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Travel through Scandinavia with Adam Liaw as he revisits his best moments and the best meals from his journey throughout the region.
24:49A food revolution has hit Scandinavia! Adam Liaw heads far north to investigate the cleanest, healthiest, and happiest part of the world, while immersing himself in Scandinavian Nordic culture, history and cuisine. In this episode: Copenhagen, Denmark. Adam is tutored in the art of Danish coffee, meets Claus Meyer, the god...
22:23Adam and Meik Wiking, the Director of The Happiness Institute, together cook the national Danish dish, Stegt Flaesk, and discuss how Denmark is the happiest country in the world. Adam ventures into top chef Christian Puglisi's kitchen at Michelin star restaurant Relae, before visiting a pastry chef to make a traditional Da...
23:32Adam masters the art of making traditional Danish Smørrebrød in Copenhagen, before travelling to the west coast to Bork Havn to learn how Vikings lived and ate. Next Adam’s in Stockholm, Sweden in the kitchen of Michelin star chef Niklas Ekstedt, who’s combined the Viking diet and pre-electricity heating to invent his own ...
24:29In Stockholm, Sweden, Adam is inside the daring kitchen of Chef Niklas Ekstedt's Michelin restaurant of his namesake, Ekstedt. Niklas shows Adam his rustic pre-electricity style of cooking using only fire, wood, and hay to cook his fine dining dishes. Adam meets Chef and Restaurateur Mathias Pilblad who's opened the only S...
22:50Adam is in the Swedish city of Malmo to visit the kitchen of the first Swedish female chef Titti Qvarnstrom awarded a Michelin Star for her restaurant Bloom in the Park. Adam visits a school where they have introduced a city-wide organic food policy and makes Pea Soup and Spelt Pancakes for the kids. Adam takes in a new Sw...
24:46Adam is in Norway, the wealthiest country in the region yet slightly behind Sweden and Denmark in the food revolution. Adam enters the Mathallen Food Market in Oslo, the new central hub for high end food in the city before going behind the scenes at Oslo's ground-breaking two Michelin star restaurant Maaemo. He catches sus...
24:18Adam is north in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago at the world's most northern fine dining restaurant, Huset. He meets Jason Roberts, an Australian that's lived in Svalbard for 20 years. Adam visits 1930s Moelven wooden barracks adorned with mining and hunting memorabilia. Here he makes famous Norwegian Salmon Graval...
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Travel through Scandinavia with Adam Liaw as he revisits his best moments and the best meals from his journey throughout the region. 05:20“Salmon from the north of Norway is famous around Scandinavia. Its large size and rich fat make it a real delicacy from the region. This traditional Norwegian style of curing salmon is very simple, and perfect for feeding a crowd.” Adam Liaw, Destination Flavour Scandinavia
05:32"One of my favourite Scandinavian food traditions is the Norwegian Krabbefest. In the summer, the waters around Bergen teem with hundreds of thousands of delicious brown crabs, and the people of Bergen like nothing better than pulling a few out of the water at their summer houses on the water, cooking them up, and washing ...
05:40“Waffles are an institution in both Norway and Sweden and on a Sunday morning in either country it’s almost as if the entire north of Scandinavia pulls their waffle irons out of the cupboard and gets cooking. Although waffles from both countries are thin, heart-shaped and delicious, they are still very different. The Swede...
05:24"One of my earliest food memories is of reading comic books about the Viking adventures of Asterix and Obelix and thinking how delicious the glazed wild boars looked that they would eat. Finally, I’ve fulfilled a dream in cooking a boar like that. The double-sided Hasselback potatoes use a Japanese technique to re-invent a...
05:07“We tend to think of Vikings as ferocious warriors with carnivorous tastes, but the real Viking diet was surprisingly light and nutritious. They ate berries, vegetable soups and barley risottos, and something like this simple roasted salmon with flatbreads might have been just the kind of meal a terrifying Viking might hav...