The Good Food podcast
In this episode, we sit down with Michelin-starred chef Niklas, who takes us on a journey from his childhood in rural northern Sweden — raised near the country’s largest ski resort on the Norwegian border — to running a fire-only restaurant in Stockholm.
Niklas shares how growing up among the Sami indigenous community shaped his cooking philosophy, why he refuses to use chocolate, lemon, or olive oil in his Stockholm kitchen and how his mother’s approach to buying 50 kilos of plums at the right price still influences his restaurant today. We dig into the art of Swedish preservation – pickling, fermenting, and jamming everything from asparagus to cloudberries — and why Niklas believes our obsession with “fresh at all costs” is a little bit mad.
Bonus episode
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A Private Blog Network (PBN) is a collection of websites that are controlled by a single individual or organization and used primarily to build backlinks to a “money site” in order to influence its ranking in search engines such as Google. The core idea behind a PBN is based on the importance of backlinks in Google’s ranking algorithm. Since Google views backlinks as signals of authority and trust, some website owners attempt to artificially create these signals through a controlled network of sites.
In a typical PBN setup, the owner acquires expired or aged domains that already have existing authority, backlinks, and history. These domains are rebuilt with new content and hosted separately, often using different IP addresses, hosting providers, themes, and ownership details to make them appear unrelated. Within the content published on these sites, links are strategically placed that point to the main website the owner wants to rank higher. By doing this, the owner attempts to pass link equity (also known as “link juice”) from the PBN sites to the target website.
The purpose of a PBN is to give the impression that the target website is naturally earning links from multiple independent sources. If done effectively, this can temporarily improve keyword rankings, increase organic visibility, and drive more traffic from search results.
