Posted by Mindy Lvoff Our loyal reader and regular commenter, Patricio Wise, wanted to import our Skål Project to Mexico. In order to truly uphold the spirit of the Skål Project, Patricio knew that your average, everyday bottle of Aquavit just would not do – he needed a bottle of Cooking Issues Aquavit. Yet how [...]
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WANTED: Celebrity Skåls
July 8th, 2009 · 20 Comments · skoal
Posted by Mindy Lvoff We’re adding a new page to our Skål Project: our WANTED List. It’s a list of celebrities that we want… no, NEED to come in and skål. At the top of our Skål Wish List sits none other than Max von Sydow… The reward? Your own personal bottle of Cooking Issues [...]
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Skåls of the Week, 7.3.2009
July 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · skoal
(Hey, what is this Skål Project anyway?) Happy 4th of July weekend! We hope you are celebrating this weekend with friends and family. And since you’re already together and celebrating, why not teach them how to skål? To kick off the weekend right, we decided to finally crack into our vault of chef skåls for [...]
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A quick note: it's Skål or Skoal, but not Skal
June 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · skoal
Posted by Mindy Lvoff Sorry for the confusion, everyone! We have been honoring the true Swedish spelling of the word skål, using an “a” with a small “o” sitting above it. This has caused some questions as to whether it’s skoal or skal. The definitive answer: “skoal” is acceptable, but using “skal” is not the [...]
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Skåls of the Week, 6.21.2009
June 21st, 2009 · 12 Comments · skoal
posted by Dave Arnold (Hey, what is this Skoal Project anyway?) Happy Father’s Day! Unfortunately, we don’t have any father/son skål shots (except this one) so we decided to do a food media extravaganza instead. First, for a master of all media: Now, for the real power behind food tv: In the land of print [...]
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What's in a skoal?
June 15th, 2009 · 17 Comments · skoal
Posted by Mindy Nguyen We’ve “skåled” a lot of people over the past four months. After explaining the history of the Skoal Project and the significance of the great Max von Sydow (can you believe that there are people out there who still haven’t heard about this?), we set them on their mark and let [...]
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Skåls of the week 6.14.09
June 14th, 2009 · No Comments · skoal
If you don’t know about the skoal project click: here. So, you’ve seen Regis skåling at the Food Inc. Premier party last week; but how about this: Christine Baranski. Famed actress of stage and screen. One hell of a skåler. And this: And this: And one of our own: BTW. We currently have a backlog [...]
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We Interrupt This Blog to Bring You Regis Philbin.
June 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · skoal
Posted by Dave Arnold Well, The FCI hosted a movie premiere party last night for the new documentary “Food, Inc.” The students cooked for the glitterati. It was a great success. Of course, we had to skål these guys. We will post more on Friday, but for now we’ll leave it at this: I spent a [...]
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Skåls of the week 6.05.09
June 6th, 2009 · 6 Comments · skoal
Today we are posting our first ever mortal enemy skål smackdown. Our friend Dave Chang is well known for having beef with certain individuals. Here is Chang and his public enemy number one, the blogger Josh Ozersky. To go with the hate we are posting some love. Here are the significant others of the Cooking [...]
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The Skål Takeover
May 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · skoal
Posted by Sophie Brickman I’d been up to my elbows, literally, in duck fat all morning, preparing for a skål party to take place the next day. What, you ask, is a skål party? It is based on an ancient Swedish custom wherein individuals from all walks of life gather to enjoy food, and take [...]
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