I’ve been really stuck on a lot of the small island nations - St Kitts and Nevis? Palau? With food - I prefer to go to a proper restaurant but for harder cases like Abkhazia I ordered some candy online (and debatable whether that’s a country any way)

Anyone else have a similar project?

  • comador @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I was about 60% international travel for 15 years (Industrial Automation) and got into a similar thing:

    Basically I feel that in order to experience somewhere, you have to get out of the tourist zone, then eat where the locals eat.

    One of my coolest experience was in Port Harcourt, Nigeria where my wife and I partook in what can only be described as a Yoruba (language) BBQ featuring a lovely dish of Esunsun (Termites) and rice while drinking some Kegite Club (fermented palm date juice) and singing yoruba songs with drunken dancing.

  • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I once tried to sleep with the alphabet. Using the first letter of their names. Some letters are just impossible.

    Anyway, for Nigeria I recommend Danger by the Lijadu Sisters. It’s 70’s prog rock by identical twin sisters.

    For Canada you should check out Something’s Fishy at Camp Wiganishie by Al Simmons, featuring the classic I Collect Rocks.

    If you’re having trouble finding food from everywhere, damn near every country has at least one special bread, like naan, rye, injera, sopapilla, casava cake etc. If you’re into baking you can make the bread.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You could do ABBA which is a brand of pickled herring and a band for Sweden. Not sure if there is a book in the same spirit.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Nah, Västerbottensost is far more interesting.

      It is a unique cheese made in Burträsk in Sweden, and I can recommend it far above pickled herring

    • Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Great book by a Swede… The 100 year Old Man who Climbed Out A Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Surprisingly good and funny. Light hearted. If you like books about people being on the road. Good stuff.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    New Zealand here. The most traditional Pacific Island foods are cooked in an earth oven - cover the food in tinfoil, wrap it in wet sacks, place it on hot stones in a hole you’ve dug, then cover it with earth until enough time has passed to cook it. Chances are you won’t find that in a restaurant, so I’m going to recommend our favourite dip. Take one can reduced cream (like condensed milk but thicker and unsweetened) and mix thoroughly with one packet dehydrated onion soup. Cover with film and leave in the fridge for an hour to set. Simple!

    For an album I’m going to recommend We Rise by alt-metal band Devilskin. It’s uniformly good and singer Jenny Skulander has a powerful voice.

    For a book, try Gideon the Ninth by Tamsin Muir. Sci-Fantasy necromancers in space. How can you go wrong?

  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Estonia

    Food: Verivorst with lingonberry jam ideally, but cranberry will do in a pinch. Short of that, you can try our famous mustard, Põltsamaa Kange , which might be easier to import if you’re located far away.

    Music: I’m mostly into hip-hop so in Estonian language I’d suggest Valitud Mõtted by Noizmakaz (‘Select Thoughts’) or Ühendatud Inimesed by Chalice (‘Connected People’). Both are from the 00s. Anything by Metsatöll is great if you want to listen to folk metal, I won’t even give you a specific album. Good Man Down by Ewert And The Two Dragons for something in English, it’s pretty good and has kind of a modern folk vibe (folk-ish music has been really popular last few decades here).

    Book: Truth and justice is the obvious choice if you have time for a pentalogy. If you want something more modern and funny, The man who spoke Snakish is THE book to read. Andrus Kivirähk is a national treasure. Any time I happen to turn the radio on when his and Mart Juur’s show is on, it makes my Sunday morning much better. Somehow I’ve got like 300-400 books here in this house and that’s not one of them so I should go buy it since I’ve only read parts of it.

  • djmikeale@feddit.dk
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    2 months ago

    Yeah I did a similar thing - cooking a dish from every country in the world. Think I got to 30 countries or something and then I got distracted with other projects. Also struggled because the list I made had some nations without inhabitants.

    Anyways! For Denmark, I’d recommend

    • “Ris A La mande” which has that name to sound French, but has nothing to do with France
    • Tina Dickow - count to ten (listened to this a lot back in high school and learned to play some of the tracks on piano)
    • as for books, I’m not sure.
    • nilaus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      As a classic alternative try:

      -Frikadeller with potatoes and gravy

      -Shubidua (any album)

      -barndommens gade (street of childhood) by Tove Ditlevsen

  • imrighthere@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Canada: Poutine/Rush-Moving Pictures or 2112/Margaret Atwood - whichever title interests you.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Alias Grace is slept on, but Oryx and Crake fucked me up and changed my life.

      Poutine is one of those foods that could be used as an argument for a benevolent creator deity.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Not a project but an illusion. I’d like to do a road trip around Spain buying food typical of each region and at the end make big diner party with samples of everything collected during the trip.

  • mastertigurius@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Norway: kjøttkaker i brun saus (fried meatballs in gravy). “Grand Declaration of War” by Satyricon is a good introduction to Norwegian Black Metal. Any book by Jo Nesbø is a page turner, but if you want a true classic, go for Edda (collection of old Viking poems).