Category Archives: Sweden

Sushi Pizza

Posted on February 19, 2008 by acb

On this blog we refrain from Norwegian jokes but I would not like to take seriously this recipe from Dagbladet. Yes, it is a sushi pizza, with the fish (Norwegian salmon and Norwegian halibut are specified) arranged on round platters … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Blather, Sweden, Travel notes | 5 Comments

Book cover

Posted on December 9, 2007 by acb

Here at last: the back cover text is in the alt tag. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Sweden | 6 Comments

A question for Swedes, with a Hungarian bonus.

Posted on December 2, 2007 by acb

How do you crop a photograph in Swedish? The otherwise excellent lexin online dictionary gives Swedish terms for numerous agricultural meanings of “crop”; it gives a bird’s crop and various hairdressing terms. But nothing for the process of cutting a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | 6 Comments

The end of civilisation, again

Posted on December 1, 2007 by acb

I have just come across a reference to a recipe for stir-fried lutfisk. The Swedish for stir-fried, incidentally, is wokad — “wokked”. I tried to find this recipe, and failed, which is perhaps for the best. On the other hand, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Blather, Sweden | 1 Comment

Doctors and murderers; now added hate

Posted on November 8, 2007 by acb

I’m always surprised, when I think of it, that so few doctors turn out to be mass murderers. It’s hard to think of any profession which offers better arguments for nihilism, except, perhaps, religious journalism. In any case, the Shipmans, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | 3 Comments

Any Swedes out there?

Posted on September 28, 2007 by acb

According to Wikipedia’s perfectly fascinating article on Finnishisms in Swedish, both Semla, (a sort of bun) and dyna (a cushion) are Finnishisms in place of more common and “proper” Swedish terms. Yet both words were in everyday use in my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | 14 Comments

An unusual comment problem

Posted on September 4, 2007 by acb

An interesting story from the Swedish blogosphere: Carl Bildt, the former Prime Minister, now foreign minister, has a blog. He is in fact a natural blogger, picky, aggressive, articulate and contemptuous of lower beings; and his blog is a real … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Lost history

Posted on July 20, 2007 by acb

I keep by my bed, as an antidote to hopes of progress, a volume of the Cambridge Modern History dealing with the Thirty Years’ War. It wouldn’t be an antidote if I were certain that we had left these times … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in God, Sweden | 1 Comment

Don’t Feed the Boars

Posted on July 16, 2007 by acb

You might think that the moral of a story coming out of Sweden would be “Don’t feed the trolls”, but, no: according to the Hallands Post there is a problem with the wild boars that are re-establishing themselves in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Blather, Sweden | 1 Comment

In wholly unrelated news

Posted on July 9, 2007 by acb

The civil servant responsible for Swedish government policy on mobile phones is called Urban Landmark Continue reading →

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