Food production ethics and animal welfare are high on the agenda. The farm-to-table movement is also very popular in Sweden. Its fine-dining tasting menus are prepared with ingredients sourced from nearby forests, meadows, lakes and farms. Sustainable gardening at the Koster islands. A large amount of Swedish restaurants are increasing the amount of locally produced and green dishes on their menu in order to become more environmentally friendly. As the climate crisis deepens, many people are striving for more sustainable dietary habits with zero waste.
His menu features plant-based items using seasonal produce, with the option to add a meat-based side dish.
Mussel shells are ground to make plates and old wine bottles are sent to artisans to make glasses and vases. The Swedish classic pyttipanna is a one skillet fry-up that uses leftover food such as meat, potato, onion and whatever else might be hiding in the fridge. Skip to main content Our other websites:. I accept cookies No, thanks. Where to go. What to do. Where to stay. Swedish cuisine used to be deficient in fresh vegetables and fruits, and relied heavily on canned goods, but this is no longer true.
Potatoes are the staff of life, but fresh salads also pepper the cuisine landscape, especially in big cities. The calorie-laden Swedish pastry -- the mainstay of the konditori cafeteria -- is tempting and fatal to weight-watchers.
Drinks -- Kaffe coffee is the universal drink in Sweden, although tea taken straight and milk also are popular. The water is perfectly safe to drink all over Sweden. Those who want a reprieve from alcohol might find the fruit-flavored Pommac a good soft-drink beverage, but Coca-Cola is ubiquitous.
The state monopoly, Systembolaget, controls the sale of alcoholic beverages. Licensed restaurants may sell alcohol after noon only 1pm on Sun. Schnapps, or aquavit, served icy cold, is a superb Swedish drink, often used to accompany smorgasbord. The run-of-the-mill Swedish beer pilsner has only a small amount of alcohol.
Swedes enjoy jogging, hiking, birdwatching, fishing, hunting, boating, and orienteering, which is a cross-country race requiring participants to use a map and compass to navigate an unfamiliar course.
Soccer, tennis, golf, swimming, skiing, skating, ice hockey, and bandy—a game believed to be ice hockey's prototype—are important sports. Other popular recreational activities include watching television, socializing, reading, and going to the cinema. Many people enjoy making handicrafts and singing in choirs.
Customs Click here to go back Marriage and Family Many people choose to live together rather than get married. Eating Swedes today are generally health conscious and aware of the nutritional content of what they eat, although young people also enjoy fast food, which is increasingly available.
Socializing Swedes usually shake hands upon meeting. Recreation Swedes greatly enjoy the outdoors, and many own or have access to summer cottages for weekends or vacations. Open-face shrimp sandwiches are everywhere, piled high with varying degrees of art. It even boasts its own festival in the village of Alfta. Cans of it make excellent souvenirs, as long as you wrap them well to avoid the truly nightmarish possibility of a leak into your suitcase.
The prevalence of preserved grub harks back to a time when Swedes had little choice but to store their spring and summer harvests for the long, icy winter. Wild game features strongly in Swedish cuisine, particularly in the northern part of the country. Traditional Sami cooking relies heavily on reindeer, whether cured, dried, roasted or preserved as sausage or jerky. Elk and moose are also fairly common. Particularly in Sami cooking, game is often served with rich sauces that incorporate wild berries.
Other northern specialities include ripa ptarmigan and Arctic char, a cousin of salmon and trout. The mild-flavoured char makes a seasonal appearance on menus all over Sweden in summer, and is absolutely worth a try, especially for the various inventive methods of preparing it. A chefs' favourite, the sturdy fish is a blank canvas that can handle all kinds of interesting treatments. Speaking of berries, another uniquely Scandinavian taste is that of the hjortron cloudberry. These grow in the marshes of Norrland and look a bit like pale raspberries, but their flavour is almost other-worldly, and Swedes consider them a delicacy.
If they strike your fancy, you'll find any number of places selling jars of cloudberry jam to take home. There's also a sweet hjortron liqueur. Pea soup and pancakes are traditionally served on Thursday.
Seafood staples include caviar, gravad or rimmad lax cured salmon , and the ubiquitous sill herring , eaten smoked, fried or pickled and often accompanied by Scandi trimmings such as capers, mustard and onion. Tucking into a plate of freshly fried Baltic herring with new potatoes and lingonberry sauce from an outdoor table overlooking the sea is a quintessential — and easily achieved — Swedish experience.
Swedes are devoted to their daily coffee ritual, fika, which inevitably also includes a pastry — often kanelbullar cinnamon buns or kardemummabullar cardamom rolls.
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