The ‘Swedish Gastronomic Academy’ is an academy whose task is to protect and work for the development of gastronomy and gastronomic culture in Sweden. The academy was founded on 6 November 1958 by the composer Sten Broman, the writer Fritiof Nilsson Piraten and Tore Wretman. Among the first members were, in addition to the founders, the journalist Stig Ahlgren, the theater director Karl Gerhard and the artist Povel Ramel. Today, the members of Sweden’s Gastronomic Academy are seventeen and are elected for life: at the age of 75 they become “Senior Nobilis”. From the beginning, no women were allowed to join the Academy, until in 1983 Märit Huldt (Hiram) was elected as the first woman. The Academy meets twice a year in Stockholm: the spring meeting always begins with the chairman’s, director’s, speech, which is then published in the academy’s yearbook Gastronomic calendar; the autumn meeting is held with a goose dinner on 10 November, Martin’s Day, in memory of Martin of Tours, the patron saint of the Academy and the subject of its emblem.
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