If you don't know it already, I love going out for coffee. Wiling away an afternoon at Caffe ArtJava on Av. du Mont-Royal in Montreal is my idea of a little piece of heaven. And lo and behold, the Swedes have taken this tradition and made it one better. They've added cake.
Going out for fika ("fee-kuh")—afternoon coffee and cake—is a beloved tradition in Sweden. They enjoy it so much they've made it into a verb. They fika with colleagues, they fika with friends, they even fika at the 7-11 (not classy, I know). In the season leading up to Lent, and particularly on Shrove Tuesday, they fika with semla, a cream puff flavored with cardamom and almonds.
Many kinds of creams and puffs are commonly seen in Stockholm.
Actually, Swedish women are far from being cream puffs, but more on that later. Now, I'm off for Friday afternoon fika!
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Fika (or the best afternoon tradition... ever)
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Seems like a great tradition! And yet, in English, somehow sounds a little...dirty. "Fika with friends".
Thanks for sending me the blog link. Hope you keep it updated, 'cause I'd love to read more of your Swedish adventures (teat-ed soap dispensers and all!)
Steven H
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