The essential companion to a Swedish dinner party: Everything you need to know to navigate safely through social functions in Sweden or Swedish America. Customs and traditions change over time but there are some things you should know if you ever plan to join a Swedish dinner party. Singer or not, these are occasions when ev-eryone makes his or her voice heard. When, what, who, how and why-to toast, to sing and to truly blend in. This book introduces you to the Swedish custom of singing at the table; the do's and don'ts, the unspoken rules and practical advice along with close to 100 songs in English and Swedish."

The life story of Lars Henrik Ottoson is a marvel of adventures and unlikely shifts in occupation, location and fortunes. A life formed by a childhood that created such life-long friends as Gosta Pryzelius, Joel Haskel, JOLO, Ake Hjorth, Ingemar Bergman or Ingemar Essen; by early work as a reporter alongside such dominant figures as Pekka Langer, BANG or Stig Gits Olsson... covering the Nuremberg trials after WWII for BBC, reporting the 1959 win of Swedish Heavy Weight Champ Ingemar Johansson... authoring books and filming with Sven Nykvist in Africa and going from Cape-to-Cape in a VW bus... Early anchor man of Swedish TV, PR King and later land developer in the Bahamas, Florida... and back to the pen, writing for America's Swedish newspaper Nordstjernan, co-founding the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in Florida and on and on."

130 carefully selected Swedish traditional schnapps songs, one third in English, the rest in the original language. Richly illustrated with traditional b&w drawings. Also includes texts for an English-speaking audience on Swedish table traditions and how to "survive" your first encounter with a traditional Swedish dinner. How to enjoy aquavit, the national beverage of the Scandinavian countries and how to spice your own aquavit-easier than you'd think.