Laplandica

…was saved this year, thanks to relying on a regular Swedish ham instead of the more desirable American ham. The Swedish ham is cured in a salt brine and this year’s choice was one that already was cooked.
Attempting a compromise between both cultures, I placed cloves in the fatty part, rubbed in brown sugar [...]

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…living abroad for many years can have culinary consequences. If you can understand the situation of living in another culture with different foods than what you’ve been brought up with? Americans living abroad easily are a brotherhood of food addicts experiencing food withdrawals when thoughts of childhood goodies float up in memories and the [...]