Pippi lives on …
The American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia (www.americanswedish.org) is organizing a new exhibition, “Do You Know Pippi Longstocking,” to open at the end of March. The Swedish American Museum in Chicago (www.swedishamericanmuseuom.org) will host a “Pancakes with Pippi” on March 8 where, among other things you will learn how to make pancakes Pippi-style, serve and eat them. (The actual International Pancake Day is a bit earlier, coinciding with Semlans Dag, Fettisdagen or Shrove Tuesday on March 4 (turn back to last week’s issue for the recipe).
Speaking of pancakes, not from Pippi but from my own family’s origin—the region and island of Gotland in the middle of the Baltic. These days it’s become an active food island, with many farmers, artisanal producers, specialty food shops, restaurants and cafés. What I remember is always lamb, fish and a Gotland specialty, the saffron oven pancake. Turn to page 9 for the recipe. /Ulf
The saffron oven pancake is a specialty of Gotland, Sweden’s largest island and also the largest island in the Baltic Sea. Image from “Wonderful Sweden” - book published by ICA Förlaget in Sweden. Recipe (in print and elsewhere) and images by permission of the publisher. Photo: Bruno Ehrs
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The Editor & Publisher
Inte som andra bloggar.... this entry will be sometimes in Swedish, sometimes 'på svenska' - Just så händelsrikt är livet som utgivare av Amerikas äldsta och numera enda Svenska tidskrift.
Här ovan poserar jag “on location” kl 6 på morgonen i Minneapolis St. Paul för två år sedan. Henrik Olund tog bilden som förberedelse för en porträttbild av Vice President Walter Mondale. (Det var en bra intervju med en bra person) Jag skriver sällan med byline i Nordstjernan men jag är alltid ansvarig för innehållet, även om jag inte alltid håller med om allt.
(PS. Intervjun med Mondale hittar ni på nordicreach.com DS.) |