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  The gastronomy of Finland — Virtual Finland
Finnish cuisine appeals to the eye and the taste buds and has something special for every month of the year.
The Finnish health authorities have for years emphasized the importance of healthy eating for general well-being.
The demand for organically grown Finnish raw materials is on the rise.
virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/gasteng.html   (995 words)

  
  Finland - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Prehistoric Finnish food is widely acclaimed and its chefs renowned for their ability to take all kinds of formerly edible substances and make them look like excrement.
The Finnish liquor fleet consists of dozens of huge white ships sailing non-stop between Estonia and Finland, full of eager citizens willing to help their country fill its stocks of booze, although most of it is consumed during the trip.
A majority of the Finnish population income is derived from Nokia stock purchased in the 1950ies.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Finland   (2812 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cuisine of Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cuisine (from French cuisine, cooking; culinary art; kitchen; ultimately from Latin coquere, to cook) is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture.
Cuisine of Finland is generally healthy, thanks in part to wholemeal products (rye, barley, oats) and berries (such as blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, and sea buckthorn).
Finnish cuisine is pleasing to the eye and the taste buds, and has something special for every month of the year.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cuisine-of-Finland   (4434 words)

  
 Finland - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Prehistoric Finnish food is widely acclaimed and its chefs renowned for their ability to take all kinds of formerly edible substances and make them look like excrement.
Finnish, I think, was invented by an ancient king who commanded the people in his dominion to speak like him upon the penalty of death.
Finnish heavy bands are mainly very loud and completely ununderstandable by people older than 21 years of age.
www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Finland   (8000 words)

  
 Finnish cuisine — SixDegrees
Finland is the land of a thousand lakes… and during the summer you can find a bonfire with crispy and tasty sausages roasting in the fire along the shorelines of each of them.
“I have been to Finland and I have had to endure Finnish food.
The Finns don’t even know what prosciutto is.” This was the infamous remark made by Silvio Berlusconi, then prime minister of Italy, when Finland and Italy where competing to host the EU’s Food Agency in the summer of 2005.
www.6d.fi /cuisine   (118 words)

  
 Finnish Cuisine - CookbookWiki
The Finnish cuisine is characterized by healthiness, as the whole grain and the berries are used frequently.
The types of berries that are used in the Finnish cuisine are sea buckthorn, blueberries and cloudberries.
However, the Finnish cooking techniques are not much different from the preparation methods that are used all over Europe.
www.cookbookwiki.com /Finland   (837 words)

  
 ASEM 6 : Society and traditions
Finnish society is based on the Nordic model of welfare which guarantees a basic level of social protection for every citizen.
According to ancient Finnish folklore, a young woman will meet her future husband during the ongoing year if, during Midsummer night, she goes and rolls naked in a dewy corn field.
Finnish cuisine has been influenced by the east and the west.
www.asem6.fi /finland/society_and_traditions   (1423 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Cuisine of Finland
Finnish cuisine is generally healthy, thanks in part to wholemeal products (rye, barley, oats) and berries (such as blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, and sea buckthorn).
The Finnish cuisine combines traditional country fare and upper-class cuisine with modern continental style cooking.
Fish and meat play a prominent role in any traditional Finnish dish, vegetarianism being historically non-existent.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Finnish_cuisine   (309 words)

  
 Középiskola Finnországban (Középiskolai tanév, program, Finnország)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Finnish schools have no official dress code and the teachers are not so authoritarian as in some other countries; the student-teacher relationship is more relaxed and open.
Finnish cuisine is a world of it’s own.
Most Finnish specialties are made of salmon or reindeer, but they also eat a lot of meat and vegetables.
www.bigben.hu /page59kozepiskolafinnorszag.htm   (884 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Basic F Books: Finnish Cooking
Fine Finnish Foods, in the popular recipe-card file size Stocking Stuffer format, is chock-full of recipes and notes about the best of Finnish food and culture.
I am not finnish but have studied and lived in finland over the course of a few years, and know it is very difficult to find any really informative real finnish recipes.
Sinikka Grönberg Garcia, author of Suomi Specialties: Finnish Celebrations, Traditions and Recipes, claims to be mostly Finn even though she has lived in the United States for over forty years.
www.geometry.net /basic_f_bk/finnish_cooking.html   (1153 words)

  
 finnish food   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Finnish food is rather exotic and earthy at the same time, with hearty breads and plenty of potatoes.
Finnish bread is delicious and there is endless variety of breads.
Finnish people like their liquor and that is why you will see many drunk people during your visit to Finland.
personalweb.smcvt.edu /tmatikainen/finnishfood.htm   (593 words)

  
 Cuisine of Finland - The Jiggies Reference Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Finnish cuisine is generally healthy, thanks in part to wholemeal products (rye, barley, oats).
The Finnish cuisine combines traditional country fare and upper-class cuisine with modern continental style cooking.
Finnish cuisine is pleasing to the eye and the taste buds and has something special for every month of the year.
www.jiggies.com /reference/Cuisine_of_Finland   (173 words)

  
 finland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Finnish Railway Museum Provides information of the museum and the history of railways in Finland.
Finland - The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Swedish: Finland) is a Nordic country, bounded by the...
Cuisine of Finland - Finnish cuisine is generally healthy, thanks in part to wholemeal products (rye, barley, oats).
www.serebella.com /search/topic-finland.html   (706 words)

  
 Finnish: Miscellaneous
As documented in Women Who Dared, Finnish domestics were always sought after because they worked so hard and excelled at cooking and homemaking.
Finnish Mobile TV is a community founded by Forum Virium Helsinki and some of the key players in the sector.
A Finnish proverb, Jos ei sauna ja viina ja terva auta niin se tauti on kuolemaksi, states that if a sauna, whiskey, and tar salve do not make you well, death is imminent.
www.lycos.com /info/finnish--miscellaneous.html   (379 words)

  
 Finnish food is in line with the pure, light Scandinavian cuisine
The Finnish cuisine combines the country’s regional rural traditions with foreign influences.
Finnish food research is state-of-the-art by the top international standards – Finland is a pioneering country, for example, in the RandD for functional foods.
Finnish bread is particularly tasty and healthy using four grains: rye, oats, barley and wheat.
www.sitra.fi /en/Programmes/era/archive/release-2005-7-13.htm   (1104 words)

  
 Finnish :: European : Gourt
Finnish Recipes - Three Karelian Country Buffet recipes from the Scandinavian Feasts cookbook.
Leipätiedotus - Finnish Bread - Breads from the world's northernmost grower of bread grain (click for window in English).
The Gastronomy of Finland - A brief overview of Finnish cooking and eating, by Anna-Maija Tanttu.
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.gourt.com%2FCooking%2FWorld-Cuisines%2FEuropean%2FFinnish.html   (307 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Finns find food quip hard to swallow
Finnish people basking in hot, glorious sunshine felt a bit of a cold snap from France as President Jacques Chirac pronounced Finnish food practically inedible.
Finnish and Swedish every day dishes are very similar: meatballs, mashed potatoes, salmon, frankfurters - and sometimes elk and reindeer.
Finnish cuisine is very international," opined a mother of two young children.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4652941.stm   (609 words)

  
 Finnish Cuisine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Finns have grown increasingly confident about their own cuisine in recent years, realising that the quality of fresh Finnish ingredients matches that of food just about anywhere else.
Meals with an authentic Finnish flavour are offered in an increasing number of restaurants, but the range of restaurants is widening too.
The goal is to promote and increase the knowledge of Finnish gastronomic culture and to improve the quality of Finnish produce, selecting the best-quality raw materials.
www.visitfinland.com /w5/index.nsf/(Print)/Finnish_Cuisine?opendocument&np=B-40.30   (259 words)

  
 Finnish cuisine is cross-kitchen
In all he does, Sukula is known for his personal ambition "to significantly influence Finnish food culture" and it is this passionate goal, which he has developed over the years, that guides a lot of his activities.
The mid-1990s thus appeared to be the turning point for Finnish food culture, according to Sukula.
With cuisine as such, Sukula emphasises that the point in all this is not the creation of something 'new' for its own sake, but the rethinking of absolute basic essentials.
www.finland.org /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=57382&intIGID=25&LAN=EN&Thread=&intThreadPosition=1   (1386 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - Northern Exposure
Then there was a special treat: a short concert of Finnish and Polish songs prepared specially for the occasion by Alina Krawczyk, a former soloist of Cracow Opera and Operetta, and Małgorzata Góra, a pianist from Barbara Hesse-Bukowska's class, and winner of numerous competitions.
The songs in Finnish were clearly a joy to the ambassador, himself a talented baritone.
A presentation of Finnish cuisine was the last installment of the packed program.
www1.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/6055   (599 words)

  
 Finnish: European at Canadian Content
Finnish specialities for Christmas, Easter and other occasions.
A brief overview of Finnish cooking and eating, by Anna-Maija Tanttu.
important of which is the kokle, a type of zither derived from the Finnish kantele.
www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Home/Cooking/World_Cuisines/European/Finnish   (432 words)

  
 The Gastronomy of Finland
Due to the harsh climate, traditional Finnish cuisine included many grains and berries.
In the two months of Finnish summer, the sun never sets, bringing the average temperature as high as 86 degrees F. Due to these factors, fresh foods and fresh fish and seafood are prevalent throughout the country.
Finnish cuisine appeals to both the eye and the taste buds, and has something special for every month of the year.
www.globalgourmet.com /destinations/finland/fingastro.html   (565 words)

  
 Wellness Hotel Meranerland - Marling - Suedtirol Hotels,Wellnesshotel Meraner Land,Hotel Marling,Wellness Hotel ...
Rich and varied breakfast buffet with bio-specialties and tea corner, every evening fine dining with gourmet menus and wide variety of food including vegetarian cuisine, salad bar from the buffet, appetizer and dessert buffets o on Sundays welcome drink and gala dinner Our wine list is has a rich selection.
Peace and quiet, interrupted only by the buzz of dragonflies over the pond or the clinking of ice cubes in a glass…, after a stressful day, a fine period of relaxation in the new sauna world: in the aroma grotto, in the steam bath, or in the Finnish sauna.
Outdoor swimming-pool (15x7m) with sunbathing lawn Unique bathing facilities with indoor swimming pool (12x6m 28°), Finnish sauna, steam bath, saline bath, bio-sauna, Kneipp pool and whirlpool, separated relaxing room, new massage and beauty department, solarium, fitness area.
www.jagdhof.it /inizio.htm   (1964 words)

  
 FlyerTalk Forums - Helsinki Dining Guide
I don't think either that Finnish beef is known for its high quality despite of government's promotional efforts.
Run by the Volunteer Fire Brigade, this restaurant serves a daily changing buffet of hearty Finnish fare in a cafeteria straight from the 1950s, complete with grim portraits of moustached Hosemasters staring down at you.
The real low end of Finnish food can be tasted at any Fazer-Amica, Sodexho or whatever cafeteria (you can find one in most major office buildings).
www.flyertalk.com /forums/printthread.php?t=568404&page=6&pp=15   (1018 words)

  
 Suchmaschine
Traditional Finnish cuisine has been heavily influenced by Swedish, German and Russian cuisines.
To add some vitamins and make the rather heavy food more enjoyable a traditional jam is made from lingonberry and served with meat.
Finnish berries (especially cloudberry), salmon, cheeses and reindeer should be available in London, too." (April Hutchinson, Abta Magazine, London, England)
www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Cuisine_of_Finland   (1270 words)

  
 Helsinki – The Finnish Mini-Gourmopolis
He attributes the changes to a new generation of demanding Helsinkians seeking new, trendy places and cuisine and celebrity chefs coupled with entrepreneurial investors who have risen to the challenge.
He is one of a myriad of young (24-35) highly competitive Finnish chefs who are committed to excellence.
Sasso has put a "spin" on Northern Italian cuisine, not only with its free form décor and style, popular for everything from afternoon coffee to gourmet meals --as well as its signature fennel-seed sprinkled cured fl olives-- but also in its presentation.
www.travellady.com /Issues/November05/1974Helsinki.htm   (795 words)

  
 FABULOUS FINNISH FOOD
FINLAND….The cuisine of any country is influenced by its neighbors and history and locally produced ingredients.
The flavor of modern Finnish cuisine is international and European with a liberal dash of the traditional.
Finnish fruits and vegetables, ripened by the long days of summer, taste fresher than anywhere else.
travellady.com /articles/article-finland.html   (432 words)

  
 DiscoverHelsinki.Com - Helsinki Restaurants, Helsinki Bars, Helsinki Cafes, Helsinki Pubs.
Apart from cuisine the city also offers a variety of dining experiences- right from fine dining to steak houses, from artists’ haunts to fast food joints, visitors have a choice of over 800 restaurants which Helsinki is peppered with.
Finnish food is somewhere midway between Russian and Scandinavian cuisines and is largely focused on cold fish, which is readily available in the region.
Finnish cuisine typically goes easy on spices, so as to maintain the fresh flavor of the ingredients.
www.discoverhelsinki.com /Helsinki_restaurants.asp   (891 words)

  
 Finnish Banquets
Finnish fish aspics are second to none and Finnish vendace, whitefish and burbot roe is on a par with caviar.
Another popular dessert is northern Finnish egg cheese warmed in cream and served with cloudberry jam.
Finnish crepes are small and served with strawberry or raspberry jam.
www.globalgourmet.com /destinations/finland/finbanq.html   (436 words)

  
 Helsinki, Finland Restaurant News - Europe for Visitors
Named for the legendary maiden of Finnish mythology, Aino opened its doors this year offering traditional and modern Finnish cuisine.
Reindeer and other game dishes are on the menu, along with all time favorites such as Karelian pies (made with Finnish rye, rice and egg butter) and root vegetables in rye crust with roasted onion.
For more information about Finnish restaurant news, or to receive a free copy of the Finland Vacation Guide, contact the Finnish Tourist Board in the United States at 212-885-9700/1-800-FIN-INFO (the latter for automated orders only) or e-mail mek.usa@mek.fi.
www.europeforvisitors.com /europe/news/finland-helsinki-restaurants.htm   (430 words)

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