeer meat that is fast

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My travel article about Lund, Sweden has been published in the Fall 2007 issue of South of Sweden Magazine.Where the glorious laurels growHeeding the bells of Sweden’s oldest and most otherworldly cathedral, bike bound students bump along cobblestone lanes, over leafy squares, and through the glorious green of Lundagård park as they have for centuries in Lund, the ancient, cosy home of

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Gourmandize among autumn’s bounty from the orchards, fields, and forests of fruitful Scania.Apple picking timeRestaurants and markets are now bursting with apple cakes, apple pies, apple cider and even Scanian Calvados. For tastings, apple art and festivities, visit Kivik’s Apple Market (Sept. 29th-30th), Apple Day in Båstad (Sept. 29th), or Mikaeli Market at Fredriksdal in Helsingborg (September

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My article about Shakespeare performances in English in Scania and Copenhagen this fall has been published in the latest issue of South of Sweden Magazine.Once upon a dreamTrade a kingdom for a stage when Shakespeare’s finest comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, descends on three castles in the Öresund region this September. Pack blankets and a picnic and enjoy a magical night with the bard in his

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I associate certain periods, places or events in my life with food. The same way a favorite songs can take you back, 2004 was my year of jerusalem artichoke soup, oysters will always mean the autumn of 2005 in Berlin (at the KaDeWe osyter bar), 2006 was pannacotta and creme brulee/catalan/caramel and 2007 is turning out to be the year of the beef carpaccio for me. I have been following the 'They

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My lifestyle feature about the famous Blommeröd Arabian Stud and the estate's lovely proprietor, Vicke Philip Sørensen, will be published in the summer issue of South of Sweden Magazine. Here is a sneak preview of the article.Unbridled SpiritThe deep lush heart of Skåne conceals a secret realm where you can live the thoroughbred life. Fly over the fields on an exquisite Arabian steed, sip

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My travel feature about Sweden's southernmost municipality, Trelleborg, will be published in the summer issue of South of Sweden Magazine. Here is a sneak preview of the article.Skåne’s secret sun coastTrelleborg’s municipality lies sunning itself at the very southernmost tip of Sweden and conceals a summer paradise of endless sandy beaches, a city of palm trees and a honeycomb of quiet country

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My article about summer dining in Skåne will appear in the summer issue of South of Sweden Magazine. Here is the preview.The Taste of a Scanian SummerSweden’s most fertile province is the natural heart of Swedish gastronomy. We roam from Malmö’s ultra-hip Möllevångstorget to the ultra-traditional Österlen village of Hammenhög and scour the seaside in our search for the most unique and most jovial

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My article about the Kullabygden district of Skåne has been published in South of Sweden Magazine. Read the full article below or visit www.sosmag.se to download the pdf version of the spring 2007 issue of the magazine. A Rarified Escape to the Land of KullenThe ancient promontory of Kullaberg and the rippling fields, troll forests and seaside villages of the Kullabygden district offer a classic

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My portrait of Artist Lars Vilks has been published in the spring issue of South of Sweden Magazine. Read the full article below or visit www.sosmag.se to download the pdf version of the spring 2007 issue.A portrait of the artist as an ardent manLars Vilks is the provocative artist who builds magnificent driftwood structures without permits, outsmarts the Swedish authorities with confusion

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Living well entails much more than simply indulging in epicurean pleasures. It also implies living intelligently, ethically and wholesomely with respect for all living things and for yourself.In trying to put together a brief guide to living well ethically I have discovered that it is inexcusably difficult to find out the whole story about most of the goods we consume daily.The most basic action

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In the spirit of encouraging indulgence this Holiday season I have collected a few of my favorite recipes that should gratify the bon vivant in everyone.Whisky Caramel Corn1. Start with a large bowl about halfway full of popped popcorn, buttered and salted as you usually like it.2. In a saucepan, melt a stick of butter with 1 cup of sugar over high heat while stirring constantly. Use a long

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My article about Helsingborg has been published in the South of Sweden Magazine. Read the full article below or visit www.sosmag.se to download the pdf version of issue 4 of the magazine.The Winter of a Bon VivantHelsingborg, the pearl of the Sound, is perhaps best loved for its summer pleasures when the sun shines on lively festivals, waterside eateries and miles of some of the best urban

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My second article offering practical advice about living in Sweden has been published in the South of Sweden magazine. Read the full article below or visit www.sosmag.se to download the pdf version of issue 4 of the magazine. Ironically, almost immediately after penning this article we decided that it was time to move. So the search is on for our new home in Helsingborg and I have found my own

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My article on how to go about renting an apartment in Sweden has been published in the new South of Sweden magazine. Read the full article below or visit www.sosmag.se to download the digital version of issue 3 of the magazine.A place to call ‘hem’Much is made of the housing shortage in Swedish cities, and rightly so. The waiting lists for rentals are long and empty apartments scarce. Armed with

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Come hither gourmets, sybarites, sensualists, hedonists, epicureans, pleasure seekers and bon vivants. Celebrated author, french gourmet and lawyer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said that living well was an act of intelligence by which we choose that which pleases us over that which does not. I do agree and would propose that living well is an intellectual adventure as well as a sensual one. It

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