My base is in Stockholm, Sweden but I have lived in both the US. and Italy. I love Italina cusine and American sweets! I work alot and live by myself so I always have a bunch of leftovers in the fridge! Desserts!!!!! I love bakeing and make cookies and cakes for my work all the time. Christmas start early in Sweden. Advent starts 4 weeks before Christmas Eve and from that day it is all about cooking, bakeing, drinking and eating. I love it! I did an internship at a fairly large company and at the end of my stat there I baked a chocolate pavolova which everyone loved. 80 people asked me for the recipe and I had to send a big massemail to everyone at the company with it. I've had plenty! But that is how you learned. I remember makeing salmon on saltbed (Swedish recipe) just that all the salt ended up ON the salmon instead of under it. Everyone ate to be polite but my sister said the other day (4 years later) that it really tasted horrible.