2004-03-16
Cheers to St. Urho: "Patron saint of Finland has his day, too -- right before St. Patrick's... 'It's really just a MYTH -- in capital letters, ha ha,' says Ottawa's Ida Capern, born in Finland ... We latched on to this goofy thing four years ago, when we started a St. Urho festival at the Arrow and the Loon in the Glebe' in Ottawa, Canada."
Mike Hendriks writes in the Kansas City Star that 'Whereas St. Patrick allegedly drove the snakes from Ireland, what St. Urho did was rid Finland of locusts by shouting “Heinasirkka, heinasirkka, menetaalta hiiteen.” Which is Finnish for “grasshopper, grasshopper, go away!”'
Clearly Finland, Canada and Minnesota share a terrific talent to fire imaginations in the cause of late winter parties! Nice choice of Finnish recipes included in the original [Ottawa Citizen, Canada - Mar 10, 2004] article. Too bad its not online anymore, but there are lots more good recipes at the Canadian Friends of Finland. Lots of background on St. Urho by Googling Urho Minnesota. The University of Toronto Finnish Club has "The St. Urho Legend as of March 18, 1995: A Semi-Humorous Finnish Critique, by Prof. B. Vahamaki."
Mike Hendriks writes in the Kansas City Star that 'Whereas St. Patrick allegedly drove the snakes from Ireland, what St. Urho did was rid Finland of locusts by shouting “Heinasirkka, heinasirkka, menetaalta hiiteen.” Which is Finnish for “grasshopper, grasshopper, go away!”'
Clearly Finland, Canada and Minnesota share a terrific talent to fire imaginations in the cause of late winter parties! Nice choice of Finnish recipes included in the original [Ottawa Citizen, Canada - Mar 10, 2004] article. Too bad its not online anymore, but there are lots more good recipes at the Canadian Friends of Finland. Lots of background on St. Urho by Googling Urho Minnesota. The University of Toronto Finnish Club has "The St. Urho Legend as of March 18, 1995: A Semi-Humorous Finnish Critique, by Prof. B. Vahamaki."
