Swedish cuisine is known around the world for its Swedish meatballs, crayfish parties and smorgasbord lunches, but there’s one traditional delicacy that rarely makes it beyond the country’s border.

When people think of Sweden, they tend to picture pop icons like ABBA, flat-pack furniture from IKEA or storybook characters like Pippi Longstocking. Swedish food, however, rarely inspires the same ...

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It’s the end of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, which means the season of a certain fermented fish delicacy is over. While Swedish food doesn’t quite capture international attention, surströmming — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. can of surströmming - Paul Barron/Shutterstock There are some foods that really stink — literally. Meanwhile, some of these fetid ...

The woman who vowed she'd taste anything, arthropods included, plans to draw the line at surströmming, fermented herring from northern Sweden with an aroma so pungent the locals compare it to "gas ...

More than a decade ago, NPR's Ari Shapiro attempted to eat a fermented Swedish herring called surströmming, one of the most pungent foods in the world. It did not go well. Twelve years later, on a ...

image: It has been called the smelliest food in the world. But surströmming -- Swedish for 'sour herring' -- is beloved in Sweden as a summer treat. In this video, Reactions explains the chemistry of ...

The surströmming season is back, and with it, a battle of taste buds. Ex-Londoner, Paul Connolly, and Skellefteå native, Akvelina Bergsten, share their vastly different opinions on the rather smelly ...

No matter where you go in the world, chances are you’ll find some local dish or delicacy that is inexorably tied to its home turf. But many of these regional foods are so unique to their location that ...