Friday at work, I casually mentioned to a group of Norwegian colleagues that I’d tried a new Norwegian food called Gamalost. After they stopped laughing, which took a while, they told me two important things: Gamalost means “Old Cheese” “It’s special, it’s for special people” Further inquiry (again, resulting in laughter) revealed that the people in their 50′s remember their parents eating this. Gamalost seems to have lost a few generations. Memo to Gamalost...

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One of the many joys of spending three weeks in a little flat on a fjord in Norway is getting to grocery shop. Usually on business trips I face an endless parade of restaurants or indifferent room service. Here I have the fun of the miniature grocery store just a few blocks away. Imagine an efficient little store about a fifth the size of typical American supermarket (typical as in Safeway, not Super Target...

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