The ultimate Christmas decoration to me isn’t a Christmas tree but a gingerbread house. I remember listening outside the kitchen as a child while my mother swore and burned herself on the caramel used to put the house together.
Under a fat August moon you’ll find Swedes gathering with hats, bibs and glasses of snaps in hand, ready to devour this year’s early harvest of crayfish. Now also available in Edinburgh. Hurrah!