NORWEGIAN MEALS AND CUSTOMS So keen on sports and the outdoor life are the Norwegians that it seems they rise deliberately early to have time to fortify themselves with a heroic breakfast selected at will from a koltbord. Typically, this consists of an assortment of cold roasted and cured meats ...
Foods Commonly Used in Norway
NORWEGIAN FOODS THAT ARE COMMONLY USED Although ice cream vendors commonly hawk their wares at ski matches and shows throughout the winter, in other respects Norwegians are uncommonly conservative not only in foods but also in food preparation. This is not to say that Norwegian food is bland. It is ...
Special Occasions in Norway
NORWEGIAN SPECIAL OCCASIONS The Norwegians were the last of the Teutonic tribes to set aside their beliefs in Odin and Thor and the glorious afterlife in Valhalla, the warrior’s final reward. This was followed by almost 500 years of Catholicism which in turn was suppressed in favor of Evangelical Lutheranism. ...
Domestic Life in Norway
NORWEGIAN DOMESTIC LIFE Although Norwegians treasure their solitude and privacy, they do enjoy social occasions. In rural areas social occasions are often combined with cooperative efforts concerned with smoking, pickling, salting, and preserving meats and fish, preserving berries and other fruits and communal baking of huge batches of flatbrod, enough ...
Norwegian Foods
FOODS IN NORWAY DAIRY PRODUCTS Glasses of cold milk, sour milk, and buttermilk are enjoyed by all ages at all meals and often as a refreshment. Many varieties of cheeses, mostly made from sheep’s and goats milk, range from creamy and sweet to the powerful gammel ost, a cheese so ...
Norwegian Food and Culture
FOOD AN CULTURE IN NORWAY There is more to Norway and Norwegians than meets the eye. Outwardly the country is the most sparsely populated in all of Europe with less than 25 percent of the land inhabited and more than 75 percent of it a vast stillness of barren mountain ...
New Zealand Foods Glossary and Food Terms
GLOSSARY OF FOODS AND FOOD TERMS Aruhe, Parara, or Ruma: a fern-like shrub, one of the first “greens” used by the Maoris. The steamed roots were pounded into cakes said to be both medicinal and nourishing. Biscuits: cookies. Chips: french-fried potatoes. Colonial Goose: a stuffed, boned leg of lamb, roasted ...
New Zealand Meals, Customs and Special Occasions
MEALS AND CUSTOMS The pattern of three meals a day is slowly making inroads into the long-cherished tradition of six meals: breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper (although often afternoon tea and dinner may be one and the same). The factors that are creating the changes in ...
Foods Commonly Used in New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND COMMONLY USED FOODS Because many of the plants brought by the first Polynesians who arrived in New Zealand more than a thousand years ago (such as coconut) would not grow, sub-tropical New Zealand differs from the rest of the South Pacific. It was the Maoris who, with diligence ...
Domestic Life in New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND DOMESTIC LIFE The mutually appreciative and interdependent relationship shared by the peoples of New Zealand is depicted in the preparation, serving, and storing of homegrown foods. Certainly the Maoris’ vast knowledge of and skill with local produce, fish and fowl added to the European larder. Abundant water power ...