Astrid’s Summer Table: Recipes for a Swedish Summer/Sommaren är min – Astrid Lindgrens sommarkokbok

Astrid Lindgren’s writings and notebooks brim with iconic scenes of summertime magic, and food is nearly always centre-stage – think of the coffee party when little Ida is hoisted up the flagpole, the Melkersons’ welcome dinner on Seacrow Island, Mardie’s treetop picnic, or the children of Noisy Village sipping cordial. Astrid’s Summer Table: Recipes for a Swedish Summer is a chronological summer cookbook that journeys from Walpurgis Night to the harvest festival, with chapters devoted to the last day of  school, Midsummer, and the classic Swedish *kafferep* (coffee-and-cake gathering).

We visit both the realm of Astrid’s stories and her own summers in Småland’s Näs and Furusund in the Roslagen archipelago. Her outlook on nature, people and life is always suffused with hope, and that spirit shines especially brightly in her summer writings. This book celebrates that very sense of wonder – with stories, memories and flavours to savour all summer long.