Norwegian Cuisine - Norway - page 1033

tebær (cloudberries) are highly prized and considered a delicacy. They grow one per stalk
on open swampy ground and in Norway some cloudberry patches are zealously guarded.
Warm cloudberry jam with ice cream is simply fantastic!
Norwegian cheeses have come to international attention as a result of the mild but tasty
Jarlsberg, a white cheese first produced in 1860 on the Jarlsberg estate in Tønsberg.
One scheme worth watching out for in northern Norway is the Arctic Menu (see the
boxed text, Click here ), an attempt by an association of restaurants to revive interest in
local ingredients and recipes.
FOOD IN A TUBE
A Parisian orders a cafe au lait, a Londoner kippers. In New York it might be a bagel,
in Tokyo rice. Comfort food or culture shock, they're all breakfast, and for Norwegi-
ans it comes in a tube.
The question mark at hotel breakfast buffets, and nothing to do with dental hy-
giene, cream cheese and kaviar (sugar-cured and smoked cod roe cream) packaged in
tubes have been Norwegian favourites for decades. There are two especially popular
Norwegian brands: the Trondheim-based Mills, best known for its kaviar, and the
older Kavli in Bergen. A dairy established in 1893, Kavli began exporting cheese to
the US in the early 1920s and launched its first tube of Primula cream cheese in 1924
- quite the ground-breaking event in the cheese-processing world. It now produces
bacon, ham, salami, shrimp, tomato, mexicana and jalapeño flavoured cheeses, all
packaged in the familiar tubes.
Though both spreads are good alone and part of a well-rounded Norwegian frokost
(breakfast), kaviar is especially popular coupled with Norvegia cheese or a few slices
of boiled egg.
Vegetarian & Vegan Food
Norwegians are not the most vegetarian of people. That said, most restaurants offer some
vegetarianoptions.Sometimesthismayjustbeacheese-and-onionomeletteorapastawith
cream sauce, but increasingly you'll find creative salads (although vegans won't appreci-
ate the widespread use of cheese) and a range of crepes or pancakes to add some variety