Flavors of the Fjords The Norwegian Holiday Cookbook

A unique new work on Norwegian foods, holiday customs, recipes, & the "Norwegian-American Experience." Authentic, mouth-watering Norwegian holiday recipes updated from Marie Fladvad Cottrell's original 19th century manuscript cookbook. Dishes reflect authentic cooking & those flavors, uniquely Norwegian, brought to America by nearly one million immigrants. Over 150 unpublished photographs showcased by 8 1/2 X 11 format illustrate life from "Norway-to-Newport," 1870-1994, including an autographed picture of Roald Amundsen. 1,800-word Norwegian-English Glossary of foods, cooking & family life. 1994. $24.95 ISBN 0-9640138-0-0. Recipes for over 100 holiday cookies, cakes, breads, toppings, & puddings are interwoven with fascinating bits of Norwegian & Newport, Rhode Island social history. Poignant recollections & photographs chronicle life in Newport--all was not "Bellevue Avenue high life." One chapter traces the history of the Fladvad & Bjerke families in Norway from 1400-1900, revealing fascinating glimpses of life & times in historic Norway. Another section describes the trials of life in German-occupied Norway during World War II. BelleAire Press, P.O. Box 4284, Crofton, MD 21104-4284. (301) 464-4789 Tele/FAX.Connors, Faith C. is the author of 'Flavors of the Fjords The Norwegian Holiday Cookbook' with ISBN 9780964013803 and ISBN 0964013800.