“There aren’t a lot of Faroese food blogs,” Eric remarked, as he trawled through online resources in an effort to build a menu. Many of the recipes he did find were going to be impossible to make — stuffed puffin and fermented pilot whale blubber just wasn’t available at our local…
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Assignment 129: Estonia
Some years ago, Eric and I were sitting together in a tiny restaurant in the medieval area of Tallinn, Estonia. This was before Eric had ever conceived of the idea of Wooden Spoon Wanderer, but naturally undertaking this assignment brought me right back to that place, dunking bread…
Assignment 126: North Macedonia
Eric didn’t know much about North Macedonia, except that the country was part of former Yugoslavia, and that its name changed recently (to include “North”) due to a conflict over nomenclature with Greece. In starting his research, Eric imagined North Macedonian fare would be a mix of…
Assignment 118: Latvia
Eric has done quite a few Eastern European assignments, but it had been a while. He started his research on Wikipedia, then went searching for recipes, both online and in our Wooden Spoon Wanderer library. Latvian menus typically feature a lot of meat, and for our pescatarian…
Assignment 111: Germany
In an unprecedented turn of events, Eric and I swapped assignments. I had drawn Luxembourg and he had gotten Germany, but he was insistent that I would make better pretzels than he would (I’ve made them a couple of times before and since we ate about ten…
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