Neeps and tattie salad: boil some chopped, peeled swede in salted water and after 10 minutes, add a handful of new potatoes, skin on but halved.
A massive cash injection and the hiring of lavishly paid foreigners like Zlatan Ibrahimovic (a Swede of Bosnian descent) and Thiago Silva (a Brazilian) have propelled PSG into the super-league.
In essence, they are all democratic, protestant, pro-UN, anglophile and pragmatic; they also have an Atlanticist streak, partly because of huge emigration a century ago (every Swede or Norwegian has an uncle in America).
He made his mark in the Balkans in the 1990s as a member of the western "contact group" (then chaired by a Briton, David Owen) and later as deputy to the "high representative" in Bosnia, Carl Bildt, a Swede.
Seymour "Swede" Levov appears a quintessential American success: grandson of Jewish immigrants, star high-school athlete and prosperous owner of the family glove factory in Newark, civic-minded in his public life, kind and tolerant in private.
The two decades from 1970 were a period of decline: the country was demoted from being the world's fourth-richest in 1970 to 14th-richest in 1993, when the average Swede was poorer than the average Briton or Italian.
Seymour "Swede" Levov mourns the skills that were lost when he moved all his production offshore: the art of table-cutting, the twists and turns where finger crotches were sewed.
What you get instead is a kind of Mirror Universe version of the Chamber of Commerce, a politically powerful institution interested in maximizing the income growth of the median Swede rather than the median Swedish CEO.I think this is a plausible broad-strokes picture.
Ibrahimovic and Verratti made a chance which forced Marc-André ter Stegen to save from the Swede with 10 minutes left.
But the Swede was proud of the way Wawrinka kept his calm, hit his one-handed backhand with real authority, stuck to his aggressive game and battled his way through to his second slam final.
The genial Swede has known Murray for several years and believes he can make that small percentage of difference to bring him more grand slam titles.
