Customer Reviews

Icelandic Food & Cookery

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Nanna has shared with us the fruits of her cooking and research labors of many years - thank you so much! This book is stuffed full of good information about Icelandic culture, the recipes explained in context and detailed well, that even those who've not been to Iceland can get a "taste" of the land. Wonderful!

This book is incredibly refreshing. Here are actual regional recipes accompanied with true accounts of the uses of whey and why whey was used for preserving instead of salt.

I think this book would soar if it were grouped into the health arena. Nanna's work fits nicely with the grassfed, sally fallon, primitive diets.

I had been waiting for this book to be published after reading a thread of hers online many years ago. I purchased it immediately. I am here once again, in hopes that it would be available for my kindle. ( I have been waiting over 3 years...hint, hint)

I wasn't born and raised in Iceland - but my dad was and all of his side of the family still lives in Iceland. Because he didn't cook, much of my food growing up was not traditional Icelandic foods and he had no recipes from his mother or sisters to have my mom cook, so I was thrilled to be able to find a collection of recipes that were specific to Icelandic cooking because while some dishes are very similar to other Scandinavian dishes, there are some that are totally Icelandic and you can't find anywhere else. I looked through this book with my dad and he recalled foods and tastes and holidays.

The recipes themselves are relatively simple to follow although there are occasionally difficult ingredients to find. I particularly enjoyed the history provided with the dishes and that the names of the foods were written in both Icelandic and English. Overall, my only complaint is that I wish there were photos of the finished products, but I can live without it. The book is smaller than most my other cookbooks (about 6x8in?) and hard cover - I had no problems getting it to sit open on the pages I wanted to follow.