Welcome to the most recent version of Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s weekly publication, Hey There, It’s Amanda, full of meals, journey, and purchasing suggestions, Food52 doings, and different issues that catch her eye. Get impressed—enroll right here for her emails.

I’m in Oslo with my pal and co-founder, Merrill—prepare for some Norway suggestions coming quickly!

Additionally, quite a lot of you’ve got despatched me photographs of your kitchen and eating areas so I can share my styling ideas. I’ll be posting them as I can, within the coming weeks.

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• Nea describes her Swedish Skinny Buttery Pancakes as softer, extra delicate crepes—they give the impression of being as gentle as tissue paper.

• On her present, It’s Advantageous, Tess makes basic recipes for the primary time. This week, she did a deep-cut on French Coq au Vin, which she made with rooster and to my shock, no haters got here out to bash this dangerous shortcut! Is the web getting nicer?

• My sister despatched me this spring meme. She lives in Colorado, the place April could be 80 levels sooner or later and 30 levels the following. New York Metropolis isn’t a lot better. So bean stew remains to be technically in season. Noah, one among our proficient and hyper-productive check kitchen cooks, created this Georgian Bean Stew, made with floor nuts, harissa, and entire coriander seeds. It’s served with fried corn truffles. Each recipes are right here.

• We re-issued a Dansk serving board in two sizes. Dansk launched a military of serving and carving boards again within the day—the teak ones with end-grain facilities are the very best, in my opinion. Finish-grain boards are extremely sturdy, and the tessellations within the wooden achieve character with every use.

Printemps, the storied 160-year-old Paris division retailer, just lately opened a location in Manhattan’s monetary district. The bar/cafe-to-shopping-space ratio is remarkably excessive: 5 locations to eat and drink in a two-floor retailer. It made me understand simply how a lot purchasing has moved from procurement of products to social spectatorship. Printemps was designed as a lot as a spot to socialize and gawk than as a spot to promote clothes. It sells aspiration and fantasy, and this sort of escapism feels good on this second.

My first put up for Homeward, my new home-design publication, went up, and it’s a panorama of the ’70s and ’80s. Learn the put up and see the photographs right here. And take a look at the wildly energetic Chat right here!

Yours, from the fjords,

Amanda