Finnish Foodways

Where in the world

• Finland territory

Communities and languages

Languages: Finnish

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• related to Swedish Foodways documented

  Long-documented exchange; Finnish cuisine is Nordic and is not Scandinavian.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• related to Danish Foodways possible

  ⚠ NORDIC BUT NOT SCANDINAVIAN. The relationship is institutional and regional rather than close culinary kinship.

• related to Kräftskiva — the Crayfish Party documented

  The crayfish party is kept in Finland as rapujuhlat on the same seasonal logic.

• related to Kven Foodways documented

  Kven Finnish descends from the Finnish of the migrants and is a recognised minority language of Norway in its own right.

• related to Norrbotten and Tornedalen Foodways documented

  The Torne valley is one food region across a border drawn in 1809; Meänkieli is recognised in Sweden and Kven in Norway.

• related to Northwest Russian Foodways documented
• related to Norwegian Foodways documented

  Through the Kven communities of the north and the long border. ⚠ FINLAND IS NORDIC AND NOT SCANDINAVIAN.

• related to Russian North Foodways documented
• related to Swedish Finn Foodways documented
• related to Swedish Foodways documented

  Finland was part of Sweden until 1809; Finnish is a Swedish minority language and Swedish an official language of Finland. The kitchens overlap heavily. ⚠ FINLAND IS NORDIC AND NOT SCANDINAVIAN.

• related to Swedish-speaking Finland — the relationship documented
• related to Sámi Foodways documented

Recipes

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