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Small, high-quality producers and foraged native foods are also the driving passion of Finnish chef Markus Maulavirta of Restaurant Ilmatar in the stylish Klaus K hotel in Helsinki. He even owns a patch of Arctic swamp to pick his own cloudberries and joins an annual wild-reindeer roundup in Lapland. For his 50th birthday, the chef spent 12 days biking the entire length of Finland, savoring every mile of the journey. His menu is an ode to the land, its traditions and its caretakers, featuring items like bread made from birch-bark flour, and sauna-cured ham from pigs...
...encountered very different realities in the Arctic--and different reactions from locals. In Hammerfest, where reindeer graze in the glow of a gas flare, Purvis found Norwegians delighted by the rewards from a natural-gas extraction plant. In Resolute, the native Inuit are not so sanguine about the benefits of balmy weather. One man invited Graff to watch a videotape of his 16-year-old daughter killing her first polar bear, a rite of passage that is under threat as the melting ice reduces the bear population. For the Inuit, says Graff, "the idea that a warmer Arctic would...
...year holidays, many Americans may be too busy with other things (or recovering from them) and not ready to focus on the Presidential race, says University of Texas political science professor Bruce Buchanan. Voters are likely to be hearing Rudy Giuliani's jingles along with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and find their mailboxes stuffed with Christmas cards from Hillary (and Bill). Buchanan is concerned that the early primaries will energize "the fringes of the two parties," leading to more polarization in the political scene. It also denies voters a chance to fully explore the credentials and record of candidates...
...passing trade, there was none. Two leaping-reindeer cutouts, stuck to the wall of a grimy East End car park, were the only clues. "I like to make it tough to find a restaurant. If you can't find it, you shouldn't be coming," says Flack, who reveals that the pair's investment was about $1.7 million. As to why anyone might want to build a kitchen and bring in a gas supply to an old brewery for less than a month, Flack says his core crowd expects it. "Young Londoners are used to everything around them changing quickly...
...Reindeer, which was open for just 23 days and nights in the run-up to Christmas, was booked solid before it even existed. More than 11,000 lunch and dinner slots in a candlelit winter wonderland, complete with snow-dusted pine trees, were filled by Nov. 1, thanks to an October spot on YouTube, a viral e-mail campaign and word of mouth. It helped that the Reindeer's creators, Pablo Flack and David Waddington, who also helm an East End venue called Bistroteque, are particularly plugged in. A former fashion student turned restaurateur, Waddington studied at Central St. Martins...