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Norway’s brown cheese Brunost is a caramel-flavoured local secret

When a food is described as a national dish, rarely eaten outside its home nation, alarm bells start ringing. So it was for me on a recent trip to Oslo, Norway where I discovered Brunost, or brown cheese. In this interconnected world of international cusine, why hasn’t this particular food or ingredient escaped its national […]

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Seasoning ending for Norwegian Skrei, cook with Michel Roux Jr

With only a few weeks left of the Skrie (a firm, fleshy white fish from the cod family) season, here’s a recipe created by chef Michel Roux jr (pictured below). Caught straight from the cold, clear waters of northern Norway, the Skreiseason runs between January and April. The cod spends most of its life in the […]

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