They’re watching "Donald Duck". Perhaps the most loved and sacred Swedish Christmas tradition, Donald Duck, or "Kalle Anka" as the Swedes call him, is the name given to a 1950s Disney special ...

Sweden has some charming Christmas traditions. For example, it’s customary to serve a Christmas Eve buffet of traditional foods including risgrynsgröt, a rice pudding flavoured with cinnamon.

Sweden has one of the highest numbers of official holidays in Europe. Today there are 13 official public holidays in Sweden, and despite being a largely secular country, nine have their history in ...

and Julmarknad (Swedish Christmas Market Day) every December. Both festivals serve traditional Swedish cuisine, such as korv, rice pudding, pickled beets, pickled herring, yellow peas and Jansson ...

When I told people I was traveling to Sweden, one of the first things they invariably mentioned was fika. This refers to the tradition to having coffee and a pastry. The difference between fika ...

Christmas is here and the Nordic traditions have begun. The primary denomination of the Nordic countries has been Lutheran, so the church traditions are very much a part of the season’s ...

In Sweden, children will leave out coffee for ... Japanese Christmas food traditions Christmas isn't a public holiday in Japan and as such isn't a particularly big celebration.

At the Swedish Christmas dinner of the Thule Lodge, Susan Sipos, lodge chairwoman, set a display of a Swedish table with Swedish items. FALCONER – Members of the Thule Lodge recently held their ...