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Drinkers At Home And Such: It supplements this report with a little dictionary of food terms, a list of regional specialties and some basic comments on "Wines and Alcohols," with "Some Simple Rules for Drinking." We Americans are not a nation of wine drinkers at home and such candid comment is very useful to the timid traveler. Most books omit it, as being self-understood—which it isn't.
For each custom home design plan, he sends his team of stone and timber experts into the forests of Northern New England to find giant boulders, entire trees or 8-ton Granite stones that become the signature elements of each custom built home.
When asked about the use of such unusual materials in his design Nold said, "When a client wants their weekend, or second home to provide retreat and renewal far from their primary home - this distance is not measured just in miles, but in the emotions their home evokes.
Swedish drinks, of alcoholic content (see report under "Nuggets" about the Hfting of restrictions), feature akvavit, called also brdnnvin, and beer. In the smarter restaurants, imported French wines are served, but they are, of course, expensive. A soft drink, meaning lemonade or some near cousin, is sockerdricka (literally "sugardrink"), and not bad. An apple-juice beverage is popular with soft-drinkers, and it is axiomatic that milk is pure and delicious in this dairy land. |
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