Þorrablót (Chicago, IL)
Sat, Feb 29
|Swedish American Museum
Annual Þorrablót sponsored by Icelandic Association of Chicago.
Time & Location
Feb 29, 2020, 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM CST
Swedish American Museum, 5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, USA
About the Event
þorrablót == February 29th, 2020
6 PM – 12:00 AM
Swedish American Museum at 5211 N. Clark St; Chicago, IL 60640
We’re ready and open for business! The party starts at 6 P.M., where you’ll be greeted with a welcome drink, homemade gravlax, double smoked leg of lamb, Brennivin, and rotten shark.
The Swedish American Museum is one magical place, thanks to you, and thanks to Hermann Arason, Hemmi Boy, who’ll be back with his guitar leading the room in song and dance, and, thanks to Master Chef Ari Hallgrímsson who’ll be in charge of the food and ready to answer all your questions about Icelandic traditions, old or new.
On the dinner table you’ll find standards such as pickled rams’ testicles, sheared sheep heads, dried haddock, blood pudding, liver pudding, hangikjöt, rye and flat bread, and other delicacies you’ve been craving… For dessert we’ll have a traditional ‘Kaffihlaðborð’ with pönnukökur, kleinur,…