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Swedish Food Trade History

Historical period

The Hanseatic control of Baltic grain, salt and herring; Visby and the Gotland trade; salt from Lüneburg and Setúbal for the fisheries; the Swedish East India Company at Gothenburg from 1731, which brought tea, porcelain and spices and made the city rich; the brief Swedish colonies of New Sweden on the Delaware and SAINT-BARTHÉLEMY in the Caribbean from 1784 to 1878, where Sweden held a slave-trading port at Gustavia; and 19th and 20th century grain, coffee and sugar imports. ⚠ THE COLONIAL HISTORY IS RECORDED, NOT OMITTED.

Atlas — where and when

What is recorded

  • Sweden held the Caribbean island of Saint-Barthélemy from 1784 to 1878, with a slave-trading port at Gustavia, and briefly the New Sweden colony on the Delaware. Sugar, coffee, tea and spices reached the Swedish kitchen through early modern colonial and company trade. That history is recorded rather than omitted. documented
  • Sweden holds Saint-Barthélemy in the Caribbean, with a slave-trading port at Gustavia. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Caribbean documented

    Sweden held Saint-Barthélemy from 1784 to 1878, with a slave-trading port at Gustavia.

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