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Photographs by Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times Simon Idsoe, chef at the Royal Embassy of Norway, has a variety of ingredients at hand to prepare his culinary delights. He learned to cook in his Norwegian grandmother’s kitchen and went on to elegant restaurants in France before ending up in a gleaming kitchen on Washington’s Embassy Row.
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Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg answers questions in Oslo on Monday Aug. 13, 2012, about the findings of the inquiry into the July 22, 2011, attacks that killed 77 people. (AP Photo/Anette Karlsen, NTB Scanpix)
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Alexandra Bech Gjoerv (left), leader of the government-appointed independent commission, speaks Aug.13, 2012, during a press conference in Oslo about investigation into the July 22, 2011 attacks in Norway. (Associated Press/Berit Roald/NTB scanpix)
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On the first anniversary of Norway’s worst peacetime massacre, two people Sunday lay down flowers outside the government building in Olso damaged in the bombing by an anti-Musilm killer. Norway’s commitment to face xenophobia with tolerance is being put to the test by hostile reactions to an influx of Gypsies. (Associated Press)
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Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her Norwegian counterpart, Jens Stoltenberg (center), are ferried to Norway’s Utoeya island, where confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik last year gunned down his victims in a summer camp for members of the Labor Youth League. Norway on Sunday honored the 77 victims killed in the massacre. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Psychiatric experts Synne Soerheim (center) and Torgeir Husby (right) are questioned June 16, 2012, in an Oslo court by judges and lawyers during the trial of Anders Behring Breivik (left), the self-confessed killer of 77 people in Norway in 2011. (Associated Press/NTB scanpix)
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a press conference with Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo, Friday, June 15, 2012. Suu Kyi formally accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday June 16, 2012, in the Norwegian capital. (AP Photo / Vegard Groett / NTB scanpix)
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Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik gestures April 18, 2012, upon his arrival at a courtroom in Oslo, Norway. Breivik is accused of detonating a bomb in July 2011 outside government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight people, then driving to a nearby resort island and massacring 69 others at a summer youth camp run by the governing Labor Party. (Associated Press/Scanpix Norway)
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**FILE** Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who confessed to a bombing and mass shooting that killed 77 people on July 22, 2011, gestures as he arrives for a detention hearing at a court in Oslo, Norway, on Feb. 6, 2012. (Associated Press/Scanpix Norway)
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left), the U.N.-Arab League special envoy to Syria, poses with Maj. Gen. Robert Mood of Norway before a meeting at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Gen. Mood is heading a planning team for a possible deployment of a U.N. supervision and monitoring mission in Syria. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, awaits the arrival of Maj. Gen. Robert Mood from Norway at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Gen. Mood will lead a team to negotiate the possible deployment of U.N. monitors for any cease-fire between Syrian troops and rebel forces. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
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Smoke rises from the Norwegian cruise ship MS Nordlys, shown docked in Alesund, Norway, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. A fire that broke out in the engine room killed two crew members, but all 207 passengers were taken to safety. (AP Photo/Scanpix)
