Piedmont

Given that today is “Lucia” in Sweden, I had Italy on my mind more than usual. After racing around the lake in -14 degrees, I decided to make a ridiculously unseasonable dish with asparagus, roasted pepper pesto, halloumi cheese and cashew nuts – a good match for the green grape arneis which is quite widely grown in Piedmont.

In Stockholm, the attempts to form a new government are again stalling. The few policy debates that I have listened to are equally frustrating and marked by a profound lack of theoretical analysis and sense of direction. Not that I would necessarily do it any better myself, in fact, I guess I would just quickly alienate basically everyone...