This was the last week in Scandinavia for my food appreciation classes on our virtual world culinary tour. We couldn’t very well leave without sampling one of the Nordic region’s favorite vegetables: rutabaga. I know what you’re thinking: Rutabaga! Yuck! This underground cousin of cabbage and kale is so closely associated with Swedish tastes that […]
As part of “Nordic Week” in D.C. Public Schools, one of the people I met on my recent fact-finding mission to Sweden was here in the District of Columbia. Annika Unt Widell, spokeswoman for better school food in Sweden, had flown here to mentor Swedish students who had competed for a chance to take part […]
If it’s Thursday, it must be split pea soup and pancakes with lingonberry jam. At least that’s the custom in Sweden where our food appreciation classes happen to be visiting on their virtual world culinary tour. Concidentally, this was happening at the same time D.C. Public Schools were celebrating Nordic day, with traditional foods being […]
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