Is everything nowadays ”google-ish”? Recipes can be googled, so what’s the point of making a book of recipes? Or is it so? After years working with pupils and students I earned some perspectives.

I belong to the pen- and- paper- generation, and most folks at my age tend to think that young people can find everything on the internet. Truly – simple questions floating on the surface of the water – wow – like a cormorant or a cod – they’ll catch the bait in a hundredth of a second. Analysis, on the other hand, requires a strategy and accurate knowledge. About what knowledge can be found, where to find it, how to classify it, how to verify it, how to judge the quality of it, and how to use it as part of the investigation towards an answer of a question of your own, or somebody else’s question. You have to know to get to know more. You have to get into the water to learn how to dive. Internet is not helping if you don’t know that you’ll have to plan, make a strategy, and find both cyber-alliances and flesh-alliances. You have to know how to use your brain. Takes time and skills.

And that’s the point with this book which is gathering knowledge that are not instantly ”google-ish”. Like the book’s recipes – like the stories – like the photos – and the graphic cut. All together the book herself tells her own story. Why did somebody find it necessary to make a book about clipfish? What kind of a statement is it about our time? How is that gossiping about us to future historians?

This book is defending herself and her life on her own in the world of books, by being unique – having her own voice – and her own offers for future generations. She is giving you details on how to deal with clipfish, the environment, with history – and she takes you in to graphic works which has this peculiar way of whispering very loud. Not saying a word, yet being able to make huge statements. Somebody said somewhere sometime that the book was dying. No – it’s not!