EAT FINLAND, The cookbook for all Finnish embassy kitchens. Published 2018. Author: Viola Minerva Virtamo, Heli Thoré.
Eat Finland explores the best flavours and ideas of modern Finnish cuisine. Combining appetizing photos by Viola Minerva Virtamo, stories by Heli Thorén and recipes by Finnish chefs, the book is a mouth-watering journey through the...
The great importance of the meal cannot be underestimated or overlooked in official contexts when people meet. The meal has many dimensions and one of them is the meeting between people and meals.
Every year on 9 october the Finnish-Swedish Food Culture Day is celebrated. The Finnish-Swedish Food Culture Day was established on the initiative of the Martha Association and has been celebrated annually since 1992 on 9 October. The intention of the day is to preserve and develop and draw attention to the unique Finnish-Swedish food traditions.
On September 4, Finnish food is celebrated. What is defining Finnish food and Finnish food culture. On that question, there are certainly as many answers as there are Finnish citizens, but with scientific glasses on the nose, the answer can be a little bit easier to formulate.
Exactly where the meatball originally comes from is not known for sure, but history shows that in the Middle Ages, meatballs were offered at the court of Richard the II in England and cookbooks from Baghdad of the time contained flavored meatball recipes. Travelers of that time ate and drank from the food cultures of other countries and in turn...
July 20 is the time to celebrate the International Raw milk pancake Day.
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Every year on June 4, Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim's birthday and the Finnish Armed Forces' Flag Festival are celebrated in honour of the independent Finnish defence. The birthday of Finland's wartime marshal and later president Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, June 4, has marked the day of the flag festival ever since the 1950 and is celebrated at all...
April 4th we celebrate International Carrot Day!
In 2017, when Finland celebrated its 100th anniversary, rye bread was appointed to be Finland's national dish. Since that day, Finnish food culture, in which rye bread has a strong symbolic value, has also been celebrated on the Kalevala Day, 28 February, the day of Finnish culture.
A Finnish meal is nothing without rye bread, and rye...