Lagom: The Swedish Art of Eating Harmoniously

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Lagom: n. just the right amount, balanced, harmonious. This beautiful, fresh cookbook offers genuine insight into how Swedes eat and cook - with recipes that fit around the seasons, occasions, times of day, and appetite. Eating and cooking in tune with 'lagom' means embracing food that is good for body and soul, unfussy, delicious and sustaining, and all in harmony. The Swedes understand that balance is everything - that you crave comforting food when a bitter wind is howling outside, that refreshing, lighter meals suit hot, hazy days, that a mid-morning bun is good for morale, and that a long, sociable lunch with friends and family on a Sunday is the most rewarding way to end the weekend.

Steffi Knowles-Dellner is a Swedish food stylist, cookery writer and blogger who has lived and worked in Stockholm, Brussels, New York, Florence and the UK. Her blog, Always So Hungry, was recently highlighted as one of the UK's top food blogs by The Sunday Times Magazine and shortlisted for the Good Housekeeping Food Award in 2015. She develops recipes for several Scandinavian brands, teaches Nordic cooking classes and is often interviewed about Scandinavian food in the press and on the radio.

This cookbook is beautiful and offers insight into how Swedes eat and cook - with recipes that fit around the seasons, occasions, times of day and appetite. Balance is everything, and this book illustrates that there is a time and place for every kind of food. -Jean Chen Smith, USA Today