Paris. Bologna. San Sebastian. Rome. What do these places all have in common? They’re a few of the European cities to which food and drink lovers flock. While each offers plenty in the way of other ...

I had a 36-hour layover in Helsinki, Finland's capital city, on the way to Rovaniemi in Lapland. It wasn’t nearly enough time to properly explore this charming, walkable port city on the Baltic Sea.

Helsinki has a lively and high-quality food culture that is still not fully recognized internationally. Helsinki has a lively and high-quality food culture that is still not fully recognized ...

Finland's hippest music festival gets underway in Helsinki this week, with dozens of acts and tens of thousands of spectators arriving for the annual extravaganza that is Flow Festival. The breadth of ...

"Varokaa lokkeja," warns the sign, down where the city's prime strolling street meets the harbor. Beware of the seagulls. They're flapping and yawping above Market Square, greedily eyeing the salmon, ...

The University of Helsinki is taking over the coordination of Helsinki Hub, a European business accelerator in food innovation. The accelerator brings together Europe’s leading food tech startups and ...

Ask a discerning Finn why the world isn’t racing to Helsinki to eat, as it has to Copenhagen and Stockholm, and his gut reaction is to blame himself. “We’re incredibly modest,” says Sasu Laukkonen, ...

Fabio Tuccillo will defend his doctoral thesis entitled “On the flavor of faba bean ingredients – Consumer acceptance, sensory perception, food application, and identification of potential flavor ...

Finland in the Fall can sometimes feel like an ugly step-sister, wedged between the twin beauties of glorious lazy sunny summer days and luminous bright winter snowscapes. It's true the vast tracts of ...

Blanketed in taiga forest, speckled with a thousand lakes, ringed with rocky islands, Finland is a wilderness landscape rich in contrasts. Yet in the recent past, Finnish chefs looked outward instead ...