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Delectably Danish: Recipes and Reflections

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This book contains more than 100 recipes-from Racine's famous Danish kringles to the famous open-faced sandwiches. There are great fruit soups and the well-known frikadeller (Danish meat-ball) recipes.

Julie Jensen McDonald is noted for her novels about Danish immigrants in America, published by Iowa State University Press. This is her first cookbook.

The cover of this book shows a young woman in Solvang, California in Danish costume. Solvang is a major tourist attraction in America, first settled by the Danes from Iowa. The back cover depicts two charming children in Danish costumes holding a kringle at the O&H Danish Bakery in Racine, Wisconsin. Racine is America's largest Danish community with over 40,000 people of Danish heritage living there.

Recipes come from fabulous Danish cooks in Iowa, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska, all states with Danish populations. Special coverage is given to Dana College in Blair, Nebraska and to Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa.

The 16 page color section of the book contains photographs of Danish foods, the street scenes and people of Solvang and works by Danish artists such as Christian Petersen at Iowa State University, Ames, and the Mount Rushmore sculpture by Gutzon Borglum.

Delectably Danish: Recipes And Reflections is a flat-spined cookbook of uniquely Danish delicacies, from Danish Liver Loaf to Rum Soup, Irene's Danish Kringle, Tivoli Salad and so much more. Black-and-white and color photographs offer a visual peek into Danish culture, and the text gives an ultra-condensed rundown of Danish history and holidays, as well as famous Danes. A highly affordable introduction to Danish culinary culture, filled with easy- to-follow recipes.

The book is very informative. But does not seem to have very many authentic Danish dishes. This is more of a Danish American recipe book. If your looking for authentic recipes, this is not the book you want.

This is a great little book with great Danish recipes, stories, history, trivia, etc. My mother-in-law came from Denmark to USA in 1952 (legally immigrated) and these are authentic recipes. If you ever get the chance to go to Solvang, California - do so - it is great!!!

Friends and relatives rave at the food created using these recipes. The tid-bits of Danish and Danish-American history are fun for conversation while consuming the wonderful, authentic Danish dishes. These books are perfect gifts for friends who are of Danish descent, Danes by marriage, or are just wanna-be-Danes.