Finnish cuisine “back in the days” – Second chapter

In the first chapter I wrote about the cook books of my granny. Above you see two extracts from the book Kotiruoka from 1950, in which they write about fish: “The right season for different fish species: perch, from September to March eel, from August to November pike, from August to March flounder, from October to …

Finnish cuisine “back in the days” – First chapter

My motivation for writing these posts spurred originally from the irritation of regularly hearing negative/ironic comments about Finnish food by Italian residing here. Comments in which following things are repeated: Italian food is much tastier, Finland is a young country with no gastronomical culture, there are no delicious dishes in this part of the world. …