Eating is an essential part of every hobby, and every Finn loves good food. The best food is often made with the simplest ingredients, fresh from the clean nature.
The fillet of reindeer is so small peace of meat, that only a few years back it was not taken separately, but sold as a bulk meat for the food industry. Luckily nowadays there is few places where this small but the most delicious part of the Lappland's mascot animal is given the attention it deserves. Once managed to get a portion of this superior meat somewhere, the only right way to enjoy it's special flavor and exquisite taste is to sear it briefly and eat it accompanied by fresh season's vegetables.
The salad prepared in this episode really celebrates the Finnish summer and clean nature!
2007-09-09
Reindeer and Lettuce
2007-08-26
Housing Dreams Realized
Finns just love building houses, or at least dreaming of it. One clear sign of that is the popularity of the annual housing fairs
Somehow it has amazed me for a long time, that these housing fairs are so popular among Finns. There were a few years downturn on the number of visitors, but this year the expectations were indeed exceeded. The organizers were counting on 150 000 sold tickets, instead they sold over 195 000. In addition thousands of the visitors were from abroad, even all the way from China.
The themes were good design, family, community, nature and best ideas. The houses were built respecting the nature around, and the small alley-like streets are bound to promote community and safe environment for the kids.
On the other hand, good design wasn’t that apparent. And what comes to the best ideas, well maybe not al of them really fall under that category. Maybe because of the ever-rising construction costs, not too many houses were just designers wet dreams, but places where one could imagine to live in. Nevertheless, we found only one house which met our high criteria, and could be called well designed.
This episode is also available in a high definition version, the link to the RSS-feed is on the home page.
