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SMÖRGÅSBORD EVENT – JANUARY

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Smörgåsbord tasting at OTWAY – Thursday, January 18

On this special evening, chef Clair Welle & the rest of the lovely team at Otway will, together with me, offer a special 5 course Smörgåsbord tasting addition to their regular menu. On the menu will also be my Open Faced Burger – which we in Sweden call Parisare (the Parisian). It’s a Swedish retro classic made simply with a beef & pickled beet pattie on toasted sourdough bread topped with a sunny side egg!
Signed books will be available at a special price!

Make sure to get a seat by booking your table here!

time: 5.30pm to 10.30pm
address: Otway, 930 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY
subway: C to Clinton Washington
phone (917) 909-1889

Otway was recently announced as one of the best new restaurants in 2017 by New Yorker and Village Voiceand their Uni Crepe was listed by the NYTIMESAnd their Yeast Semifreddo with Huckleberry & Rye is magnificent!

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Smörgås baking class at Archestratus – Wednesday, January 24

Want to learn how to make Danish Rye Bread from scratch? Now’s your chance!
On this special evening at Archestratus you will also learn how to make stove top fresh cheese, chicken salad with curry, and intense horseradish fish salad with quick pickles.

Beer & a signed copy of Smörgåsbord are included in the ticket price ($80)! The meal will also include a few extra condiments from my book and something to bring home to share with your loved ones. It will be a hands-on cooking experience as well as a tasty meal with some new friends. Looking forward to cook with you!
Looking forward to bake and cook with you!

Get your ticket here.

time: 7pm to 9.30pm
address: Archestratus Books + Foods, Greenpoint, 160 Huron Street, Brooklyn
subway: G to Greenpoint Ave.

Archestratus is one of my favorite places here in Brooklyn. It’s a cookbook shop that also offers delicious Sicilian baked goods, coffee, tea, beer, & wine. And it’s also a space for classes, talks, book clubs, and more. And I love Paige’s arancini (Sicilian rice balls)!

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Smörgåsbord – Art of Swedish Breads and Savory Treats,
Ten Speed Press 2017

Food52 – How to Get Your Smörgås On 

read more about the Smörgåsbord book here

find more events here

Smörgåsbord in NPR

Smörgåsbord review by Tara’s Multicultural Table

 

 

Glöggmingel with Madame Fromage

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It’s getting cold out there so it’s time to cook comforting stews, soups with dark rye bread or have tea with cookies crawled up on the sofa. Another combo that works is to host a Fika & Cheese party with glögg. And this is exactly what Tenaya Darlington aka Madame Fromage I did in Philly the other day.

I arrived by bus with loaves of rye bread,  thin crisps with caraway seeds and ginger cookies while Tenaya unwrapped incredibly luscious cheeses that I had been dreaming of for weeks (and still do). Together we fired up some spicy glögg (image above) just before our guests filled the kitchen/ living room with joyful cheese & baking conversations while we were munching away.  One of our guests, cheesemaker Sue Miller from Birchrun Hill Farm came with some of their ‘mind blowing’ blue cheeses. Another guest, Marisa McClellan from Food in Jars brought pickled kohlrabi and honey-sweetened jam that matched our cheese & fika board beautifully.

In Sweden we would call this kind of party glöggmingel (mingle with mulled wine), a party that often is held in December prior to Christmas.

Want to host a party like this? Then you should continue reading about the party over at Madame Fromage’s blog. Tenaya brings you behind the scenes and reveals how to successfully host a party like this.

I especially want to thank Tenaya and Todd for having me in your kitchen. It was wonderful to finally meet you in person. And thanks to everyone who came and made this event into an inspiring and fun party.

Cheers!

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related links

Fika – The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall
Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese: A Guide to Wedges, Recipes, and Pairings by Tenaya Darlington (I love this book!!!)
Glögg – Swedish Mulled Wine
Lussekatter recipe by Anna Brones with illustrated shapes by me
Pepparkakor (ginger cookies) by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall at Ecosalon
Knäckebröd (thin crisps) with wild fennel – baked in Sicily
Fika & Cheese Party (original invitation)

Fika Book Events in June – London and Göteborg

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Our book tour and celebration of Fika continues to London and Gothenburg, Sweden…

Fika London – Wednesday June 3

Come chat with me while having fika. I will be there with Fika books. On the menu they have kladdkaka (chocolate sticky cake), Swedish Pancakes and Cinnamon Buns. And more!
Looking forward to meet you all.
Address: 161 Brick Lane, London
Time: June 3, btw 5-7pm.
More about the event on Fika London’s facebook event page.

Nordicana 2015, London – Saturday & Sunday June 6 & 7

On Saturday and Sunday, I will be talking food at Nordicana – Nordic Noir festival in London together with Anna Brones and Brontë Aurell (Scandinavian Kitchen) with moderator Signe Skaimsgard Johansen.  It’s on the panel “Honest cooking: the simple art of Scandinavian food”. Anna and I will also be there with Fika books.
Time:  Saturday June 6 @ 2pm and Sunday June 7 @ 2.15.
Get your ticket here.

Viktor’s Kaffe, Göteborg- June 14

Our first Fika event in the land of fika will be at Viktors Kaffe in Gothenburg. I’m extra happy as I lived five years in Gothenburg while I studied architecture at HDK.
Time:  in the evening  of Sunday June 14 from 5pm.
Address: Geijersgatan 7, close to Götaplatsen.
Both Anna and I will be there, with books while having fika. So if you are in town come by and say hello. We looking forward to meet you.
More about Viktors Kaffe  here.

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At the end of May I went to Boston to share some fika with everyone at America’s Test Kitchen. I had a great time and it was hard to leave so I ceriously considered hiding under the table in their impressive cookbook library. On this trip I also visited Google, but just because it was a good excuse to have a 10 o’clock fika with friends.