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An illustrated lifestyle cookbook on the Swedish tradition of fika--a twice-daily coffee break--including recipes for traditional baked goods, information and anecdotes about Swedish coffee culture, and the roots and modern incarnations of this cherished custom.
Sweden is one of the worlds top coffee consuming nations, and the twice-daily social coffee break known as fika is a cherished custom. Fika can be had alone or in groups, indoors or outdoors, while traveling or at home. A time to take a rest from work and chat with friends or colleagues over a cup and a sweet treat, fika reflects the Swedish ideal of slowing down to appreciate lifes small joys. In this adorable illustrated cookbook, Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall share nearly fifty classic recipes from their motherlandfrom cinnamon buns and ginger snaps to rhubarb cordial and rye breadallowing all of us to enjoy this charming tradition regardless of where we live

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Text copyright 2015 by Anna Brones Illustrations copyright 2015 by Johanna - photo 1
Text copyright 2015 by Anna Brones Illustrations copyright 2015 by Johanna - photo 2

Text copyright 2015 by Anna Brones
Illustrations copyright 2015 by Johanna Kindvall

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brones, Anna, author.
Fika : the art of the Swedish coffee break, with recipes for pastries, breads, and other treats / Anna Brones.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Cooking, Swedish. 2. Snack foodsSweden. 3. Rest periodsSweden. I. Title.
TX722.S8B76 2015
641.59485dc23
2014034412

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60774-586-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60774-587-7

Recipes adapted and developed by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall

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INTRODUCTION what is fika Why is it that Swedish coffee is just kaffe but - photo 3
INTRODUCTION what is fika Why is it that Swedish coffee is just kaffe but - photo 4
INTRODUCTION
what is fika?

Why is it that Swedish coffee is just kaffe , but coffee plus something to eat is fika ? In Sweden the tradition of fika (pronounced fee-ka) is as common as breakfast; something almost everyone does at least once a day. It factors into travel planning, work schedules, and even a relaxed weekend at home. Life without fika is unthinkable.

Functioning as both a verb and a noun, the concept of fika is simple. It is the moment that you take a break, often with a cup of coffee, but alternatively with tea, and find a baked good to pair with it. You can do it alone, you can do it with friends. You can do it at home, in a park, or at work. But the essential thing is that you do it, that you make time to take a break: thats what fika is all about.

At its core, fika means to drink coffee. But the meaning goes much deeper. Fika represents an entire culture; it carries as much meaning for Swedish social engagements as it does for food customs. Fika is as indicative of a love of coffee as it is of a belief in maintaining tradition.

Its uncertain exactly when the fika tradition started, but the use of the word was noted as early as 1913. Using a form of slang, the two syllables of the Swedish word for coffeekaffewere reversed, resulting in a word pronounced fka, eventually evolving into todays commonly used fika.

To have a real fika means using the classic recipes that everyone knows (what the Swedes call klassiker ), either those from one of the Swedish cooking bibles like Sju Sorters Kakor ( Seven Kinds of Cookies ) or Vr Kokbok ( Our Cookbook ) or those passed down from one generation to the next. These classics are the baked goods so synonymous with fika that you can barely talk about coffee without getting an urge for one of them: cinnamon buns, the apple-rich fyriskaka , or even an open-face sandwich. They are the base recipes; the kind of culinary creations that many Swedes know by heart.

Eating is often emotional. It invokes a sentiment; we eat to celebrate, we eat to mourn. Separating food from how we feel about it is essentially impossible. Fika is the same; theres a personal and emotional connection to it, no matter which recipe you choose. A cup of coffee and a piece of chocolaty kladdkaka , for example, feels comforting. It is, in its own way, grounding. Baking it in turn is a reassuring act, making you feel safe, sound, and taken care ofa staple in which you know exactly what youre getting.

Whether theyre consumed at a caf or baked at home, each recipe in this book creates its own ambience, a feeling or an emotion, that is attached to the food itself. Kladdkaka is what you throw together when youre pulling an all-nighter in college, or when you have a friend coming over to discuss their latest love interest, or even cry about the last one. Semlor you only have in late winter and early spring, when the streets are still dark and cold and the warm lights of a good caf are inviting. Biskvier you get at a nicer, more traditional caf, or bake up for a special affair. It invokes something fancier, something worth celebrating.

Thats why fika is special; it fits into so many moments and seasons. You select what you eat for fika depending on what atmosphere youre trying to create: one dish is perfect to celebrate a birthday, another might be better simply to have with afternoon coffee by yourself. After all, fika is just as good a reason for catching up with an old friend as it is for hosting a Christmas party. Fika can be done anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.

Although it may be well meaning, Do you want to meet up and grab coffee? in English just doesnt carry the same weight as the corresponding Swedish question, Ska vi fika? Should we fika? is shorter, simpler; and every Swede knows exactly what it means: Lets take a break, spend some time together, slow down. In fact, it doesnt even have to insinuate coffee; fika is all-inclusive and can be done just as well with a pot of tea or a pitcher of fruit cordial. Fika isnt just for having an afternoon pick-me-up; its for appreciating slow living.

Therefore, its not just because you bake a certain cake and serve a cup of coffee that you have fika. To truly fika requires a commitment to making time for a break in your day, the creation of a magical moment in the midst of the routine and the mundane. Fika is the time when everything else is put on hold. This book is intended to inspire you to do just that.

the importance of homemade fika

We both have Swedish backgrounds and thus have had the concept of fika ingrained in us from the beginning. As is typical in Swedish culture, both of our mothers regularly had something in the oven, be it a cake to welcome friends coming for fika or their own bread for afternoon sandwiches. While neither of us is a professional baker, we have both baked a lot from an early age. Through the years we have baked the classics and developed a few of our own recipes, and now were collecting them all in this book.

SWEDISH WORDS INSPIRED BY FIKA
fik a place to have fika
fikapaus taking a break to have fika
fikarast a specific time in the day for having fika, like in a workplace
fikastund the moment you have fika
fikarum a break room, often with a kitchen, that is intended to be used for fika
fikastlle a place to have fika
fikasugen to have a fika craving
en kopp fika a cup of coffee

For us, baking from scratch is simply the norm. We cant trace all of this to our roots, but theres something about baking and cooking with whole ingredients that feels inherently European: the appreciation for simple, good ingredients. You would be hard pressed to find any boxed baking mixes in a Swedish pantry.

The root of this book lies in the desire to make your own, and if you dont make your own, its the desire to eat well: the feeling that when you cant bake your own cinnamon rolls for fika, you know a good local bakery that can. Extraordinary baked goods come about not only because the bakers know what theyre doing but also because they are artists, paying close attention to the ingredients and materials they use. They are crafting a work of art with passion and soul.

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