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Tina Nordström is only 32 years old but she has already sold over one million copies of her books and created six seasons of Scandinavia's most popular food series for television. In September 2005 Tina will make her debut on American television with the first of a series of programs called "New Scandinavian Cooking," which will initially be broadcast on Channel 13 in New York.
The cheese Tina makes in Vemdalen is not your everyday Swiss or cheddar, but a special concoction called "messmör," which is dark-colored and slightly sweet. During the Christmas season, Tina journey's into Sweden's mountainous heartland, to Dalarna. Dressed in a folk costume inherited from her grandmother, the youthful, charming cook takes an active part in the festivities, even the bizarre "Frog Dance" that is ...
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Above, speakers and organizers in the library at Scandinavia House, New York, photographed by Henrilc [Henrik Olund] for Nordic Reach, left to right: Fronzisca [Franzisea Seel], Executive Director, Global Youth Action Network; Bo Ekmon, Chairman and founder; Nayan Chanda, Director Vale Center for the Study of Globalizotion; Anders Wijkcmon, Vice Chairman of the Foundation, EU parliamentarian; Sharon Horn, Executive Director Human Rights in Chinajjames Hansen, head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Population: 200. A village in Dalarna, the central region of Sweden, a.k.a. Dalecarlia, ...
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Stella McCartney is a great designer, too, and [Margareta] (who happens to be my sister-in-law) has a high regard for her professionalism. The same goes for the Dutch couple Viktor & Rolf who were "married to" h&m at a big party in Los Angeles. When the collection had been out for a while Margareta got a letter from the designers saying that unluckily there had to be a divorce, "but can't we stay friends?" (They did.)
Van den Bosch has been H&M's fashion director since 1987, a job she got in an absolutely crazy way. She had been a free lance designer in Italy and Sweden for some time and decided to approach H&M, which had already seen extraordinary, not to say explosive expansion for many years, mainly because of its founding principle: fashion and quality at the best pr...
...She was born in Dalarna, the daughter of Alice and Ewert Karlsson, a farm ...
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Although O-Ringen isn't a world championship per se, it's been won by many elite orienteers - typically someone with a last name that sounds Swedish, Finnish or Norwegian. But some new countries have recently made it into the sport's top echelon. The best male orienteer in the world today is a Frenchman named Thierry Gueorgiou. The best female is Simone N'iggli-Luder of Switzerland. To reach that level, they've trained in Finland and Sweden, respectively.
There's a lot to take in at O-Ringen, but the main attraction is, of course, the orienteering itself. As a first-timer, I was nervous on Day 1. Swedish terrain is very different from Texas terrain. It's much more detailed - full of complex rock formations and marshy depressions, areas of "bare" rock covered with moss. It's perfectly de...
... Try it again when we return to "Mecca" in Dalarna this summer. Copyright Swedish News, Inc. Jun 2008...