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jakob@pod.orkz.net
Jakobu

The fedtemad

Literally fat-food could be translated as: grease sandwich. The thing is that a rye bread one side sandwich in Danish is called 'a food.' Mention any sort of topping, potato, salami, tomato, add the word -food to the end and it means a piece of rye bread with that topping (potato, salami or tomato) on top. This one is with melted pork fat!

One hundred years ago Copenhagen working class children was brought up on this fare. Not exactly unhealthy. Rye bread is very healthy and a bit of fat in a hungry child never harmed anyone. But they did often suffer from malnutrition and later, in the thirties, forties and fifties, there was a program that sent those pale and skinny children on summer holidays in the countryside with friendly farming families who took their social responsibility serious. Here they could benefit from clean air, sun, seawater and that healthy and varied farm diet.

Below is a small film of Copenhagen children leaving from the Central Station in 1940.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvyewi4aOg

My mother who grew up in central Copenhagen's riff-raff quarter has told me how the children shouted to their mothers who were all stay-at-home moms, to throw down the grease-sandwich wrapped in newspaper.

It is not bad actually with a pinch of salt (the brown bits are crunchy pieces made when you melt the fat.) The pork fat is also used instead of butter on traditional Danish smørrebrød when you eat pickled herring or old cheese.

And keeping with the fat topic, I just saw this introduction to Danish pastry as it is made in Denmark (should be something completely different from what is called Danish pastry in the USA I've heard). Another grand way of consuming large amounts of fat... in this case butter.

#Food #fat #grease #crunchy #bits #Denmark #Rye #history #Copenhagen

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jakob@pod.orkz.net
Jakobu

Our small Wyzard Tower garden has been producing enormous amounts of tomatoes. The principle I have enforced has been to let the plants grow wild with no pruning down to increase harvest. I like things to just go wild. It has sometimes gone a bit too wild, so some of those new gentrification pest neighbours are worried that their children would die due to falling tomatoes. Killer tomatoes.

My wife have this year tried beef tomatoes that in this cold climate, where all fruits and vegetables get intense aromas in a trade off with less crop, have tasted almost melon like. Our youngest daughter didn't fancy them, probably because they were to large, luscious, colourful and alien shaped. So we have had tomato salads every evening, and I have been eating rye bread with mayonnaise and tomatoes for lunch for quite some time. Now the chillies are soon ready for harvest and the tomatoes are over. As you can see on the last picture, we are ready for winter now, with the thyme, rosemary and the survivor pine tree as the only residents on the balcony. The rest of the spices have moved inside - (actually they are right now on display in some plastic recycling design project my wife has on exhibition right now - they will return shortly she has promised).

Next year we will return to the less frivolous sort of tomatoes and have many, many more chillies!

#gardening #urbangardening #winteriscoming #tomato #chilli #balcony #Copenhagen #Denmark

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baztian@joindiaspora.com
Baz

Books that I read in 2021 - number 30:

Now I have finally read the last part of the Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen. „Dependency" is the title of this also short book. It is indeed the most spectacular of the three parts (but also the most challenging for me). It relentlessly describes the story of a drug addiction from the inside. No wonder that the humour of the first two parts is somewhat lost in this topic. It is still extremely gripping to have the power of addiction described in this way.

#ToveDitlevsen #copenhagen #denmark #sucht #dependency #drugs #buch #autorin #femalewriter #worker #workingclass #autofictional #trilogy #recomendation #books #literature #fan #married #gift #poet #vesterbro

baztian@joindiaspora.com
Baz

Books that I read in 2021 - number 19:

Right after the first part, I have now read the second part of the Copenhagen trilogy by this great female writer. Youth is the title and that is exactly what this unfortunately very slim book is about. With a clear, humorous style, she describes her years after leaving school and her path to becoming a poet. Now I have really turned into a Tove Ditlevsen fan.

#ToveDitlevsen #copenhagen #denmark #kindheit #buch #autorin #femalewriter #worker #workingclass #dreissigerjahre #autofictional #trilogy #recomendation #books #literature #fan #office #poet #artworld #verleger #vesterbro

baztian@joindiaspora.com
Baz

Books that I read in 2021 - number 17:

It took me a while to immerse myself in the world of this book. This is the first part of the "Copenhagen Trilogy" by Danish female writer Tove Ditlevsen. Her own language creates an amazing connection from the heart of the working-class child in 1920s Copenhagen directly to the future, to us today. Now I have finished the book and want to buy the second part immediately. What a discovery.

#ToveDitlevsen #denmark #copenhagen #kindheit #buch #autorin #femalewriter #worker #workingclass #zwanzigerjahre #autofictional #trilogy #recomendation #books #literature