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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, NOV. 25, 2018
Locals get in the holi-Dane spirit!
BY JULIANNE CUBA
They got hygge with it!
Hundreds of families
got a head start on
their holiday shopping on
Nov. 17 during an annual
Christmas market held by
leaders of a Danish church
in Brooklyn Heights.
The tables full of Scandinavian
treats, drinks,
and gifts for sale at the
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offered shoppers a selection
of unique stocking
stuffers — and gave Danes
living in Kings County
who stopped by a taste of
the old country, according
to a Sunset Parker who
moved to Brooklyn from
Denmark in 2004.
“We go get Danish specialities,
including pork
roast, candy, and candles
— things that remind me
of home,” said Rasmus
Jantzen.
Clergy and lay staff at
Willow Street’s Danish
Seaman’s Church host the
yuletide bazaar ahead of
Thanksgiving each year
so that expats can stock
up on goodies before heading
home to Denmark
for the holidays.
And the fair boasted
so many different things
to buy that organizers set
up two locations to sell the
stuff, one at the Seaman’s
Church and another at
nearby Plymouth Church
on Hicks Street.
Jantzen, who said he
tries to hit up the Dan-
EARLY SHOPPING: (Above) Pernille Kauffman showed off some
pork loins at the Danish Christmas Fair staged by leaders of Brooklyn
Heights’s Danish Seamen’s Church on Nov. 17. (Center) Queens
resident Cecelia Quirindongo and Michigan resident Marlene Riascos
scored some Scandinavian goodies. (Right) Anna Sofi e served
a traditional Danish Christmas dessert, known as æbleskive, and
mulled wine called gløgg. Photos by Trey Pentecost Continued on page 13
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