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New Nordic Cuisine ( da, Det nye nordiske køkken, sv, Det nya nordiska köket, no, Det nye nordiske kjøkken, fi, Uusi pohjoismainen keittiö) is a
culinary
Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of outline of food preparation, food preparation, cooking and food presentation, presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. People working in this field – especially in establishments such as res ...
movement which has been developed in the
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; literal translation, lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmar ...
, and
Scandinavia
Scandinavia; Sámi languages: /. ( ) is a subregion#Europe, subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. In English usage, ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, ...
in particular, since the mid-2000s. New Nordic Cuisine was propelled by, and found inspiration in, ideas and a manifesto written by food activist and entrepreneur
Claus Meyer
Claus Meyer (born 27 December 1963) is a Danish entrepreneur, cook and television host. He is often accredited as the founder of the New Nordic Cuisine philosophy.
Projects
Claus Meyer has been engaged in a plethora of projects and has been ...
and a number of Scandinavian chefs in 2004 in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
. New Nordic Cuisine has been used to promote local, natural and seasonal
produce
Produce is a generalized term for many farm-produced crops, including fruits and vegetables (grains, oats, etc. are also sometimes considered ''produce''). More specifically, the term ''produce'' often implies that the products are fresh and g ...
as a basis for new dishes both in restaurants and in the home. As a result, a number of restaurants, in particular in Denmark, have introduced local ingredients, some often new to the usual palate, in combination with traditional foods prepared in new ways. One of the greatest chef who help the nordic cuisine its the well know Rene Redzepi,former head chef of Noma restaurant
History
In November 2004, on the initiative of the Danish chefs
René Redzepi
René Redzepi (born 16 December 1977) is a Danish chef and co-owner of the three-Michelin star restaurant Noma in the Christianshavn neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. His restaurant was voted the best restaurant in the world by ''Restaurant' ...
and Claus Meyer of the then newly opened
Noma restaurant, chefs and food professionals from all the Nordic countries met in Copenhagen to discuss how best to develop what they called the "New Nordic Cuisine". In particular, they sought to emphasize the need for what they described as "purity, simplicity and freshness" as well as increased use of
seasonal foods. Restaurants were encouraged to develop traditional dishes making use of ingredients benefitting from the local region's climate, water and soil.
["New Nordic Cuisine"]
''Nordic Council of Ministers''. Retrieved 12 December 2011,
Meeting in Copenhagen in 2005, the
Nordic Council
The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary Nordic cooperation among the Nordic countries. Formed in 1952, it has 87 representatives from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as from the autonomou ...
's agricultural and food ministers from Denmark,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
,
Iceland
Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
and dependent territories gave their support to these developments, launching what they called the "new Nordic Food Programme". In 2006, this led to the funding of EUR 3 million for a number of related activities.
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Approach
The evolving cuisine has sought to take advantage of the possibilities inherent in traditional Scandinavian recipes for fish and meat dishes, building on the use of local products while reviving and adapting some of the older techniques, for example, those for marinating, smoking and salting. Products such as rapeseed, oats, cheeses and older varieties of apples and pears are now being prepared with greater attention to safeguarding their natural flavours. These steps have been taken by the proponents of the New Nordic Cuisine in parallel with their awareness of a growing interest in organic foods throughout the region. In addition to concerns for "purity and freshness", they have also aimed to make maximum use of seasonal produce such as new potato
The potato is a starch#Food, starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial plant, perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be fo ...
es, strawberries
The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; ''Fragaria × ananassa'') is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus '' Fragaria'', collectively known as the strawberries, which are cultivated worldwide for their fruit. The fruit is widely ap ...
and asparagus in the summer and baked goods and seasoned meats during the Christmas period.["Denmark Special"]
, ''Food & design'', #9 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
Claus Meyer has supported the campaign, not only in restaurants but also for food production
The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, ...
in the Nordic region.[ The Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson has also pioneered the New Nordic Cuisine, and his approach, also includes the documentation and reviving of traditional cooking from across the Nordic region altogether.
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Restaurants
Since its opening, Copenhagen's Noma restaurant (short for ''nordisk mad'' meaning "Nordic food") has been a flagship for and at the forefront of developing and materializing the ideas behind the New Nordic Cuisine. Aiming to serve dishes prepared under guidelines drawn up for the new cuisine it was repeatedly awarded the title of "world's best restaurant" in 2010, 2011, 2012, and again in 2014 by the ''Restaurant'' magazine, supported by the San Pellegrino mineral water company. Other restaurants in Copenhagen and the provinces have followed the trend, attracting increasing interest at home and abroad.[Betty Hallock]
"Savoring the rise of New Nordic Cuisine in Copenhagen"
''Los Angeles Times'', 5 September 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2011. Among those who have adopted the new approach to cooking are ''Ti Trin Ned'' in Fredericia, ''Geranium'' in Copenhagen, '' Maaemo'' in Oslo and former ''Restaurant Malling & Schmidt'' in Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
.[
Magnus Nilsson's small restaurant ]Fäviken
Fäviken was a restaurant located in Åre Municipality, Jämtland, Sweden. It was run by chef Magnus Nilsson between 2008 and 2019. The food served at the restaurant was localised to the estates around the restaurant, with only a handful of excep ...
in rural Sweden closed in 2019 but has been very influential in developing and inventing New Nordic Cuisine.
File:Flickr - cyclonebill - Stegt flæsk med ramsløg og grillet agurk.jpg, Fried bacon with ramsons
''Allium ursinum'', known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amary ...
and grilled cucumber
Cucumber (''Cucumis sativus'') is a widely-cultivated Vine#Horticultural climbing plants, creeping vine plant in the Cucurbitaceae family that bears usually cylindrical Fruit, fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables.
File:Flickr - cyclonebill - Rå knivmusling med persillegele og sne af kærnemælk og peberrod.jpg, Raw razor shell
A razor is a bladed tool primarily used in the removal of body hair through the act of shaving. Kinds of razors include straight razors, safety razors, disposable razors, and electric razors.
While the razor has been in existence since before ...
with parsley
Parsley, or garden parsley (''Petroselinum crispum'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae that is native to the central and eastern Mediterranean region (Sardinia, Lebanon, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, southern Italy, Greece, Por ...
jelly, buttermilk
Buttermilk is a fermented dairy drink. Traditionally, it was the liquid left behind after churning butter out of cultured cream. As most modern butter in western countries is not made with cultured cream but uncultured sweet cream, most mod ...
snow and horseradish
File:Cyclonebill Hvide asparges med pocheret aeggeblomme og skovmaerkesauce.jpg, White asparagus
Asparagus, or garden asparagus, folk name sparrow grass, scientific name ''Asparagus officinalis'', is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus ''Asparagus''. Its young shoots are used as a spring vegetable.
It was once classified in ...
with poached egg yolk and woodruff sauce
File:Flickr - cyclonebill - Toast med pighvarrogn, urter og eddikestøv.jpg, Toast with turbot
The turbot (''Scophthalmus maximus'') is a relatively large species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is a demersal fish native to marine or brackish waters of the Northeast Atlantic, Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is an im ...
roe and vinegar dust
See also
*Nordic cuisine
This is a list of European cuisines. A cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, often associated with a specific culture. European cuisine (also called "Western cuisine") refers collectively to the cuisines of Eur ...
*Culinary diplomacy
Culinary diplomacy, gastrodiplomacy or food diplomacy is a type of cultural diplomacy, which itself is a subset of public diplomacy. Its basic premise is that "the easiest way to win hearts and minds is through the stomach".Rockower, Paul S"Proj ...
Literature
*Meyer, Claus: ''Almanak'', Copenhagen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2010, 694 p. .
*Redzepi, René: ''Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine'', London, Phaidon Press, 2010, 368 p. .
References
External links
* {{cite web, url=http://www.nfd.nynordiskmad.org/index.php?id=474, title=Nordic Food Diplomacy, publisher=The Nordic Council of Ministers
New Scandinavian Cooking
Scandinavian cuisine
Culinary diplomacy