Coffee and other popular hot drinks

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

I was in Peniche last year...the coffee was good there. Cheap too. Can't remember which one I was buying, it was some big thing, but I got addicted to it in a very short time.

[EP]

Finland where you do an MA in 10 - 15 years and don't finish it and walk around telling everyone that you still have the MA

Well, that leaves them time to read.

Joana, there are some Finnish books translated into English. I think one of the succesful ones is The Egyptian by Mika Waltari. It was turned into a Hollywood movie sometime in 1950`s.

And then there is Under The North Star by Väinö Linna. It is a trilogy that covers happenings in Finland 1900-late 1940´s.

[ajdias]

Joana, do yourself a favor and load your baggage allowance with good coffee when you fly to Finland. I~ll be happy to buy the excess from you
Decent espresso coffee starts at 4 e./package and it's not as good IMO - no point in argue who's got the best coffee, it's an acquired taste FYI.

and about Finnish writers? Never read book wrote by a Finnish writer. Is there any recommendation? (Of books translated into English)

I got the "Seven brothers" here, started reading it long ago but wasn't able to finish it, and never got around to restart... Read "Under the northern star", the first one, and quite enjoyed, as well as Juha.

Just googled it, this guys publish most of it: http://www.aspasiabooks.com/Catalog.php

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

It's a shame that a lot of modern Finnish books don't get translated. Y'know, just garbage stuff you can read on the crapper...only the 'classics' which is a shame. there's one or 2 translated but not too much.

Any foreigners read that Year of the Rabbit?

Woudn't mind owning this..If the art work was in a style I liked

http://www.aspasiabooks.com/Catalog_View.php?ID=52

[Joana_L]

Bubba, i'm glad to hear that I am an addicted, too.
hope you have liked to come here : )


EP and Ajdias , Thanks a lot for the suggestions any of you read a book by a Portuguese author?

Ajdias,when I go there i take coffee and there is no need to pay: D in exchange you can take me to know a little of Finland.

I don't know if you understood : \ each cup of coffee is about 50 cents but with the packages is different ... are more expensive ... each package, depending on the brand ...

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

Never been to Portugal so...Yeah - it was cool. The real town of Peniche was nice...I was staying in the beachy/tourist area but that was fun. Didn't get the chance to go to Lisbon though, but hope to next time.

[Joana_L]

hum... i see... in so many countries are good books that don't get transleted. I have a friend in Romania that reads to me (in Portuguese) excerpts of books from Romania and I love! however, there's no translation of these books ... even in english

[EP]

any of you read a book by a Portuguese author

I just remember that Saramago´s Jesus-book... I think and I think, but nothing else comes to mind. There has to be others... I just hardly ever think about the nationality of the author.

[Joana_L]

Hum..The Gospel According to Jesus Christ? ...

António Lobo Antunes? Miguel Esteves Cardoso? do you know these authors?

[Jukka Aho]

I read that Finns are among the world's most avid readers and that the country's extensive library network suports the reading habit. If this is true I'm very happy and even more anxious to go to finland :wink:

• Libraries in Finland
• libraries.fi – a web portal for (public) libraries in Finland

I read other thing that made my curiosity explode : coffe gets Finns moving on cold, dark winter mornings. It provides strenght to last the day and ( here goes the strange thing)even sends people to sleep.. Is this true?

I know many who drink coffee as the first thing in the morning and as the last thing in the evening.

Coffee is a very popular drink in Finland as i read.

Fancier coffee types, methods of making coffee, and cafés have made some inroads, but it’s typically drip-filter coffee at homes, made with a bog-standard drip-filter coffee maker. The grandpa generation might fancy a coffee kettle instead, and many would also use that method when on a hiking trip, or on special occasions, for either nostalgia or practical reasons, such as when you’re spending your summer vacation in a summer cottage with no electricity or in your late grandpa’s place which features a wood-burning range.

The typical Finnish blend is lightly roasted, with high acidity, and you buy it ground in half kilo vacuum packs (which are hard as a rock when unopened and keep for a year or so.) It’s possible it’s not the kind of blend/roast you’re used to.

• Finnish coffee: preserving a Scandinavian tradition
• Enjoyable coffee moments since 1876 - Paulig 130 years

Pro tip: Never buy coffee from Finnish gas/service stations... or other public places, such as ordinary cafeterias, where it’s not made for you before your eyes. That stuff they keep warm in their pots for hours to end is vile. I’d say it’s better to opt for the coffee machine in those situations.

They talk about other hot drinks : hot blackcurrant juice and "glogi", a Nordic version of mulled wine. Are this drinks good? :D hum?

They’re nice in the winter and during the Christmas season. Hot blueberry juice/soup is also something that might traditionally be enjoyed, for instance, right after doing some cross-country skiing in the winter, or offered to kids as a treat when they have been playing outside on a cold winter day. (Just note that winters have been getting milder here so you’d usually have to travel north from Helsinki in order to experience a “real” Finnish winter and winter outdoor activities these days.)

[Jukka Aho]

and about Finnish writers? Never read book wrote by a Finnish writer. Is there any recommendation? (Of books translated into English)

Here are some pointers:

• Books from Finland (explore the menu bar)
• Translation database – see their older database as well (choose Portuguese or English, hit Submit)
• Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English (A Google Books search result)
• FILI: A World of Books

[silk]

I know many who drink coffee as the first thing in the morning and as the last thing in the evening.

I remember drinking coffee at breakfast at a very early age. Only learned later that maybe coffee isn't that good for children...

Interesting links Jukka. Prohibition of coffee in the 18th century, then the prohibition of alcohol in the early 20th century which increased coffee consumption... Has the Fair Trade coffee movement made inroads in Finland yet?

[EP]

Yes, fair trade coffee is here. And tea. And bananas. Yesterday I bought fair trade roses.

[silk]

Yes, fair trade coffee is here. And tea. And bananas. Yesterday I bought fair trade roses.

I just found out what fair trade is in Finnish: reilu kauppa. According to the Finnish wiki article Finland is the fourth biggest per capita consumer of fair trade goods.

[AlexInHelsinki]

Have a friend who worked for a fair trade tea company for a long time. Apparently the guidelines to get that lovely icon stamped on your product are very outdated and unregulated...apparently fair trade ain't very fair.