Location Var Gard Hotel and Conference Center, on the beach, in Stockholm Archipelago, at 17 kilometres southeast from center of town.
Gourmand Midsummer University
Business Three days of seminars, conferences, networking and business meetings for international rights.
Leisure Tours of Stockholm. Swedish food experience. See highlights.
The Guests Past winners of Gourmand Awards, all members of Academy of Cookbooks and Academy of Wine Books.
Media, VIPS, sponsors, partners, and other friends.
The Highlights
Thursday June 22, 2006
Dinner in Vasa Warship Museum
Wild game buffet, by chef Sven Mills, as delivered to HM The King of Sweden for Swedish National Day.
Friday June 23
Midsummer Nights Eve
The longest day of the year; the magic Nordic light celebration night: a magic feast for thousands of years.
Summer smorgasbord by the seaside, presented by the star chef of the Swedish Gastronomy
Saturday June 24
Awards and Nobel Gala Dinner in Nobel Prize Hall
Menu: Historic first Nobel Prize dinner of 1901
The Awards
Awards to authors and publishers who have won the most numbers of “Best in the World Awards” over the past 11 years.
Awards for 2005 winners who do not go to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Objective
Launch one International Cookbook Day, to coincide with National Cookbook Days in all countries.
Organize country chapters of the academies.
Eine Pressemitteilung der schwedischen Uni “Gourmand Midsummer University” (englisch)