ScandiKitchen (Scandi) Christmas: Recipes and Traditions from Scandinavia by Christiane Bellstedt Myers
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Overview: The first Christmas at ScandiKitchen, over a decade ago, was a revelation to my husband Jonas and I. We didn’t quite appreciate what it meant to run a café and shop that could provide all the foods that our fellow Scandinavians in London were missing. The emotional impact it had on our customers was overwhelming. To have people standing in our little shop with tears in their eyes because they couldn’t make it back home and to help them enjoy their foods and traditions was a humbling experience then, and every Christmas since. No matter where you’re from, when the call of home pulls at your heartstrings, only something genuine can help to relieve the ache. Food reconnects us in the form of scents, tastes and deep memories of years gone by. In one bite, you’re back home – even if only for a brief moment.
To help a Norwegian recreate the cookies her grandmother used to make, to give a Dane the right sort of cherry sauce, to present a Swede with a bottle of glögg – Jonas and I feel so privileged to help Scandinavian families far away from home and to teach people how to incorporate new foods into their own Christmas meal, and over the years I’ve written down numerous instructions for cooking our festive dishes.
By the First Sunday of Advent we’re ready not only to provide relief from homesickness, but also to teach anyone who will listen about the joy we Scandinavians find in Christmas. It may be dark and bitterly cold outside, but our hearts are some of the warmest you’ll ever find. Our homes are lit by candles, we offer home-baked goods and spiced wines to everyone, and we let people into our usually reserved personal worlds. Everything in Scandinavia starts to smell of cinnamon and ginger, and we long for any sign of snowflakes to make us huddle up even more in our cocoons of Christmas hygge. Scandinavians embrace this season with such authenticity that I think people from elsewhere find it hard not to be swept along.
Scandinavia is so very big, and our food culture varied, so there are aspects I simply couldn’t include in this book or it would stretch to several volumes. I have tried to balance tradition with a few new things, and hope you find inspiration to create a taste of Scandinavian Christmas.
Genre: Non-fiction > Food & Drink
This book was written by candlelight in my warm kitchen, with a never-ending scent of spice and festive music playing in the background, and the recipes were all tasted by the people I love. This is the book I hope my daughters will one day give to their grandchildren to show them how we did Christmas when they were Scandinavian kids growing up in London.
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