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event: crayfish party
august 17
crayfish party
A successful Crayfish Party needs three components:
good food, good drinks and good company. All those
components were included when we hosted our annual
Crayfish Party in collaboration with the American
Swedish Historical Museum on August 17.
For days, the Museum were hard at work preparing
the food for the party—this year they even cooked the
(live!) crayfish themselves! During the beautiful (and
H O T!) summer night—spent in the museum’s party
tent overlooking the lush greenery of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Park—the guests got to feast on crayfish,
meatballs, cheese pie, dill potatoes, beet roots and more,
accompanied by the mandatory schnapps and singing
of silly drinking songs. The night was rounded off with
a delicious strawberry cake and some nice and chilling
lingonberry ice water.
crayfish party — origins:
The Crayfish Party is a 100-year-old Swedish
tradition, and came about due to risk of over-
fishing. In the early 1900’s, river crayfishing was
restricted to only a couple of months, starting in
August, and crayfish thus became an exclusive
delicacy. To celebrate the much anticipated
crayfish season, as well as marking the end of the
summer, people started gathering for crayfish
feasts all through the land. To this day, it’s one of
Sweden’s most beloved traditions.
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It was a great evening, and we’re already looking forward
to the next Crayfish Party!
Thank you to our sponsors!
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