Photo by Heami Lee
Throughout many parts of Europe, tall leaf- and flower-adorned maypoles were raised to welcome summertime and signal hopes for a bountiful harvest. Briana Volk, proprietor of Portland Hunt + Alpine Club in Portland, Maine, remembers seeing a maypole when she attended the annual Scandinavian Festival in Astoria, Oregon.
“As a child, I would go with my Finnish grandparents to watch the crowning of the festival’s Miss Scandinavia, eat baked goods, dance to accordion music and see the maypole be raised,” she says. “The festival was always the highlight of my summer.”
Her homage is a boozy parfait that layers fresh berries with crushed ice and gets topped with vodka, kombucha and peach. For those who seek a project, Volk suggests swapping kombucha for sima, a Finnish fermented drink flavored with lemons.
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