Can you see a culture’s cravings in a recipe. Can you see the symbol of Icelandic Culture in a single serving of Vinarterta? The secret isn’t found in a recipe or a piece of cake. Treasured food experiences that shape our cultural identity are not founded in recipes, ingredients or methods. Why and how a […]
Do you know how to create great Future Memories of Thanksgiving, Jól and Christmas? Memories hold a great deal of power over us. When we remember the good ones, we experience the positive high of wonderful feeling as if they had just occurred. The less good memories do the same and make us feel negative […]
What makes home one that you would never want to leave? Likely your answer has a lot to do with how your Mother, Amma or Grandmother created a culture of family around you through experiences. For me, home is not a place. Home is a feeling. Home is where they understand you. My Amma Anna […]
We have Two Cosy Changes for Christmas Vinarterta Because you care about what’s in your Vinarterta, and because you want more than just any Vinarterta. Here’s where you can buy your Vinarterta for Christmas, Holidays, and Special Celebrations! Nothing is more delightful than baking for you and hearing your stories and experiences. Thank you! Order […]
Gleðilegt sumar! Happy summer! You’ve survived the long hard winter once again and now it’s summer according to the Icelandic calendar. Warm days are tickets to happiness on our mothership móðir jórð (mother earth). As she moves us through this viral time reminiscent of 1876 and 1918 we are humbled and ever hopeful that we […]
Here’s a Vinarterta Tribe Tactic. A little light-heartedness for you today. Tertavaccine, n.: – a cake designed to detect fears of viruses and inactivate them. When an evolving pandemic is upfront in the news perhaps overcoming fear is one of the greatest moves a person can make. Fear is caused by not knowing. Fear stops […]
(Made ya look!) Order Vinarterta Cake Delivery! There are no squirrels in Iceland. So the joke of startling someone, usually a pet, into action (by saying ‘Squirrel’) when a Squirrel appears may not work there. It definitely works at our house. There’s still lots of snow on the ground and there are lots of squirrels […]
Becoming Vinarterta, the pure love and pioneer spirit of the North American Icelandic heart took time. “It takes a long time to fully become who you are.” says Björk. Vinarterta is still in the process of becoming. We are honoured to be a part of the becoming of Vinarterta in our generation. Much love […]
It’s Jón Sigurðsson Birthday on June 17, Iceland National Day. The Anniversary of Þjóðhátiðardagurinn will be celebrated by Icelanders everywhere. Jón Sigurðsson was the pioneer of the independence movement in the nineteenth century and the Republic of Iceland was established in 1944, on his birthday. It is a perfect time to express our appreciation and […]
Vinarterta is Seven! Did you know that our Vinarterta venture was launched on June 6, 2012? To expand in love and pioneer spirit through sharing the cultural and culinary experience of Vinarterta The Delicious Striped Icelandic Cake™ To keep the cake really good. (And perhaps to retire as the Vinarterta plum fairy.) I had objectives, […]