Left: from top to bottom, left to right): Hangikjöt, Hrútspungar, Lifrarpylsa, Blóðmör, Hákarl, Svið. Right: Rúgbrauð, Flatbrauð (courtesy Wickipedia) Ethnic food. What is it really? Nostalgia…
Cooking with a Tablespoon of Love
This year’s Thorrablot has come and gone. It was a great success. Thorrablots are all about food. They are midwinter feasts, originally, to celebrate the…
No destination is as important to North Americans of Icelandic descent as that of the farm on which their ancestors lived. In article after article,…
I love cooking. I’m not talking about having one speciality such as barbecued steak that can be whipped up once a summer. …
Emily Campbell, Carol Johannson, Ruth Olafson It was a great evening. Tom and Beverly and the volunteers did a great job of the food. Jodi, as…
Without sheep our Icelandic ancestors would have been driven from Iceland or died. Sheep, more than any other animal, fed and clothes our people. From…
Icelandic Canadian perogis with high bush cranberry jelly Our Icelandic food heritage is greatly different from our Icelandic North American food heritage. How could it not…
Uno von Troil says “Next to fishing, the principal support of the Icelanders is the breeding of cattle. “Their beeves are not large, but very fat…
Food, more than any other element of ethnicity, helps define an ethnic group. It helps create and maintain identity. When we want to celebrate,…
I had Kraft dinner for supper. Well, actually, it wasn’t Kraft dinner. It was Annie’s Rice Pasta & Cheddar. I was diagnosed with Celiac…