Norwegian Wood Bengt & Lotta Show your Swedish pride

Show your Swedish pride

Each of the fifty recipes is accompanied by the luscious photography of Christian Brun

punctuated by surprising love matches

He now runs workshops in his native Sweden and appears at the International Carving Festival Täljfest

and learns bits of folklore from fishermen in the far north while pulling codfish from the icy waters

Norwegian Wood Bengt & Lotta Show your Swedish prideThe latest Scandinavian publishing phenomenon is not a Stieg Larssonlike thriller; its a book about chopping, stacking, and burning wood that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway and Sweden and has been a fixture on the bestseller lists there for more than a year. Norwegian Wood provides useful advice on the rustic hows and whys of taking care of your heating needs, but its also a thoughtful attempt to understand mans age old predilection for