![]() Today she works almost exclusively with illustrations (not only food related). It was also a way to showcase her work as an illustrator. In 2005 , she started kokblog as a way to collect her recipes. It was a challenge and she learned how to save overly salted stews and what to do when a dough couldn’t keep together. For a couple years she trained people in a large kitchen in Malm ö, serving lunch and fika for 20-30 guests every day. So not surprising, she ended up as an baking illustrator. She has a background in Social work and Architecture. Her father was an artist who provided her with endless quality drawing materials. Johanna Kindvall grew up in Southern Sweden with a mother who is a tailor and treated the rest of the family with baked goods every Friday. She and Johanna worked together on the first one as well – a book about food and bikes called The Culinary Cyclist. She tries to post a new recipe every week. She runs an online food journal called Foodie Underground which is dedicated to real food for real people. She went full-time freelance a little over two years ago, and writes a lot about food, coffee, travel and bikes. ![]() In her words, “a degree for making up your own professional life plans.” After college she taught English in Guadeloupe and then moved back to Portland and started working at a magazine, then eventually co-founded a digital marketing agency. She has a BA in International Affairs and French from a small liberal arts school. Most cookbooks that center around the tradition of fika are written in Swedish and so I’m thrilled about this new book which is a collaboration between Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall. I reached out to both Anna and Johanna to chat about FIKA: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break.Īnna Brones is a freelance journalist and author, originally hailing from the Pacific Northwest, where she grew up in a yellow house in the woods with her Swedish mother and American father. Similar to observing afternoon tea in the United Kingdom with an assortment of scones, biscuits, and mini sandwiches, observing fika is accompanied with a slew of fresh, baked goods collectively known as fikabröd. Pronounced “fee-ka”, the tradition of fika is a cultural institution and is widely translated into taking a break ( fikarast) from work to socialize over cups of coffee. There are three essential words every traveler to Stockholm needs to learn: Hej (hello), Tack (thanks), and Fika. | Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Johanna Kindvall Reprinted with permission from Fika, by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall, copyright © 2015, published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
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