text and images britt-arnhild
A new cafe has opened. At Bakklandet, the area close to the river, with the old wooden houses. While other shops and coffee houses close, while new, huge malls are being built here as in the rest of the western world, ruining the city centers, a new place opens. And my heart sings.
I don´t like malls. They are all built the same, they all lack the charm of a living city center, a thriving downtown. There are many malls around Trondheim. I never go there. There are also malls inside the cuty. I go there if I have to, tough I prefere the individual stores and small shops.
Cafes and coffee shops in malls.........never!
So when a new, tiny little bakery and cafe opens, with a smiling waitress behind the counter, a waitress who is eager to chat with you, I know I have found a place after my heart.
I buy a cappuccino and I treat myself to a pistachio macaroon. As the first customer of the morning, I sit down in the low, comfortable sofa. I drink my coffee, I eat my sweet, I write in my diary, I read in my book........and I enjoy the moment.
The book I read is an old one, which I bought at the antiquarian with Torgeir a few weeks ago. A travel tale from the coast of Norway. Hi, did I say that the book is old? It was born the same year as I was, which is not old at all. The book I read is a book in her best age! En suppe i solen, A Soup in the Sun. Fish soup. There is something about fish soup which touches my heart. Terje and I had fish soup after the funeral. We will have fish soup again tonight, as we will finally celebrate Terje´s birthday, delayed because of my bad cold, which has left now (almost).
A friend wrote Jorda rundt på 80 fiskesupper, Around the World on 80 fish soups, some years ago. One day I would love to write a fish soup travel tale book, with a few vongole recipes in between.
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How do you like your fish soup served?
Do you have a fish soup recipe to share?
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I was so sure I had posted my own fish soup recipe, but now I have been searching hight and low, and I can´t find it. May be I need my camera tonight when I make the soup for the birthday party.......
