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Charlotte Celsing
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Charlotte Celsing is a journalist and writer based in Stockholm. She has lived in Indonesia, Fiji, and Australia and has a passion for travel and food. She is a contributor to 1001 Foods You Must Taste Before You Die, where earlier versions of her contributions to Britannica first appeared.

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Open-faced sandwich on crispbread with potatoes, chopped onions, diced tomatoes, and sour cream next to an open can of surstromming, with more crispbread in the background.
Surströmming, pungent, fermented herring of Swedish origin. Neither the name, which means “sour herring,” nor the clinging smell deters the faithful from this traditional Swedish delicacy. It is known as one of the stinkiest foods in the world. Surströmming is made with fermented Baltic herring, a…
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