Category: Food
Nothing like what I expected
It was a still day, cold and quiet, as I walked alone over rocks and snow. My heavy boots crunched through the crisp…
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Touching seals
Trudging across the sea ice – three geologists, returning from a day’s work amongst iced-in islands in east Antarctica – we spotted a…
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Old Man and the Sea
It was a lot of meat. I had stopped by the gate leading down to the pier to look at the large plastic…
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Greenlandic surprises
The surprises one meets in Greenland might be out of the ordinary, but the responses one becomes accustomed to are perhaps even more…
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“Why do you need to send her a picture of your penis?”
“I need to send a picture of my penis to Kate*,” said my husband. I looked up slowly from my laptop. “Why do…
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Political change and a whiff of dried fish
In Greenland, the winds of political change usually come with a whiff of dried fish or mattak. So it was last week when…
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Foods to cut down on while pregnant – polar bear
The antenatal classes I attend in Nuuk are a two-and-a-bit language affair. Our Greenlandic midwife speaks mostly in Danish, a little in Greenlandic,…
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Fermented shark?
*Photo by Julian Idrobo, Creative Commons I used to live in Australia’s tropical north where it’s so hot and humid that you long…
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“Dad can’t pick me up, he’s butchering a reindeer”
The two boys had been playing all day and, with dinner approaching, I told my son’s friend it was time for him to…
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