Article: How Swede it is: A Christmas celebration that's equal parts food and fun.(Features)(Homefront)

The Christmas season in Sweden is a six-week-long extravaganza, beginning in late November with the first Sunday in Advent and ending Jan. 13, Knut's Day, when the Christmas tree is ceremoniously removed. But the culinary high point is Dec. 24, when family and friends gather around the Julbord, the Christmas smorgasbord, for the most lavish meal of the year.

Traveling across the Atlantic to spend the holiday in the Swedish countryside with my husband's brother, Thomas Rosenberg, and his wife, Kerstin, I imagined a modern version of the Christmas Eve scene in Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander": the house festively decorated and illuminated by candlelight, ...

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