FOODNOTE: Hanne på Høyden Restaurant (in Bergen, Norway)

These were my notes while dining at Hanne på Høyden a couple of weeks ago, away on a holiday:   Organic butter and spelt bread like a cream-lined splurge of popcorn but with rose petals notes Oxtail cubes with dill amuse-bouche simple standouts Beef tartar with fresh-cracked quail egg in...

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THE FOOD OF EIDFJORD, NORWAY

Fish Soup is the all-around comfort food of cold Norway, eaten with rustic, hard and chewy wheat-nut rolls and "brown" cheese from mountain goats. Fish bone stock becomes milky; adding root vegetables, onions and herbs clears and draws out its flavor, binding the salmon and cod's vitality like forest...

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THE FOOD OF BUSHWICK

Two blocks north of Roberta's on Thames St. just past Morgan, in one of those old, brick factories turned artist lofts building where I had moved to three years ago this summer from Portland, Ore., I remember setting my first meal over a spread of newspapers in a studio with a built-in stage. I don't...

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