February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Aquavit":
Lifestyle: 19 Aug 11
Gobbling crayfish is a 500 year old tradition in Sweden but the annual August crayfish parties can be a minefield for a first-timer. Contributor Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius advises on how to slurp like a native.
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Lifestyle: 16 Aug 11
If you thought that Swedes' excellent English excused you from learning Swedish, think again. But learning Swedish needn't be daunting, with courses offering total immersion by staying in the teacher's home.
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Lifestyle: 23 Dec 10
Jellied pigs’ feet, Donald Duck and a goat-riding gnome may not be your typical global Christmas symbols, but for Swedes they’re all part of the fun, writes Jennifer Heape.
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Travel: 30 Jul 10
AFP's Francois Campredon savours a bygone era on vintage Stockholm steamer S/S Storskär, which is over 100 years old, as it cruises through the archipelago and the Baltic Sea for an annual summer steamship parade.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Dec 09
Does the herring lead us into Jansson's temptation or is it the other way around? Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius has the lowdown on how to prevent your office julbord from ending in yuletide tears.
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Lifestyle: 18 Jun 09
What's on in Sweden: Morrissey & Midsummer fun in Stockholm; AC/DC & Euro 2009 U-21 football in Gothenburg; Yasmina Reza's ART in Malmö.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 May 09
While pondering the remembrance of things past, Jeanne Rudbeck decides she'd much rather sip a latte in the city than flee Stockholm for Nature with the rest of the population.
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Society: 8 Apr 09
Actor Mikael Nyqvist and comedian Petra Mede are the number one Easter drinking partners of choice, according to a survey polling 1,000 men and women about the Swedish celebrity with whom they would most like to sip snaps.
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Society: 26 Nov 08
Swedish chef Marcus Samuelsson, founder of New York’s acclaimed Aquavit restaurant, is among those being tipped as possible candidates to prepare meals for Barack Obama at the White House.
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Lifestyle: 23 Aug 08
Every year on the third Thursday in August, Swedes gather with friends and family to celebrate the start of the season for fermented Baltic herring, or surströmming as it is called in Swedish. AFP's Pauline Conradsson was there to share in the fun.
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Lifestyle: 5 Feb 08
Charlotte West has had a snoop around the new Clarion Hotel Sign, which opens its doors to the public this week.
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Travel: 29 Jun 07
Jeanne Rudbeck goes in search of an endangered Swedish species: the classic smörgåsbord. She finds it being well cared for by another great Swedish institution.
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Lifestyle: 24 Jun 07
Move over ABBA, Stockholm's best-kept musical secret and local hit is the diplomatic corps, a group of emissaries from around the globe who meet regularly to sing Swedish folk songs.
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Lifestyle: 22 Sep 06
It's one of the hardest Swedish culinary traditions for foreigners – and many Swedes – to understand: the annual fest of surströmming.
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Lifestyle: 25 Aug 06
There is more to Swedish beer than mass-produced lager. Eddie de Oliveira reports that a new wave of microbreweries are in danger of giving Swedish beer a good name.
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Lifestyle: 4 Jul 06
There is nothing more quintessentially Swedish than the nation's love of singing, and nothing symbolizes this love more perfectly than Allsång på Skansen, the summer song fest that has run since 1935. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius explains.
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National: 23 Jun 06
It could be a crazy weekend on Sweden's roads. Last year, 11 people died in car accidents during the Midsummer holiday, and there were 32 crashes in the Stockholm area alone.
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Lifestyle: 21 Jun 06
Forget June 6th – Sweden's real national day is Midsummer's Eve, and you'd be hard pressed to find a Swede not dreaming of a red cottage, a lake (and a mildly suggestive Maypole).
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Lifestyle: 21 Dec 05
Don't miss The Local's Tricky Christmas Quiz!
Swedes know how to make the most out of Christmas – not least by stretching it to the middle of January. Today, Jul is a jolly mix of pagan and Christian traditions combined with a good dose of commercialism.
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National: 13 May 05
One of the strangest Swedish delicacies could be a lot harder to find this year. “Rotten herring”, or surströmming, could be affected by a catastrophic decline in catches.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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