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What does/is a Viking eat? Andrea Itzinger explores this question in the book "The Food of the Vikings. Following the traces of expansion, the author embarks on a journey into the penultimate millennium, from Norway/Iceland and Greenland to England, France and Russia. One encounters culinary possibilities in an entertaining but historically verified way: The reader does not have to become a cook to understand the tastiest part of (Viking) life: The food of the Vikings.
The history of the Vikings is a history of early globalisation, the clever conquerors came from Scandinavia to Sicily, to America and the Orient. The culinary journey in the footsteps of the Norsemen is peppered with amusing and historicist facts. But cooking instructions are neither found on rune stones nor can they be gleaned from the heroic epics. So these recipes are interspersed with chopped-up facts, botanical knowledge sprinkled on top, seasoned with fantasy and rounded off with a pinch of humour. Friends of ancient recipes, simple regional ingredients and, above all, quite hearty food will get their money's worth here, and one may assume that a recipe book like this would have been extremely appealing to the men of the Viking Age. That the main drink was mead, however, is a modern myth: the Vikings preferred beer and wine!
The history of the Vikings is a history of early globalisation, the clever conquerors came from Scandinavia to Sicily, to America and the Orient. The culinary journey in the footsteps of the Norsemen is peppered with amusing and historicist facts. But cooking instructions are neither found on rune stones nor can they be gleaned from the heroic epics. So these recipes are interspersed with chopped-up facts, botanical knowledge sprinkled on top, seasoned with fantasy and rounded off with a pinch of humour. Friends of ancient recipes, simple regional ingredients and, above all, quite hearty food will get their money's worth here, and one may assume that a recipe book like this would have been extremely appealing to the men of the Viking Age. That the main drink was mead, however, is a modern myth: the Vikings preferred beer and wine!
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- Books
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- Second Hand
- Author
- Itzinger, Andrea
- Title
- Das Essen der Wikinger. Eine kulinarische Reise auf den Spuren der Nordmänner
- Details
- With some b/w illustrations. No place: Kral Verlag (no year). 192 pp.
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