cleveland until sunday. above you see skilled hands making a fine salad.

now leaving oslo, and not a moment too soon. three weeks after the copenhagen flood of july 2, water has finally insinuated its way into the...

i was out getting an ekstra stor pose of Smash! when it happened and all i noticed was that, suddenly, everyone was standing around lookin...

pelle andersen is one of the authors of  simremad og ting de tager tid  or, (loosely translated) simmered foods and other things that take...

have you noticed that i am now in oslo, which deserves its reputation as the world's most inexplicably expensive city?* soon after ar...

the E6 is one of norway's major north-south freeways. between oppdal and lillehammer, it passes between some steep mountains and can g...

grünerløkka, on the east side of oslo, to be precise. tim wendelboe is both the man and the coffeeshop. the tekangu aeropress was dry, ligh...

the pace of work at noma is crushing; 90-hour weeks are common. when the people who work there leave, sometimes they open their own restaura...

strawberries, sherry-dampened sponge, candied toasted almonds, custard, cream. very delicious and good for your arteries.

this was nice. the espresso room is not in cleveland, oh.

the borough market on saturday was a zoo, as you might expect. the line for monmouth snaked around the big table in the shop, then exited th...

i left copenhagen on sunday, after a torrential downpour that raised the water level of the inland lakes an appreciable amount while also fl...

pulverised mackerel bones and heads, mackerel guts, whey, salt.

The only way to survive over the long run is to be made of materials large and worthless, like Stonehenge and the Pyramids, or to become los...

[photo by corky]