Today, Anna Brooks enjoys life in the subtropical climate of Vero Beach, but she still remembers how, as a little girl named Anna Opgaard, she visited her grandparents’ farm north of the Arctic Circle in Norway.
There, in the brief months of summer, cloudberries would ripen and cover the fields with their bright orange hue. A favorite way of using the tart berry with its distinctive apricot-raspberry taste, she recalls, was to make multekrem. Mixing the berries with fresh whipped cream would create a tasty dessert for the days that stretched long into the night with the help of the midnight sun.
Anna’s grandparents farmed in a region called Finmark, the largest district in Norway and the least populated. The Finmark city of Knivskjellodden is the northernmost point of the Norwegian mainland; another town, Hornoya, is the easternmost.
Read the entire article in the November 2005 issue
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