Scandinavian Kitchen - Good Food with Love from Scandinavia

Scandinavians today still enjoy running around in fields on Saturday afternoons dressed up as vikings. The guy on the left looks particularly into it.

Scandinavian food is quite straight forward - a bit like Scandinavian people, really: no beating around the bush about anything. Of course, each nation and region has its own very distinct flavours and ingredients, but the staple goods remain similar:

Grain and cereal such as rye and oats
Seafood and fish - mainly prawns, salmon and herring
Meat - such as smoked and cured hams and game
Stuff from trees and bushes - such as berries and mushrooms

In Scandinavian kitchen you will find our food is based on these ingredients - lots of rye breads, fish and cured meats.

The long winters made our Scandinavians ancestors warm to the idea of preserving food for the dark months ahead. Food was smoked, cured or pickled - and bread was heavy and made to last and to provide enough energy for a long day felling trees in the woods or setting sail for some good old plundering and exploring.