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...bare hands. A Danish TV crew is taking close-ups of my shoes punching through the frozen mud crust. It's hard to say which they find more entertaining: the idea that someone would visit a root-vegetable farm in Prada heels or that anyone would travel to the Nordic region in search of haute cuisine...
...face it, the gastronomic reputation of the far North is as dim as the winter sun. Sure, beets and pickled herring have been somewhat rehabilitated by ambassadors like Marcus Samuelsson of New York City's Aquavit and TV chef Andreas Viestad, Norway's answer to Jamie Oliver. But the Nordic countries are still far better known internationally for progressive living and modern design than for innovative haute cuisine...
With a new coach at the helm for alpine skiers and familiar face Peter Graves in his fifth year as head coach of the Nordic crew, the Crimson delivered on Graves’ promise from last year: “We are going to really produce some much-improved results...
...eyes of her teammates, freshman Nordic skier Audrey Mangan has an especially bright future...
...Swedbank, completed a $2.6 billion takeover of the Hansabank Group, the Baltics' biggest bank, whose distinctive sea-green and orange Viking ship logo can be found from Tallinn to Vilnius. The marriage has worked out well so far. "We have been very, very happy about this interest from the Nordic countries. You can't overestimate their role," says Hansabank's ceo, Erkki Raasuke, a 36-year-old Estonian. The feeling is mutual: Hansabank generated 27% of Swedbank's $1.6 billion in profits last year...