Cookbook Profile: Kitchen of Light

Kitchen of Light
The New Scandinavian Cooking

by Andreas Viestad

Kitchen of Light

Andreas Viestad is Norway's premier food columnist, a gifted cook, and a charming ambassador from the Land of the Midnight Sun. In Kitchen of Light he introduces us to his Norway—taking us fishing for cod, halibut, and salmon; gathering chanterelles, porcini, and wild berries; offering recipes that emphasize simple, fresh, and natural ingredients, whose flavors need little embellishment to create elegant and impressive dishes.

Through a variety of personal anecdotes and flavorful recipes, Viestad shares this philosophy of nature as he shows us the best way to cure gravlaks, make our own butter, prepare a midsummer night's feast of poached salmon, even how to flambé’ a pork tenderloin with Scandinavia's favorite spirit—Aquavit.

This inspired cookbook companion to the public television series New Scandinavian Cooking with Andreas Viestad will transport home cooks and armchair travelers alike.

About the Author

Andreas Viestad is one of Norway's best-known food writers. He has a weekly food column in Norway's Dagbladet newspaper and is the host of the American public television series New Scandinavian Cooking with Andreas Viestad. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and Oslo, Norway. This is his first cookbook to be published in the United States.

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Kitchen of Light
The New Scandinavian Cooking
by Andreas Viestad
Photographs by Mette Randem
Artisan
288 pages; $35.00
ISBN: 1579652166
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