Buy it now! Absolut Vodka Miami is a limited edition and it is yummy, passion fruity and hot, just like Miami.

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The rutabaga is a Swedish root vegetable called kålrot in Swedish, the old Swedish name for this tasty rooty is rotabagge which means bag of roots, so the exotic name rutabaga is actually derived from Swedish, in England the rutabaga is actually called swede. One of my favorite dishes is rotmos or root mash, it is made from rutabaga, potatoes and carrots. I experimented by replacing the carrots and potatoes with sweet potatoes and the result was deliciously creamy and silky smooth. This dish is not only colorful and tasty it is good for you, rutabagas are high in c-vitamins  combined with the sweet potatoes that are high in a-vitamins sprinkle a lot of parsley on top of your mash and your dish might even lower your blood pressure. Here is how to do it

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The Swedish soccer team BK Häcken from Gothenburg comes to Disney World, Orlando to play against US and Canadian teams from February 25 through March 3.

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The sixth issue of the Swedish magazine Sven is now available online, SVEN is a magazine in Swedish for Swedes living abroad. The current issue focus on home decoration, how to incorpare Swedishness in your home away from Sweden. Read SVEN here http://issuu.com/tidningensven/docs/svennummer6
 

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Finally we get an H&M store in Tampa! Grand Opening today at International Plaza, can't wait to go there this weekend.

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Tomas Tranströmer has been nominated for the prize since 1993 and is a well known writer in Sweden, he is published in 60 languages including English. I will be interesting to read this great Swedish poet in English.

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The sleek and neat Swedish candy store Sockerbit in New York is now offering some of their wonderful sweets online. Today I ordered a big bag of the smågodis us Swedes almost cannot live without such as green frogs, Dumle lakrits, likörpraliner and of course cola bottles. Within a few days I will get my coveted candy bag, yum yum y'all. Hint, if you want to give something a Swede will really appreciate, you cannot go wrong with a bag of smågodis.

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Themepark style museums and souvenir mongering, give to the rich, take from the poor and sick, lack of communication, inefficiency and corruption, obsolete infrastructure, the post 9/11 events depicts how the US works today, in a nutshell. The World Trade Center has become a big money maker for many, including the contractors, amongst them Swedish Skanska, lawyers, non-profits, politicians and government officials have enriched themselves from the billions of taxpayer dollars that have been pumped into various 9/11 projects. At the same the US government claims that more than 60 000 people that were engaged in rescue, clean-up and rebuilding are at risk from having inhaled the toxic dust from the collapsed towers, 28 000 of them have had their health checked and so far 18 500 get medical treatment for physical and mental conditions, for many those conditions are permanent. Not all the sick people have health insurance to cover treatment and medication and some have ended up in misery as the government hasn't been able to approve compensation funds to help the people that used to be called heroes and now are crippled and broke from their exposure to dangerous debris from ground zero. Some Republicans have argued that "it would put the nation's finances at risk" if Congress gave sick 9/11 responders a permanent guaranteed program to ensure they get health care.  There were no such objections when the war against terrorism, including the war against Afghanistan was launched. Yet, again, when the New York police and fire department asked for a modernization of the emergency communication, amongst that emergency radios that during the 9/11 attack were hindered by faulty equipment and overloaded transmissions. Many firefighters in the WTC towers didn't hear the orders to evacuate before the building collapsed, many NYPD radio dispatchers still have nightmares about them hearing the police officers calling for help and not being able to answer. Today, a decade after the attack, followed by hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and floodings, emergency crews from different jurisdictions still can't talk to eachother. The technology to solve these communication problems exists but the US Congress hasn't been able to fund a technology that would save lives and bring the emergency technology into the 21st century. One would suspect that most of the government resources goes to communication technology for the US military, still fighting the ghosts from 9/11 in countries far away. One wonders who and what they will blame when the embarrassing multimedia documents display the desperate lack of information and lack of coordination between the civil and military aviation authorities are finally made available to the public . Contrary to the government officials assurances that fighter pilots had been in pursuit of the hijackers and ready to shoot down the airplanes by order from President George W. Bush, of the four flights, the military had nine minutes notice on the one that flew into the WTC and did not learn about the other three hijacked planes until after they had crashed. Fighter pilots were sent east of Washington in pursuit of of American Airlines flight 11 one hour after it had crashed.  There is  only one factor that differs the 9/11 post 9/11 from todays' US is that the attack actually created jobs - jobs, jobs, jobs.

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The Real Housewives series created by Bravo is addictive, at least the NY Housewives and the Hollywood Housewives. The American housewives manifest an extraordinary nastiness combined with a total lack of intellectualism, humanism or even sense of humor in their way of living the plastic, fantastic American dream. I cannot stop watching these group of women though, they are, to a Swede, fascinating in their pure nastiness, complete lack of style and etiquette, and open greed and jealousy. One of the most hilarious characters is the woman who titles herself Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, just like her name,  she is a bizarre mix of US mobile park dweller with good looks that has taken a few tours in the fine rooms of Europe and now is telling everyone at all times how they are supposed to behave in the most rude way possible and doesn't mind embarrassing her guests with remarks on their short comings in style and finesse. Anyways, fun to watch and make me feel good. The Swedish copy aired on TV3 is bleak to say the least. I watched the first episode online and was very disappointed, being spoiled with the American Housewives the Swedish cast is not bitchy, crazy or glamorous enough to entertain.

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