swedishness
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
The mothers of my two best friends when I was around ten were very different from mine. They looked a lot older than my mother, and they always had cakes and home-made buns in the house. I didn’t really know what their jobs were, if [...]
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Turns out English yeast doesn’t quite work the way Swedish yeast does (anything to excuse these stupidly tiny buns), but then again, I’ve never claimed to be a goddess in the kitchen. Here’s to trying!
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the snobbery that united the millions of people who watched My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and the superiority that unites Swedes when travelling almost anywhere outside of Sweden. I figured that if, as Lucy Mangan wrote, snobbery [...]
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
I was quite amused by Lucy Mangan’s column about My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, and surprisingly so for someone who doesn’t even watch the show. “It’s a serious success. And why? Because we’re all such massive snobs,” she wrote, and I nodded.
Lucy moved on [...]
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