Plates will be piled high with crayfish, cooked Swedish-style in salted water with lots of dill. The meal is accompanied by potato salad, green salad, bread, Swedish cheese and dessert. Swedish meatballs with ligonberry jam are available for those Americans whom have yet to catch the crayfish craze. Come eat, drink and make merry to mark the close of summer in Swedish style!
Crayfish parties in Sweden are often held out of doors in the moonlight with big paper lanterns and festive colored lights strung for decoration. Paper napkins, hats, bibs and paper plates all have a crayfish motif. And everyone raises their glass of aquavit to sing traditional Swedish drinking songs.