Best scandinavian cooking, food & wine books according to redditors

You don't write where you are from or price range so it is a bit difficult to answer your question.

Juhls in Bergen is an internationally acclaimed and excellent jeweller and designer. This is where I got my wife something for our 10yrs anniversary a while back. See http://www.juhls.no

For something more tasty but not as lasting... good quality smoked trout or salmon, or dried cod for bacalao (klippfisk). Specialties like cheeses ("brunost", "gamalost"), or meats like smoked cured lamb (fenalår) or reindeer are also an option. Artisan quality jams, flours etc are an option too. Meny, Mega, Ultra are three of the higher end grocery chains that typically have a broader selection of foods.

Cheese slicer, for hard cheese? We like to think it is unique... http://www.bjorklund-1925.no/index.php/en/

Waffle iron? Just kidding. But do try waffles with sour cream and jam. Or Svele with butter and sugar. Or flatbreads. And fårikål, lapskaus, grandiosa (uh, no, skip that last one), well prepared fresh fish at a high end restaurant, traditional rice porridge, Skillingsbolle (mandatory in Bergen, it is a spiral bun with cinnamon).

We have a couple of michelin star restaurants that are worth a visit. And some that are close. See the slightly more inclusive http://www.whiteguide-nordic.com/ Look up the place you are going to before eating, Norway has just too many crappy restaurants.

Not sure about what to recommend regarding bread, as too many bakeries in Norway are crap, but if you get to Lom, there is some really nice eating to be done...

The Nordic Cook Book, or something by Andreas Viestad, Ingrid Espelid Hovig or Eyvind Hellstrøm om Norwegian or Nordic cuisine should be available in English.

High quality woolen mittens, caps, sweaters. Wool underwear/longs are probably the best you can get anywhere, but get them where the locals go (sporting stores). Dale, Oleana, Devold, Aclima are some brands of various quality and purpose.. ("Pierre Robert" on the other hand is supermarket imported stuff.)

All weather and rain gear ... in Loen, Olden and Stryn and a couple of other places you have factory outlets of major Norwegian brands for outdoor apparel. Skogstad for example have outlets that have some good deals (e.g. minor defects major discounts). Look up factory outlets (fabrikkutsalg) on google.

There are a few Norwegian artists of international acclaim, like painters, illustrators and such.

Most of all do try to get the experiences, the nature and sights are our best "goods" to offer.

"The Nordic Cookbook" by esteemed Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson seems pretty definitive. It's a massive tome with 700 recipes from all over the Nordic countries. I haven't read it myself so I can't vouch for it personally, but it's the first book that comes to my mind when I think of Swedish and/or Nordic cooking. I've seen a few documentaries about Nilsson and he's...let's call it devoted to his craft. Opened a Michelin 2-star restaurant in northern Sweden, far away from the bigger cities that normally house our Michelin star restaurants, just to be close to the produce he uses in his cooking. He's a bit of an odd duck, but one who does seem to know what he's doing in the kitchen.

A lot of famous restaurants and chefs have cookbooks that feature recipes from their restaurants.

It can be pretty hard to replicate a restaurant dish at home. I cook for a living and you have a lot of advantages in a professional kitchen. Hotter ovens and burners and all kinds of other toys.

So the recipes in restaurant cookbooks aren't always the most reliable when you do them at home. And the cookbooks are pricey. But they have pretty pictures.

If you want to get really crazy try one of these,


Mugaritz: A Natural Science of Cooking

or

Alinea

or

Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine

I've found two so far, but i bet there are more out there.


This one.

And this one.

I’m sure this will take longer to discover than you need, but I’ve found used book sales have a ton of cooking books available. Usually libraries will have them and often they’re old books. Often, there are some that have recipes from older generations (for example, I’ve gotten revolutionary-war era cookbooks that were published for historical societies) and they can really give you a picture of what people used to eat. You can pick these up for very cheap. I would guess your school library or public library would likely have some sources like this available.

A quick Amazon search yields something that might be helpful

A few from different regions:

Yucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition for Yucatecan / Mayan food. It is the best one for this, period.

Sicilian Food

The Nordic Cookbook for Scandinavian food.

Cuisine of Hungary.

Churrasco: Grilling the Brazilian Way

This one is more just baked goods, but Magnus does have a Nordic Cookbook that's also worth a look through.

If you're a gamer at all, the book that brought me to this sub to learn more about mead was The Elder Scrolls Cookbook. Fun recipes, even if you're not trying to recreate something from the game world.

A good cookbook isn't just about the recipes, or even primarily about the recipes. It's about the photos, the techniques, the flavor pairings, the curation. A good cookbook should be like looking into the head of a great chef.

We almost never cook from recipes, but my roommate and I own ~20 cookbooks between us.

To understand what a good cookbook can be, I recommend getting the NOMA cookbook and Fernand Point's Ma Gastronomie

Try this: http://www.amazon.com/Delectably-Danish-Julie-Jensen-McDonald/dp/0941016048
It's small, but good! We have an old version that's practically falling apart it gets used so much :)

https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Cookbook-Magnus-Nilsson/dp/0714868728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492508514&sr=8-1&keywords=the+nordic+cookbook

The Nordic cookbook by Magnus Nilsson was the cookbook that got me into cooking, and I can highly recommend it.

Have you seen Magnus Nilsson's Nordic Cookbook? The introduction is hilarious, he basically says "I was approached to do a general overview of Nordic cooking and I told them it was a stupid idea, there is no such thing. But then I thought about it for a while and decided, they will just find someone else to do it and it will be worse than if I did it, so I might as well do it myself".

Noma book

I like Magnus Nilsson, The Nordic Cookbook, Phaidon, 2015: https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Cookbook-Magnus-Nilsson/dp/0714868728/

It isn't a picture book, it isn't New Nordic, it isn't art food. It is of substantial thickness and weight. It's traditional cooking, and largely home cooking. The "traditional" ranges from ultra-traditional through to dishes that entered home cooking in the 1970s (like pork with bananas and curry sauce).

Not Iceland-focussed, but has Icelandic recipes.

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