Edward Blom

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Edward Blom at the Melodifestivalen 2018 in Karlstad .

Lars Edward Lucas Blom (born October 22, 1970 in Ekerö , Sweden ) is a Swedish archivist, gastronomy expert, economic historian, writer and television personality.

biography

Blom studied literature, German and archival sciences in Trier , Stockholm , Uppsala and Freiburg im Breisgau , where he joined the Corps Suevia Freiburg in 1993 . In 1996 he became cand. Phil. and graduated as an archivist in 1999 . Blom has been married to the Swedish journalist Gunilla Kinn since 2011. Their son Melchior was born in May 2015.

Edward Blom worked full-time at the Center for Economic History in Stockholm ( Centrum för Näringslivshistoria ) between 1997 and 2012 , most years as chairman for special projects ( Chef för särskilda projekt ). Furthermore, from 2003 to 2012 he was the editor of the magazine Företagsminnen , an economic history magazine, in which he was mainly involved in the fields of trade and food history. In 2009 he published the book Germans who industrialized the Stockholm brewing industry in German , a study of German brewers and brewery workers who immigrated to Stockholm in the second half of the 19th century. As a fellow writer , he remains connected to the center, but is now self-employed. In his own company "Edward Blom & Co" he gives lectures, writes texts and participates in television and radio programs, especially in the areas of food and beverage history.

He has participated in a variety of different economic history programs, notably on Swedish TV8 and DI-TV, including the Fredag ​​med Edward series (Friday with Edward). In 2009 he became known to a larger audience through the series Mellan skål och vägg med Edward Blom (Between Bowl and Wall), in which he traveled around Sweden with the business journalist Peter Andersson and presented regional specialties as well as stories and anecdotes. He also appears more often on the radio, especially in the Morgonpasset on the P3 station .

In autumn 2009, the television series Edward Bloms gästabud (Edward Bloms Gastmahl) with the ethnologist Jan-Öjvind Swahn, filmed on a farm in Gladsax in the Österlen region in the southeast of the Swedish province of Skåne . In 2010, Blom was a member of the jury for the TV show and cooking competition Stjärnkockarna (The Star Chefs) on TV3 and in the summer of the same year he was the presenter of the classic cooking program Meny (Menu) on radio station P1 . In 2011 Blom was one of the hosts in the cooking program Klockan åtta hos stjärnorna (8 o'clock by the stars) as well as a returning guest in Breaking News med Filip och Fredrik (Breaking News with Filip and Fredrik) on the TV channel Kanal 5 . The Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet showed the web TV series Edward Bloms Stockholm in winter 2012 .

Blom has written articles for a large number of magazines and journals, such as Dagens Handel (Today's Trade), where he writes the Gårdagens Handel (Yesterday's Trade) column , for Entreprenör (Entrepreneur), where he writes the Ur arkivet column (From the archive) leads, for Arv och Minne (heritage and memory), for the Katolskt magasin (Catholic magazine) and for the magazine Tema Arkiv (topic archive). Blom has also written several specialist books and published his first cookbook in 2013. He is also an active blogger and twitter writer.

Club life

Blom is a member of a large number of associations and is committed to them. He is one of the two founders of the "Association of Corps Students in Sweden", an association of old men and inactive people from Kösener and Weinheimer Corps in Sweden. He is also a board member of Concordia Catholica (Katholische Eintracht) and an active member of the Sällskapet Emil Hildebrands Vänner (Friends of Emil Hildebrand Association), Par Bricole and the Pimpinella Order . In the Katolsk historisk förening i Sverige (Catholic historical association in Sweden) he was vice-president.

Discography

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
SE SE
2017 När one festar festar one SE32 (13 weeks)
SE
Tonsatt feat. Edward Blom
2018 Live på en pinne SE51 (6 weeks)
SE

Awards and memberships

  • 2008: Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
  • 2010: Honorary member of the Corps Students Association in Sweden
  • 2011: Honorary member of the student nation Södermanlands-Nerikes Nation in Uppsala
  • 2013: His cookbook Allting gott och alldeles för mycket (Everything delicious and way too much) is awarded by the Måltidsakademien (Swedish Meal Academy)
  • 2014: Honorary member of the Sällskapet Emil Hildebrands Vänner association (Friends of Emil Hildebrand Association)
  • 2014: His cookbook Allting gott och alldeles för mycket achieved second place in the “Entertaining” price category at the Gourmet Award.
  • 2014: Honorary member of the Centrum för Näringslivshistoria (Center for Economic History)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Rüther, list of members of the Corps Suevia zu Freiburg im Breisgau 1815–2010, Freiburg 2010, p. 272
  2. ^ Edward Blom: Germans who industrialized Stockholm's brewing industry, Bromma, Sweden 2009
  3. ↑ in Swedish the expression can be roughly translated with the expression inter pocula
  4. ↑ Chart sources: SE
personal data
SURNAME Blom, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blom, Lars Edward Lucas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish archivist, restaurateur, economic historian, writer and a television personality
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Ekerö , Sweden