Jerry and I attended a wedding in Germany recently and stopped in a grocery store to buy a card and wrapping paper. We were in a bit of a hurry, but I managed to scoot to the baking aisle, and, lo and behold, there it was…

Antler salt, in small packets. On the same shelf as the yeast, flour, and sugar. So Swedes aren’t the only folks to bake with antler salt. Germans do too. We bought three packets.

Last month, I received nice comments about Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, a relative of Jerry’s, and the foster mother of Nils Holgersson.

Selma wanted to adopt Nils; but, as a single woman, she was not allowed. It bothered her.

And she did not only save the young Nils Holgersson. She also rescued Nelly Sachs, born in 1891 in Berlin, Germany, an only c

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