Suomi Home Bakery reviewed in the Daily Beast

A very nice review of the famed-in-the-Copper-Country Suomi Home Bakery is appearing on the Daily Beast. Surprising, but fun to see.

Excerpt: A hi-def blue sky gleams over the northernmost reaches of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on the autumn day when we first step into Suomi Home Bakery and Restaurant by the Keweenaw Waterway. At first we can’t pinpoint why the room tone sounds so incongruous. Only after several minutes do we realize that cross-table conversations among customers and waitresses in the spacious dining area are not being carried on in an obscure Scandinavian language, but actually are being spoken in English. Breakfasters are conversing in the dialect known as Yooper, a term derived from the initials U.P., which stand for Upper Peninsula. 

The whole article is online here.

Source: The Daily Beast
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