About the Book
A Swedish Kitchen: Recipes and Reminiscences is the story of an American woman’s 25 year love affair with the land, people and cuisine of this Nordic nation. Sharing her love of food and cooking, Judith Pierce Rosenberg leads readers to markets in search of wild strawberries and smoked reindeer and to cafés for a cup of strong Swedish coffee and a kanelbulle (cinnamon bun) or a mazarin (iced almond tart). Among her culinary adventures are dinner at a wilderness lodge, a medieval banquet and a Christmas smorgasbord with all the trimmings.
Throughout this culinary memoir, Judith interweaves the historical and cultural of Swedish cooking, explaining the history of waffles and the traditions behind Saint Lucia Day. A Swedish Kitchen includes 80 recipes highlighting traditional Swedish flavors and ingredients, such as red currants, cloudberries and cardamom. The recipes are designed for use in the American kitchen, enabling readers to easily prepare such Swedish favorites as rabarbersoppa (rhubarb soup), jordgubbstårta (strawberry cake), and Janssons frestelse (Jansson’s Temptation).
About The Author
On her first trip to Sweden in 1978, Judith Pierce Rosenberg fell in love with the country, its people, landscapes, and cuisine. To share that love, she established this website as a forum for those interested in Swedish cuisine and wrote A Swedish Kitchen: Recipes and Reminiscences (Hippocrene Books, 2004), a memoir of her culinary explorations and adventures with her Swedish friends and family, now available on Kindle.
She is also the author of My Year of Hepatitis C: A Journey Towards Hope (Amazon, 2018) and A Question of Balance: Artists and Writers on Motherhood (Papier-Mache Press, 1995), profiling 25 women sculptors, painters, poets, and novelists on how they combine work and family and how their mothering impacts their art. As a freelance journalist, Judith has written for the food sections of The Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor, as well as producing articles on a wide range of topics for periodicals ranging from Highlights for Children to Middle East Magazine and Publishers Weekly.
The mother of two adult children and grandmother to two, Judith lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
