I love experiencing a culture through the food so I am excited to bring a few of my new favorites home from Sweden to share with my family over the holiday. Here are a few of the items I am bringing:
Cardamum pepparkakor (gingersnaps).
Kryddost cheese (yummy cheese filled with caraway + cloves).
Organic vanilla + cardamum sugar from Rosendals.
Cardamum knäckebröd.
Raspberry + rhubarb marmalade.
Gudbrandsdalen (a Norwegian cheese).
Chokladfabrik truffles (check out the packaging! so cute!).
White Pepper and cardamom chocolate.
Wish I could bring back some of the saffron tomato creme fraiche but it obviously wouldn't travel well!
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The snacks, and quirky foods, thats the stuff i always miss too....sigh
Posted by: chelsea | November 24, 2009 at 07:41 AM
i love how food represents a culture so well. i love spanish food, because my grandparents are spanish and it's a way to experience their culture.
Posted by: Helen | November 24, 2009 at 08:07 AM
No limpa? And the American Knackebrod just won't measure up for you now!
Posted by: mjb | November 24, 2009 at 08:12 AM
No caviar in a tube? :)
If you get a chance, I'd also grab some saft in a wonderful Swedish flavor (I know they sell lingonberry and cloudberry at Ikea, so something like psalmberry). You could also go for jams and such. And smultron! Oh smultron!
Posted by: Bridget | November 24, 2009 at 08:12 AM
thanks for the tips mjb + bridget!
Posted by: chelsea | November 24, 2009 at 09:57 AM
Cardamom must be a Swedish staple, I'd never had it in food other than curry before I discovered Swedish cardamom buns. delicious!
Posted by: Peonies and Polaroids | November 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM
White pepper and cardamom chocolate - amazing. I recently had an ancho pepper and dark chocolate bar. That heat and the cream of the chocolate are such a beautiful blend.
Wish I could have been invited to the "inappropriate" Harold and Maude/The Graduate party;-)
Posted by: TheCluelessCrafter | November 24, 2009 at 11:25 AM
You've really embraced all things Swedish :-) I've got to admit, I'm partial to kryddost. I can eat it until my tummy hurts.
Posted by: Vanessa | November 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Hej!
They've got the Anna's gingersnap cookies at IKEA for only .99 AND they have a bunch of different flavors. YUM!
Posted by: Amber Johnstun | November 24, 2009 at 04:51 PM
My Swedish stepfather has introduced all of us to pepparkakor and knackebrod, neither of which I knew how to spell until now. So much fun.
Posted by: LPC | November 25, 2009 at 01:01 PM
so cute! I used to always stop at this "Scandia Cafe" in Salt Lake City and get little food items imported from there, so fun...even the mints were in adorable little boxes.
Posted by: lindsay sadler | November 29, 2009 at 02:17 PM
We made choklad biskvier this weekend which are a homemade treat- maybe I should blog it sometime :)
Posted by: mjb | November 30, 2009 at 10:46 AM
This list makes me smile.
Posted by: Polarn O. Pyret | December 01, 2009 at 07:01 AM