Presentation på engelska av Isofs kunskapsbank Matkult, s. 44-46.

Built from the bountiful archival sources of the Institute for Language and Folklore (Isof) in Sweden, cultural heritage on the themes of food, drink and meals are now made available on the website matkult.se (English: Foodcult), a knowledge bank for traditional small-scale food culture. In the Isof archives, extensive knowledge on traditional food culture has been and still is being collected. The themes extend from agriculture and fishing to the diet, food resources, plant varieties, livestock breeds, dishes, food production, kitchen utensils and meals of the Swedish countryside. The collected material is rich in its diversity, and forms a source of knowledge of both food production and the context surrounding food as well as an understanding of people’s relationship with food. The aim of the archives’ early documentation was also to record dialects, and in the archival sources a wide variety of geographical words and expressions are presented.