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...
Johan Ludvig Runeberg was born on 5 February 1804 into a Swedish-speaking family in Jakobstad, Finland on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia, while Finland still belonged to Sweden.
Food is not just about cooking it or eating it, it's about creating relationships with food that make us feel safe and can enjoy it, it's about discovering with a childlike curiosity the small nuances and moments in the wonderfulness of food, it's about embarking on a journey where the eyes are your guide, your nose is the tourist, the...
Jean Sibelius genom musiken och maten
Ett gastronomiskt porträtt över Finlands största kompositör