NEW YORK – When France’s president, Jacques Chirac, called Finland’s cuisine the worst in Europe, I took it personally. I have fond memories of my Finnish grandmother’s spicy herring and beet salad, ...

When Beatrice Ojakangas first proposed a book on Finnish cuisine, she was met with a deafening silence. "It was kind of a hard sell at first," Ojakangas, a longtime Minnesota food writer, said. At ...

Tervetuloa (welcome!) to the Knights and Ladies of Kaleva at Fort Pond monthly pannukakkua (traditional Finnish oven pancake) and pula (Finnish braided bread) breakfast. Founded in 1908, the Finnish ...

Finnish foods often use whole grain products like rye, barley and oats, while popular berries include blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries and sea buckthorn. Milk and its derivatives are also ...

In years gone by, Nordic food was considered as glum as northern Europe's winter sun. Perhaps spurred on by the success of what is being dubbed "new Nordic cuisine" and the trailblazing kitchen of ...

IT REQUIRES little insight into Finnish cuisine to guess that people in ‘the land of a thousand lakes’ consume a wide variety of fresh water fish. Yet, Finland could also be dubbed the land of ...

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. Most Finns seem to have mixed feelings ...

France is the promised land of haute cuisine, but now two Finns are trying to get Parisians excited about Finnish delicacies. Their first task is to convince potential customers that Finland’s food ...

In a country where night can last for two months and the sun never sets in summer, seasons dictate the cuisine. Such extremes are readily felt in Northern Finland, yet even in the South, the midsummer ...