At Swedish festival,Delhiites to get a taste of Nobel dinner

“There is no Swedish restaurant in Delhi or anywhere else in India. The food festival is an opportunity for people to try out the cuisine,” the Ambassador of Sweden,Lars Olof Lindgren,said. “India’s links with Sweden go back a long time.”

In the 1960s,the first Swedish companies were established in India,and Delhi has the highest number of Swedish companies.

The Nobel dinner in Sweden is a famous event where the menu is a secret until the day of the dinner. Chefs will be preparing four dishes from last year’s dinner menu for the Memorial Week.

“We eat a lot of fish like herrings,” he said. “It’s more salty,but delicious.”

The cuisine incorporates a lot of international influences on top of Swedish basics like game and fish. “During the food festival at Taj Mansingh,we will substitute game with lamb because we can’t fly in the veal,” Lindgren said.

The food festival will be inaugurated at Taj Mansingh. The Nobel ceremonial dinner,that is broadcast live in almost a dozen countries,has a menu full of gourmet specialities prepared by 40 chefs who are at it for more than three days. The Nobel dinner will be hosted at Taj Mansingh in the city on November 6.

By taking the festival to other cities,Sweden hopes to partner with India on a range of initiatives,providing its technological expertise and also help with innovations in dealing with the country’s growing environment problems,the ambassador said. Lectures,seminars,cultural programmes and a quiz are part of the event,which is in its third edition.

Seminars,lectures and cultural activities are all strung together by the common thread of creativity and innovation. “Sweden has a lot to offer. We can support India in many ways and we too need India,” Lindgren said.