![]() ![]() Here at the White Gull Inn, in the 5-degree darkness of a winter night, the Boil Master tends a massive fish-filled cauldron. They found both in abundance on Wisconsin’s north-eastern peninsula, now Door County. ![]() When nineteenth-century Scandinavians landed on American shores, they sought the familiar: pine forests towering with timber and icy waters teeming with fresh fish. Crank up the Sigur Ros, season the aebelskiver pan, and get ready to plunder the kitchen. Whether it’s New Nordic reindeer and rye or old-fashioned immigrant traditions from the states up north, there are endless ways to have your gravadlax and krumkake too. So, if you need help finding the pleasure of those long, dark February nights, seek out the people who know how to thrive in the cold. “Cosy” is as close as our paltry English gets. It’s an untranslatable kind of perfect winter feeling that you crave this time of year. The Swedish call it mysig, the Norwegians hygge. I’ll even dance in the wind chill and jump for the joy of shovelling. Shower me with snow and souse me with cocoa. ![]()
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