midsummer
Get Drunk and Take Your Clothes Off for Finnish Midsummer
Beer, potatoes, and herring in the land of the midnight sun.
This Reclusive Sea Urchin Diver Throws a Great Dinner Party
Roddie Sloane lives in Norway, harvesting sea urchins and clams by hand for some of the world’s best chefs. I went along to his recent Midsummer dinner, held at St. John Maltby in London.
The Broadly Guide to Celebrating the Summer Solstice
Today is the day the sun sits directly above the Tropic of Cancer, appearing to stand still as the longest day of the year rolls out over the sky. Get your herbs ready, witches!
I Fell Under the Drunken Spell of Midsummer's Pagan Magic
The old pagan sun-worshiping festival known as Midsummer is often plagued by bad weather in Sweden, but we make up for it by eating a smorgasbord and drinking enough aquavit to forget the songs we sing dancing around a pole.
Swedish Midsummer Is the Only Time You’ll See Your Grandparents Drunk
Midsummer in Sweden is our biggest holiday. There are cakes and pastries and strawberries. And lots of drinking. We drink a lot of snaps, which is like gin, but without the juniper berries.
A Brazen Strawberry Heist Just Ruined Scandinavian Midsummer
Sweden was already facing a potential strawberry shortage this season, and then some strawberry-thieving assholes decided to wreck everyone's midsommar by stealing what was left.
