December is here and with it the by the Swiss much loved Vorwiehnachtsziit (lit. pre-Christmas time). During this Vorwienachtsziit I’d like to introduce you to some traditional, food-related Swiss Christmas things. First up is Andrew Bond, a musician who’s dearly loved by Swiss children and adults alike. He makes children’s songs but they’re so good […]
Swiss Food Topics
Swiss Christmas: The Manual
Trying to figure out the subtleties of Christmas traditions in a foreign country can be tricky – while you can see all the food and other things that are on display in the shops, knowing what people actually do at home is not always easy to figure out. Here’s our Swiss Christmas manual! One. Adventskranz […]
Swiss Agriculture Photo Competition
Agrimage is the name of a photo competition run by the Swiss Farmers’ Association. The competition where both professional and amateur photographers could take part ended in July this year. More than 1’600 Photographers submitted 15’000 photos about Swiss farming. The best photos can be viewed on the Agrimage website.
8 Facts About Swiss Sugar
It’s autumn and the start of the three months long sugar production season. Here are eight facts about Swiss sugar you might not have known, and there’s also a chance to win one of two beautiful Aarberg sugar tins to store your caster sugar! One. Swiss sugar is produced from sugar beets grown in Switzerland. […]
Swiss Apple Day (Tag Des Apfels)
Today is the yearly Tag des Apfels (apple day) in Switzerland, and it’s a special one this year as it’s the 25th time apple day is celebrated on the third Friday in September. For a quarter of a century, apple producers and many helpers have handed out thousands of kilograms of free apples each year […]
All Swiss Tarts At A Glance
Friday is Wähentag (tart day) in Switzerland. It’s not that common anymore these days with people’s modern eating habits but you can still find lots of bakeries across Switzerland advertising Friday as Wähentag, often selling an impressive variation of sweet and salty tarts – usually large ones cut into 10-15 individually sold slices. The origin […]
Ovomaltine, a tin of Swiss history
‘Mit Ovomaltine chasches nöd besser, aber länger’ (lit. ‘With Ovomaltine you can’t do it better, but longer’) is a tagline every Swiss is familiar with. It is, in fact, the most famous of all product taglines in Switzerland acording to the Swiss market research study of the year 2014. Another famous one is ‘Häsch Dini […]
9 Swiss Autumn Ideas
One thing I love about living in Switzerland is that the four seasons are very defined; summer is hot, winter is very cold, and then there is the much awaited spring after the cold and foggy winter, and the much cooler autumn after the hot summer. When I was younger I lived the seasons so […]
Landdienst: a Swiss tradition
For the generations of my grand-parents, parents and myself who was born in the late 1970ies, Landdienst was an expression every teenager knew. For most of today’s teenagers, this word probably doesn’t mean anything anymore. Landdienst (lit. agriculture service) means working on a farm for a few weeks, preferrably in spring or autumn when most […]
The Veg Cooperative: The Summer Harvest
It’s summer and the vegetable season is in full swing. April was mostly early produce such as carrots, beetroot, last year’s potatoes, radish and Swiss chard. While we got told May would bring lots of exciting spring produce, this rather small range of varieties continued until early June and eventually the weekly batches became quite […]