Jansson's Temptation (1964)

Jan Ivarsson TransEdit jan.ivarsson at TRANSEDIT.ST
Fri Feb 7 14:32:58 UTC 2003


It is hardly the "national dish", but quite popular.
A mixture of potato strips, anchovies, onions and cream, baked in the oven.
The dish exists since the 1840s, but the name is usually thought to be taken from a very popular silent movie from 1928 bearing that title - in the film Jansson is a man.
Jan Ivarsson

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>    Mrs. Jansson?
>    A national dish of Sweden, this was popularized by the Swedish Pavilion during the 1964 New York World's Fair.  Not in OED or Merriam-Webster.
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>    14 August 1964, NEW YORK TIMES, "Dining at the Fair" by Craig Claiborne, pg. 31:
>    With minor reservations, that pavilion's smorgasbord cannot be faulted from fish to frestelse (Jansson's Temptation), but of all the foods the herring is extraordinary.
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