Photo Journal/ A-Z Photo Challenge: F is for Food in Finland

It’s Tuesday once more, time for Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Story Challenge. Letter this week is F and I choose the theme Food in Finland.

Food in Finland

When my good friend, Professor Tuting Hernandez and I were in Finland a year ago to attend a conference in Helsinki, there was this charming little bistro close to our hotel that we would frequent. The food is fabulous, the service is wonderful, the entire vibe of the place is rustic, homey, and one that you would definitely return to again and again. We must have gone there more than three times in our six-day stay in Helsinki. The place is called Cafe Amico and here are some photographs from that lovely place.

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.” – Lemony Snicket

“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.” ― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” 
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” 
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” 
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” 
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” 
― Mark Twain

“And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:

Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.” 
― Khalil Gibran

“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.” 
― Mark Twain