Cooking Danish: A Taste of Denmark [Hardcover]

Stig Hansen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2, 2007

A taste of Denmark dishes up delicious servings of authentic traditional recipes such as AEbleskiver and Smorrebrod. Full of beautiful photographs of finished dishes and many how-to pictures, this is also an art creation by Danish born executive chef Stig Hansen. A perfect companion in exploring Danish cuisine!

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: The Cookbook Marketplace (July 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979101905
• ISBN-13: 978-0979101908
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stig Hansen
The Viking Chef
Author, Cooking Danish - A taste of Denmark
Stig Hansen was born and raised in Denmark in a family of six boys. Stig have been cooking since high school, when he enrolled in an advanced home economics course with his girlfriend. She dropped the course after just a few weeks, but with 34 girls in the class, Stig wasn't going anywhere.
He pursued a career in cooking at the Danish National Culinary School, including internships at major European hotels and in the Merchant Marine. He relocated to the US, working as a chef at such places as Candia in Los Angeles and Nendel's in Portland, Oregon. He was recently awarded the prestigious "Master of Taste" by the Chefs in America Foundation for Culinary excellence.
Beyond food, Stig's passions include snow-skiing, sailing, scuba diving, homebrewing and all things Danish. In 2005 he took second place out of 4,128 entries in the American Homebrewers Association contest with his Lazy Moose Golden Lager. He keeps close ties with the Danish Community through the Danish Brotherhood, Danish Clubs and Rebile Society among others.
Stig lives in Eden, Utah with his wife Sue.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rigtig Dansk (Really Danish), August 11, 2008

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Gil (Poulsbo WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking Danish: A Taste of Denmark (Hardcover)

I have purchased 2 books one as a gift. The recipes are well written and beautifully illustrated. I have used the recipes to make, Grav Laks, Smorkage, Danish Mustard, Fish Sauce, Fars Fars Ryebread. The results are great and best of all the instructions favor the American kitchen and limitations of not having a Euro market in your neighborhood. I think you will be pleased with this book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great variety of Danish food, November 24, 2009

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J. Poe (DFW, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking Danish: A Taste of Denmark (Hardcover)

I got this cookbook as a gift from my sister, as we are a quarter Danish but never really learned much about traditional Danish foods. This book has a fantastic variety of recipes & is well illustrated. I mean seriously - beer to raspberry jelly, aebleskiver to split pea soup, marzipan to bread. The first chapter is all on open faced sandwiches. I grew up in California & always felt like Danish foods from places like Solvang were really heavy and fattening, or had herring (which I can't stand). Yes, this cookbook does have all of that, but it also has recipes you could picture in a contemporary American kitchen. DH & I loved the split pea soup. We also made several of the open faced sandwich recipes including a salami one & a shrimp one. When you focus on the presentation more than gigantic American portions, it's not so overwhelming. I also tried the aebleskiver, which isn't as good as my family's passed down recipe (what coobkook recipe ever is?) but I liked the addition of the cardamom so I learned from that. I also can't wait to try the jelly & marzipan recipes, but I doubt we'll be making the beer as we're not big drinkers. Like I said - great variety of recipes that gives you a taste of Danish flavors.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and well written, September 19, 2008

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Kathleen A. Fowler "Kathy Fowler" (Enid, Oklahoma - USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking Danish: A Taste of Denmark (Hardcover)

Great cookbook - amazing photography. It is nice to find a Danish cookbook in English and with American short cuts when possible. The recipes are will written and we have enjoyed trying new things.