Tumble Swede Pop-Up Restaurant
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Celebrating the Scandinavian Cuisine of the Pacific Northwest. TumbleSwede celebrates New Nordic cuisine from the Pacific Northwest. We believe that regional food tradition here can be found in the kitchens and gardens of our Scandinavian founders.
Washington State was settled heavily by Swedish, Danish and Norwegian pioneers, who brought their own complex food traditions and cultures to a new land, but quickly adapted them to the ingredients they found in this area. As the generations moved along, food traditions like foraging for seasonal forest produce, hunting, fishing and preserving foods for the winter became ingrained and second nature to anyone living outside of the cities.
So what defines Nordic cuisine? Typically it finds flavor in its techniques instead of spices. Depth and complexity comes from just-picked produce in the summer and from the smoking, pickling, and fermenting that kept foods through the winter.
This isn't your grandmother's cliché 1950's food, ergo we don't serve meatballs or pancakes. Instead, it's fresh, vibrant, modern, uniquely American, clearly Scandinavian and unmistakably Northwest.
To anyone (like us) who grew up with a Skagit Valley grandmother who kept a large vegetable garden and fruit trees; Arlington families that made a trip each autumn to gather mushrooms in the forested foothills of the Cascades; Poulsbo fathers who went fishing in the afternoon to catch that evening's dinner; Spring Sundays spent picking sweet new strawberries or Autumn Saturdays spent canning the garden's bounty...
We remember too. We hope you enjoy it!
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