Tracking Down the Past: Making Ice Cream (Denmark & Vancouver)
In 2018 Al & I headed to Denmark and Sweden with the idea of meeting up with my aunts and uncles and cousins, and also to track down some of […]
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The Second Day in Zihuatanejo on the Mexican Pacific Coast
Our first day in Zihuatanejo was about discovering all the changes in the town 20 years later. December 7. The next morning we headed down to the beach and the […]
Back from Tropical Sweden
The bus driver takes one look at us with our suitcases and says, “Sorry, we don’t allow tourists on this bus.” We are astonished and I actually take a step […]
Working at Arctic Ice Cream in Vancouver, 1951
Editor/Daughter’s Note: From my dad’s journal of memories, this story from Vancouver in 1951. I met a young Dane named Poul and we moved into a rooming house on Thurlow […]
Starting a Creamery in Aarhus, Denmark in 1932
From my dad’s journal of memories: a story from his life when he was a teenager in Denmark during the dirty thirties. The Brick and Cement Jungle: Aarhus, Denmark. Aarhus, or the […]
Travel Theme: Creamy Calories from Around the World
Some delicious cream dishes from around the world. Scones with Irish butter, black current jam and clotted cream – these totally distracted me from our waterfall walk in the Antrim […]
Wine & Food of the Rhone Valley: Class 2 Part 2
The second half of our second class on the food and wine of the Rhone River Valley featured ‘Mandarin Orange Pork Ribs with Roasted Carrots and Potatoes‘ followed by a […]
Food and Wine from the Loire Valley, Class 1 Part 2
This is the second half of our class on the food and wine of the Loire Valley. After soup and two filling appetizers, the main course was a light salad […]
From Veracruz: Frozen Mango Dessert
Our Veracruz-style dessert, ‘Dulce de Mango‘ (frozen mango concoction), was accompanied by a very unusual rum and peanut butter drink called ‘Torito de Cacahuates‘! The frozen mango dessert was a mix […]
Wildberry atole ‘custard’ with home-made almond ice cream
For the dessert of our Mexican cooking class featuring a menu from Michoacán, we prepared wildberry atole ‘custard’ with home-made almond ice cream. Atoles are usually hot drinks made of […]
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