Sunday, October 31, 2010

Swedish stamps

Four nice new Swedish stamps with a culinary theme: polkagris (a typical Swedish candy cane striped red and white from the city of Gränna), gravad lax (so famous it contributed its name to the vocabulary of the world), surströmming (a lot less famous, thank god!, because this dish consists of traditional and utterly disgusting Northern-Swedish fermented herring) and spettekaka (a Southern-Swedish egg cake). I put them on my blog partly because of the funny choice of subject, and partly because I really like the original artwork of Stina Wirsen.

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