
Essays, humour, and food writing from a British former chef in Finland.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 160 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 19 days ago |
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“Do you think it’s getting bigger?” I asked my wife, Silja, in our bedroom earlier this spring. My shirt was already lifted to my neck, conveniently offering her a full view of my back.
“Again, Wil? The mole?”
“You know I can’t get a good...
I live in Finland with my Finnish wife, our two Finnish children, and an epileptic dog from Sweden because my friend Billy chipped my tooth with a granite kitchen pestle on Good Friday, 2013.
Billy and I were living in that riverside corne...
The day has come again.
Finland has, for the 9th year in a row, been named “happiest country in the world”.
I’ll always remember what my father-in-law said to me when we first discussed this event (back in 2021 when Finland had been so-na...
I’m writing this on a boat on my way from Sweden back to Finland.
As I look out the window of our little cabin, I see the icy white waters of the Stockholm Archipelago are now replaced by the calmer, darker seas dotted with the rocky isla...
The message arrived from our kids’ daycare like a ferret with a drinking problem telling me my similes aren’t funny:
Dear Parents, Stomach flu is circulating among the children. If your child is ill, don’t bring them back until they’ve b...
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British writer and former chef in Finland. A Winter Book is the home of my essays, food writing and recipes.
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