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willie lahti - living in jyväskylä
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Living in Jyväskylä, Finland. I work. I paint. I write.
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Finnish Cultural Assimilation Lesson # 23.6 - Decoding Finnish potato bags
If you have recently moved to Finland you will have noticed that most Finnish supermarkets carry a wide variety of potatoes. They are either sold loose or prepackaged in color-coded plastic bags.If you don't speak Finnish yet you may have a hard time...
Graavisiika ja friteerattu muikku - salt-cured whitefish and fried vendace
In my previous post I was excited about the prospect of a fish market coming to our neighborhood. As of yesterday Kalaliike Mäkinen is open for business at Kauppakatu 6 in Jyväskylä.To celebrate the occasion I bought some graavisiika. Graavisiika ...
Voisilmäpulla
There are quite a few different types of pulla (a sweet cardamom bread), but my favorite pulla variety is voisilmäpulla. Voisilmä is quite literally "butter eye". The "eye" in voisilmäpulla is a mixture of butter and sugar which melt into the pull...
Kalaliike Mäkinen - Mäkinen\'s fish market
It doesn't take much for me to get excited. In this case, the excitement is coming from the fact that a new business is moving to our neighborhood.Kalaliike Mäkinen will be a welcome addition to the Yläkaupunki neighborhood of Jyväskylä. When Div...
Private Finnish lessons in Jyväskylä
For private Finnish lessons in Jyväskylä with an instructor who is flexible concerning teaching and learning styles, I recommend Suomea kahdestaan. The instructor has been teaching Finnish as a second language since 2001.I should also add that the...
A great weekend for music and culture and Vakiopaine
It was a great weekend for music and culture at Vakiopaine. On Friday night Matti Perälä and Kvartetti Q gave a fantastic performance of classic Finnish iskelmä and tango.Matti handled the vocals and Kvartetti Q provided the strings. Kvartetti Q ...
