• @[email protected]
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      492 years ago

      The colder it is, the harder it is to grow food and the less options and culinary innovation you have. It is what it is.

      • Skua
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        52 years ago

        South Korea has similar temperatures to most of the UK and their food is absolutely incredible, we need to find out how they pulled it off

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          Fermentation? I’m sure that’s not all of it but I think that’s how they got a lot of things to keep.

        • IWantToFuckSpez
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          132 years ago

          They are more to the south though. They are somewhere around the same latitude as the Mediterranean. Even though they have snowy winters the winter season is shorter thus their growing season last much longer. Hence why they can grow a larger variety of vegetables.

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        272 years ago

        Danish restaurants have won World’s Best Restaurant 6 times in the past 13 years (with an additional 5 placements in 2nd and 3rd place, combined, since 2009), but granted, that doesn’t say much about Danish cuisine in general 😓

        Still, it has to count for something, dammit!

        • @[email protected]
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          102 years ago

          Our lunch-cuisine is excellent and quite unique. Lots of different types of smoked and cured fish, lovely bread, interesting combinations like ‘æbleflæsk’, and so on. And smørrebrød is a delight when made properly and fresh, and not something you find elsewhere.

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          I was in Kopenhagen last week. The bakery stuff is a pure bliss. I falled in love with the kanelstykke 😍

          • @[email protected]
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            52 years ago

            Happy you had a good time, and yes, the baked goods and pastries are something else! 😊❤️🥧

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        Religion probably played a role too. That line is almost the Protestantism-Catholicism divide. Protestants had to live a sober life and this probably extended to their cuisine. Like the Dutch and British traveled across the world and waged wars for spices and the spices barely entered their gastronomy. All they did was sell the spices to Southern Europe

            • IWantToFuckSpez
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              52 years ago

              Well according to Joseph Smith Jesus went on a road trip in America after the resurrection. Why else would Jesus cross the pond? For the mighty tater of course.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Dealers can’t be consuming all their supply ;)

          But I agree, overall, southern European food is just so much better.

    • Dojan
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      132 years ago

      Speaking as a Swede, it’s true. Rotten fish is not a flavour, it’s a crime against gastronomy. Also flour is not a spice.