LövångerBrod Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2004-07-01-bread/20040701_001_4714 2004-07-01-bread/20040701_003_5352 2004-07-01-bread/20040701_005_6223 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Last week I got some great bread in a supermarket in Helsinki. Really great bread - possibly the tastiest bread I've ever had, somehow combining the best parts of French bread, Indian nan, and Belgian waffles. The package said: <center><font size="+2">LövångerBrod</a></font></center> When I was done with it, I went looking for it in other supermarkets, but didn't find it. I eventually came back to the same one where I got it originally, and got a slightly differ kind of essentially the same bread (they had three types to chose from). This one said: <center><font size="+2">Lövånger Bamseråg</font></center> It also said, in smaller print "En klassisk rågkaka med en lätt kryddning." I later asked some Finnish friends about this great bread, but nobody seemed to have any idea what I was talking about. So, I am posting some photos so that I could ask people to check if I wasn't quite explaining it well enough, or if indeed the locals don't know that a supermarket in downtown Helsinki sells the tastiest bread in the world. <b>Update</b> A couple of people have pointed out that this might be the same or similar to "rieska" ("traditional bread from Lappland, made from barley, wheat and potatoes") I tried some rieska today, and it is very different. Rieska is also flat bread, but the similarity ends there. It's much smaller (Lövånger is about 20 cm in diameter, rieska is more like 10), it's a bit more sour, and the texture is very different. Rieska is decent bread and might make it to my top 20, but it's not quite comparable to Lövånger. BTW, a friend says that the longer line in Swedish mentioned above means something like "traditional rye bred with some spices." Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Content Template Page Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Don't put anything here Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here save preview cancel