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My skål shot finally went up on the French Culinary Institute's blog Cooking Issues. It's part of Dave Arnold and Nils Norén's Skoal/Skål Project. I'm in good company. Cheers!...

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7 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, May 26, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Tagged: alcohol, aquavit, cheers, drinking, French Culinary Institute, skål, skoal, toasts

How to Skoal with Style and Grace

Alan Richman, "GQ" magazine food writer. Visiting Sweden? Hope to impress a Swede? Just want to appear worldly and stylish? The French Culinary Institute's Cooking Issues blog has been posting an ongoing series of photos it calls the Skål!/Skoal! Project that can school you in one small social custom. The series includes such food-world luminaries as Jeffrey Steingarten, Harold McGee, Wylie Dufresne, and Alan Richman (above), who has perhaps the most extreme skål to date. More pix after the jump....

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9 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, May 20, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Tagged: Alan Richman, alcohol, aquavit, cheers, drinking, etiquette, French Culinary Institute, Harold McGee, how-tos, Jeffrey Steingarten, Max von Sydow, skål, skoal, Sweden, toasts