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Omnivore. Traveler. Writer.

Curiosity about food is like hunger. It can´t be satisfied for more than a few hours at a time. My passion for food is about the food I make and eat, but also about the food I eat while traveling, and the people making it. It´s about history, how food have shaped us culturally and as human beings. It´s about the food shaping our...

10. November 2015

ABOUT ME

PROJECTS

KIDS & FOOD

Geitmyra Culinary Center for Children is a place where kids can learn about food that is good for them.

13. November 2015

PROJECTS

DOWN ON THE FARM

Each summer is the same: Pretend that I am a farmer on my family farm in Southern Norway. And hope that the Nordic weather is kind to me and...

12. November 2015

PROJECTS

RESTAURANT ST. LARS

If it can be grilled, it will be grilled.

11. November 2015

PROJECTS

CAPE TOWN – TO HARVEST DIVERSITY

I sometimes introduce myself as a “nomadic farmer”. It is not quite correct, but as in all exaggerations there is an element of truth in the statement.

11. November 2015

PROJECTS

NEW SCANDINAVIAN COOKING

For the past years I have had a peculiar hobby: I have been the host of the public television series New Scandinavian Cooking, produced by TellusWorks. The show had been...

10. November 2015

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Best thing I ate during my time in Greenland? It must have been these radishes. It might have been that they were flavored by history. They were, after all, grown in the old garden where Norse settlers used to farm from the 10th to the 15th century, before they died out. But the flavor in itself was amazing, so sweet, so intensely pungent I almost lost my breath. ⁠⠀ #greenland #nuuk #northofeden #edibleplanet #traveladventure #yum #foodstagram #foodandtravel #foodhistory #instatravel #InstaFood #Eater #ForkYeah #FoodPorn #InstaEats #GoodEats #FoodieAdventures #LoveFood #FeedFeed #FeedYourSoul photo: @mette.randem

A taste of Greenland. Lamb with pickled angelica. ⁠⠀ #greenland #nuuk #northofeden #edibleplanet #traveladventure #yum #foodstagram #foodandtravel #foodhistory #instatravel #InstaFood #Eater #ForkYeah #FoodPorn #InstaEats #GoodEats #FoodieAdventures #LoveFood #FeedFeed #FeedYourSoul photo: @mette.randem

The meat market in Nuuk, Greenland. The high north is clean and wild. Or rather, it should be. The rest of the world keeps pumping its garbage and poison into the oceans, and it ends up here. Sea mammals are particularly at risk, and the last decades there have been ever increasing levels of mercury and other heavy metals. People who eat sea mammals, like the indigenous population in Greenland, are at a particular risk. ⁠⠀ #greenland #nuuk #northofeden #edibleplanet #traveladventure #foodstagram #foodandtravel #foodhistory #instatravel photo: @mette.randem

Brutal beauty at the Nuuk market. Seal! ⁠⠀ #greenland #nuuk #northofeden #edibleplanet #traveladventure #foodstagram #foodandtravel #foodhistory #instatravel #FoodieAdventures #LoveFood #FeedFeed #FeedYourSoul photo: @mette.randem

For someone who considers myself as omnivorous, the meat market in Nuuk, Greenland is a bit of a challenge. Here nothing goes to waste. I must admit that some of the specialties are somewhat of an acquired taste, but it is important to note the importance that sea mammals have had, and still has, for the indigenous population on the islands. Eating seal, whale, walrus and the likes, and eating all of it, including blabber and intestines, was a way to achieve food security in an environment with little to offer when it comes to traditional agriculture. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #greenland #nuuk #northofeden #edibleplanet #traveladventure #yum #foodstagram #foodandtravel #foodhistory #instatravel #InstaFood #Eater #indigenousfood photo: @mette.randem

To look down on Greenland from the air, is like staring at frozen fear. Miles and miles become hundreds of miles of ice. High irregular ridges rages hundreds of feet in the air, like tsunami waves frozen in motion. It is so barren, so deserted that it might just as well have been another planet. I once crossed the Kalahari. I thought that was pretty deserted. But Greenland makes Kalahari look like Mall of America. For thousands of years, for millions of years it has been here. Now it is moving, because of us. This is the frontline of climate change.#globalheting #climatechange #climatecrisis #greenland #nuuk #northofeden #edibleplanet #traveladventure #yum #foodstagram #foodandtravel #foodhistory #instatravel #InstaFood photo: @mette.randem ⁠⠀

FOOD

MUNCHIES – EVEN SCANDINAVIAN CHEFS THINK A LITTLE OVERCOOKED MEAT BEATS PERFECTION

Published by Andreas Viestad

Munchies met up with Magnus Nilsson and me after a Modernist cuisine dinner in Seattle to talk about meat thats too perfect, Scandinavian traditions and Magnus Nilssons face on...

23. June 2016

FOOD, MEDIA

FIRE PLUS FOOD EQUALS DELICIOUSNESS

Published by Andreas Viestad

Fire! It is our ever-lasting love affair. At Etxebarri it is more than that. If cooking can be an art then what the former electrician Victor Arguinzoniz does with...

8. June 2016

ARTICLES, FOOD, THE WASHINGTON POST - THE GASTRONOMER

MY TOP TEN AT 1000 COOKBOOKS

Published by Andreas Viestad

I have never understood why some many cookbooks are so bloody boring. John Poister’s book is not, so I forgive that it is not terribly useful unless I want...

2. June 2016

FOOD, MEDIA

ANT HUNTING IN THE AMAZON

Published by Andreas Viestad

“Finally! We have been without ants for a week now,” Alex Atala says as I arrive with a fresh shipment of saúva ants from São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located...

8. February 2016

ARTICLES, FOOD