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Jamie Oliver does Stockholm

In May this year, Jamie Oliver went to Stockholm to try out the Swedish cuisine.

In the first part Jamie visits an indoor food market, makes Gravad lax and after riding a speed boat through the Stockholm archipelago he ends up in the forest to pick blueberries and mushrooms.

In part two we get to see more coffee and cakes, and when Jamie bakes blueberry buns it’s easy to understand why Swedes love their fika.

After experiencing fermented herring in the third part of the program Jamie tries out the food at a Swedish canteen together with the Royal guards.

In the fourth and last part of the program, Jamie fishes for crayfish and get to experience a real Swedish crayfish party, hats and singing – the whole shebang!

Here you find Jamies recipes and at Sweden.se we have all the recipes you need to make the Swedish culinary classics.

Crossover cuisine??

At the Swedish institute where we all work, there’s a guy (he wants to remain unnamed) who brings the most peculiar lunches. Yesterday, he took it to new heights with this crossover attempt, combining canned skärgårdssill – herring served in a sour cream sauce with roe, about as Swedish as it gets - with whole grain pasta.  Jamie Oliver was in Stockholm last week, wish he had dropped by to teach this dude some do’s and dont’s.

Skärgårdssill, which normal Swedes eat during Midsummer’s Eve, is actually very tasty, though you probably wouldn’t have guessed it by looking at this corrupted mess…

/Oliver