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Swedish versus Chinese crayfish

Fork out for Swedish crayfish

On September 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A friend of mine has a gourmet blog called Fork Out! Part from the blog being a short but good read I need to urge you to read a particular post about crayfish. The author sets out to do a comparative review [...]

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Dim Sum at Yauatcha

Dim Sum and Then Some at Yauatcha

On June 8, 2011 · 2 Comments

During a recent trip to London we visited a place that had pretty awesome dumplings. We’d grown tired of the English cuisine and had been recommended both Hakkasan, an upmarket Chinese restaurant, and it’s sibling Yautacha, focusing on dim sum – [...]

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El Celler de Can Roca revisited

On May 6, 2011 · 2 Comments

Just the other week Restaurant Magazine announced this year’s list of the worlds 50 best restaurants. I was glad to see that El Celler de Can Roca grabbed the place as first runner up – cause I just payed them another visit. If

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Questionmarks

All these questions

On March 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Facebook just launched Questions so that we can get answers from the people we trust – our friends. So far I’ve been giving Quora a go. Haven’t been the best contributor though, but whatever, [...]

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Can't see the forrest for all the trees

Getting things done while staying sane

On March 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Are you overwhelmed by all the things you really need to do at the same time you get a constant feed of information just waiting for you to dig in? A couple of weeks ago I freaked out about this balance – how the hell do I stay on top of everything? And by everything [...]

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Dirt cheap

What would Sverker say?

On March 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I was just watching an old show on Swedish television, SVT, called Plus. It has been like an ombudsman for consumers since the mid 80′s. It used to be hosted by Sverker Olofsson that became [...]

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Some comments on commenting platforms

On March 8, 2011 · 3 Comments

So I switched to Disqus a little while ago, not a big decision really with the amount of traffic and comments this blog has

Disqus, what the heck is that? It’s really just a separate system for handling comments on your site. I had comments before and nothing wrong with [...]

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Jacques Selosse Initial

Discovering Jacques Selosse

On February 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A bottle of Jacques Selosse Initial had been sitting in my fridge for too long and earlier this week we decided to pop it together with some foie gras. The champagne was amazing. Unlike any champagne I’ve ever tried before. Too bad the Selosse’s aren’t [...]

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Seared flanksteak from Nebraska

The natural cuisine at Mathias Dahlgren Matbaren

On February 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

So we finally got around to visiting Mathias Dahlgren at Grand Hôtel here in Stockholm. I’ve tried a few times to get a table at Matsalen, with two stars, set menues and a more formal setting, but we went for [...]

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pine nuts

Pine mouth drives me nuts

On January 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Ever heard of pine nuts leaving a bitter or metallic taste in your mouth? I did a couple of months ago but didn’t think much of it. That was until a a glass of juice almost had me convinced I was being poisoned. It has now lasted several days and the worst [...]

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