During the last weeks of December this little household was enriched with several food related gifts. Among them were three books:
1. Delicious Food from Morocco to Iran by Helen Flink
This is a welcome addition to the collection and yet another incentive to prepare Harissa at home – and place countries such as Yemen on my mental food map of the world.
2. The Clandestine Cook by Mats-Eric Nilsson
This I have read today at one go. Food for thought. This is interesting stuff and a wildly popular book in Sweden and now in Norway but the book itself is rather chaotic and repetitive. Also some arguments are weak. Like that we only should eat original mozzarella – without one mention of scandal with dioxin tainted product. It was translated and adjusted for Norway by Jan-Tore Egge of Slow Food Norway. All in all, taking up an interest in food ingredients and industrial production methods can only be healthy. Only that, in the end, what shall we have for dinner?
3. Fish & Wine by Trond Moi and Toralf Bølgen
I like fish a lot; I should have liked wine (in particular red wine) better. This might be a nice opportunity to extend the horizons and buy some new fish sorts – and choose more carefully what to serve them with?
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