The Nordic Cookbook: 0000

A wonderful cook book !! Fascinating recpies and easy to follow. 700 pages of gastro fun with everything from the simple to the bizarre. I have used the recipes for the gravlax and the pickled herring and they both worked wonderfully well. After several years of wasted effort trying to get these two things right, I have finally achieved it by following the instructions of Magnus Nilsson. He has certainly triggered an interest in nordic cookery ! A highly recommended book and great value for money. If only his restaurant was closer to the UK !!

One of the most beautifully written and detailed cookbooks I have ever seen. Phaidon is a good publisher of cookbooks so I wasn't surprised but it's definitely my favourite cookbook. It tells you a lot about the context of why dishes are eaten in those countries, something that's extremely important when considering Nordic cuisine and eating habits both now and in the past. Some of the recipes are obviously impractical (I'm not gonna go ferment some shark for my dinner for example) but the majority are doable and delicious. Magnus Nilsson is a genius, if you liked the Chef's Table episode you'll love this!

Bought as present for my husband and he loves it. This is more than a cook book but rather a picture of a culture painted in food! That being said, the recipes he made so far were apparently clear and easy to follow: the results involved the family in experiencing some truly new taste combinations.

As others have said, indeed it's a beautiful and comprehensive book. I can't help but think it could have been a bit less weighty by leaving some things out (e.g. nordics poach eggs the same way the rest of the western world does, so surely we don't need another recipe for that!). The book is riddled with spelling and other editing errors, and some recipes have complete steps missing, which means that both the author, editor and publisher have scrimped on proper proofreading and testing of the recipes before going to print. The bread section is a disappointment, with scant reference to true sourdough methods and the recipes are all yeasted approximations of the the real thing without explaining why. All of that said, it is an achievement, and for the price it sells on amazon I would say it's a good buy.

An excellent cookbook full of variety and traditional scandinavian food. Exquisite combination of cultural information and food recipes, albeit without many pictures. The book is structured well and subdivided into specific sections (i.e. specific meats/fish rather than simply "meat & fish"). While I do not agree with whaling etc, I think it is a shame that the rating of the book is so negatively skewed by the disgruntled animal rights activists.

Lots of recepies to choose from and well layed out. Nice to be able to recreate some of my holiday food and the added bonus of it being cheaper in Amazon

If you have even a slight interest in Nordic cusine, get this. So many options and lots of interest in the different regions. Great book to have.

You shoud be the devoted cook to use this book fully.

My maternal great-grandparents were both from Southern Sweden before they immigrated to America. I'm 3rd generation American and over the generations, some of our Swedish heritage was lost. My grandfather knew how to read and speak Swedish fluently and he cooked and prepared Swedish dishes. However, my mother never learned his mother tongue, but she learned how to prepare some Swedish and Scandinavian dishes. When I was a kid, my mother prepared the dishes that her father taught her like potato and bacon dumplings, which is similar to the Oland-Style Potato and Wheat dumplings "Olandska Kroppkakor pg. 460 in the book and fish cakes with dill sauce similar to the Danish Fish Cakes "Fiskefrikadeller" pg. 226 that were served with potato pancakes. This is a great book that brought me closer to my heritage. There are so many recipes in the book and it includes the region that the recipe is from. A brief history is also included with some of the recipes. The measurements are written in both European and American measurements, so it makes it easier for me to follow the recipes and not have to calculate conversions. Awesome book!! If I made one recipe from this book every day, I would have over 2 years of having a different recipe each day.

Purchased as a gift for a colleague, so I have not used the recipes myself. The book is well constructed and contains an impressive collection of foods and information, I may buy one for myself.

Como todos los libros de Phaidon, está editado de maravilla: bien encuadernado, papel bonito, buen diseño, dos cintas de punto de libro, textos excelentes... Megnus Nilsson es un chef de culto que recoge en este libro lo mejor de la cocina nórdica, con fotografías realizadas por él mismo (lástima que no hay fotos de todos los platos). Genial para renovar el repertorio de cocina con un toque nórdico exquisito

While some ingredient might be difficult to put your hands on (whale meat, etc...), the book gives a complete overview of the cuisine of this part of the world and many recipes are easily achievable (and substitution for other product shouldn't be too difficult). Tried a few and will continue. I particularly like the stories around the recipe, makes the reading much more interesting.

The book is very good, good graphic, good ricetta