Mustamakkara with Lingonberry Jam
Let’s be honest, George
Bernard Shaw could not have been more right when he wrote: “There is no love
sincerer than the love of food.” Seriously, how can romantic love measure up to sitting
in front of a table piled high with all your favorite foods? And there’s
another thing about food: Some of the most pervasive stereotypes we have about
other cultures are about what they eat. Think Krauts as a name for Germans. Think Fast Food as the American export. Think Wiener
Schnitzel.
It seems reasonable to
conclude that culture and food are in some way intertwined in the human mind.
Which is why I cannot, in good conscience, withhold what I know about Finnish
Food.
