 |
| 1998: Horticulture |
This cover illustration with the the word Jordbruk (Horticulture) shows a jar of pickled cucumbers and a jar of some sort of apple preserve I know not what. The stamps show apple cheeked Ålanders picking the crops
The relatively mild winters, late springs and long mild autumns mean that the Åland Islands are perfect places for apple growing
 |
| 2011: Apples |
and they grow many varieties, a large proportion being exported to Finland. The Strömma apple shown takes its name from the village where Ålander Fridolf Sundberg first grew this variety.
 |
| 2005: Europa - Gastronomy |
Being Scandinavian there has to be fish gleaming on a plate as imagined by the artist Juha Pykälainen. I'm a bit short on stamps featuring food so I'll pad this post out with a postcard
of the Great Yarmouth Fish Wharf Post Office and postal van in 1937. The home port at this time of a massive Herring Fleet which last sailed in the 1950s and coincidentally also the place the first frozen fish fingers were manufactured ( invented by he American Clarence Birdseye) in 1955. Having had a stamp meal of fish, pickled cucumbers and perhaps then some Åland pancakes with apple preserve maybe we could finish with a piece of fruit. This will have to be imported
 |
| c1926 Definitive - Orange Tree |
from sunny South Africa.
