On average, a typical Finnish citizen consumes more than 26 pounds of coffee, making Finland the most caffeinated nation on earth. What do the Finnish do with all that energy? They forage. Finland’s forests are a smorgasbord of superfoods: blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, and chanterelles abound alongside wild herbs and root vegetables. With the advent of…
As you stroll past the various Michelin-starred restaurants and luxury properties that dot Yountville’s main street, it might be hard to imagine that this culinary capital of Napa Valley with its tagline “Taste life here” was once better known for its brothels.
Anyone who’s paying attention to what we eat today knows that we’re living in a golden age of Nordic gastronomy. Not unlike the pinnacle of Scandinavian design, we’re reaping the benefits of a remarkable synergy of exceptional talent and egalitarian philosophy. Marked by environmental awareness, the current renaissance of neo-Nordic cuisine recalls the earlier transformation…
Long before he was considered the progenitor of the modern Swedish novel, August Strindberg was a struggling artist who paid his café bills with his paintings. The author of The Red Room, a scathing satire on Stockholm society and the follies of the artist, Strindberg took up residence at Berns where he wrote in a…
Paris is grand and Nice is nice—and Marseille is marvelous—but sometimes you want to wander deeper into “la belle France.” Next time you need a taste of “l’art de vivre,” consider these three locales in the Aquitaine region in the southwest of France. Biarritz: Known as “the queen of beaches and the beach of kings,”…
For many of us, the perfect vacation starts on an island — and each of Stockholm’s fourteen isles has its own Swedish charms, especially in summer.
Camera in hand, Eugène Jansson roamed the Stockholm bathhouses in search of male models. The illustrious Swedish artist had a reputation for photographing nude athletes, particularly swimmers. Celebrated for his nocturnal cityscapes of his native Stockholm as depicted from his home on the southern island of Sodermalm, Jansson began frequenting the bathhouses to photograph naked…
It’s possible to look at the evolution of LGBT liberation as a movement from aesthete to athlete, from Oscar Wilde to Michael Sam. Or so it seemed during the latest EuroGames, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, where more than 5,000 LGBTQ athletes competed in front of nearly 250,000 visitors. I grew up in a…