New Nordic Cuisine is a concept to promote Nordic Cuisine to the world. The Nordic countries include Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. It’s a mix of regional ingredients, high quality produce and a new generation of chefs’ interpretation of traditional recipes.
The best way to experience Polish food is going to a milk bar (bar mleczny), a former Soviet institution offering cheap Polish food. Mostly aimed at workers and poor people, anyone could come in. Dairy products and other typical Polish dishes were served (hence the name).
The Latvian signs are of a geometrical style, harsh in their form, separate in their placement, construcive, simple and clear in their composition, symmetrical. […] each sign should be perceived as a unity of definite movements in time and space, as a process because also in nature (Universe) everything is in movement.
It is a world outlook that unites in one whole the intuitive, imaginary and rational, analytically perceivable. This is knowledge which is written in signs and symbols and which opens up to us as a system, as a world outlook characteristic of the Balts – as patterns created by the Balts’ soul.
– Signs of the Latvian Soul exhibition in Riga
Who hasn’t seen pictures of lavender fields in the Provence? With them being just in season, I could not pass up the opportunity to see for myself. Transportation can be kind of tricky because, well, those are fields, so don’t count on public transport. Either go by car or take a tour from Avignon (or some other bigger city close by). The tour also included a visit of the village of Gordes which sits on top of a hill.
