International Guest Lecture: The Swedish Christmas Smorgasbord Saturday, December 2, Noon to 1:00 p.m. Location: Johnson Heritage Post Richard Tellström, American Swedish Institute Food Historian-in-Residence, Malmberg Fellow and acclaimed Swedish food writer and historian from Stockholm University will share Swedish traditions about the Christmas meal and Christmas smorgasbord, and reveal dishes that must be part of it and how they might be cooked. He will also give some example of the New Nordic Cuisine, a contemporary food ideas which picks up the older food traditions but also add new flavours and cooking techniques to the old one, in a special purpose to let the Scandinavian and Nordic nature, forests and waters become more apparent.