Clintons visited Juholt – then for Bill Sill: “Munked in itself”

Håkan Juholt, ambassador to South Africa, was visited by the Clinton couple.
Then he took the opportunity to bid on his grandmother’s herring recipe – who seemed to go home with Bill Clinton.
– He munched on several pieces, Håkan Juholt says after five.

Håkan Juholt invited the couple Clinton home to his residence in South Africa, where he is an ambassador. During the meeting, solar cell projects were discussed in the country’s poor areas. But something else that attracted attention during the meeting was precisely the meal that Håkan Juholt offered – a herring plate.

– Hillary Clinton said: “We live in a time where we humans slip apart, and we need to come together. There is no better way to do it than through the food we eat, when the food has a history and a tradition. “

He says that Hillary Clinton loved the idea, as an old American Foreign Minister, that one can sell your country and its values ​​by talking about the food that is part of the country’s history. But just when it was time to cut into the food, she was called off by Secret Service for a phone call.

– I don’t know what happened, but Bill stayed, says Håkan Juholt.

Grandma’s recipe

Håkan Juholt is known for highlighting Swedish delicacies and has previously offered 5000 cinnamon buns in his diplomatic mission. But this time it was his grandmother Gunhild’s archipelago herring that applied.

– With a lot of dill and chives. I had put the herring in a little lime juice to give it a lovely acid, and of course mayonnaise, crème fraîche and some pepper, served on fine crispbread, he says and adds:

– I thought that Bill Clinton would take a bit of courtesy, but he stood and munched on several pieces. It was quite obvious that he really liked my grandmother’s herring.