North Wild Kitchen: Home Cooking from the Heart of Norway
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Named by Saveur magazine as the 2016 Blog of the Year and Best New Voice, North Wild Kitchen and its author Nevada Berg have become one of the best-known voices of Norwegian cooking around the world. Written from her 17th-century mountain farm in rural Norway, Nevada Berg's blog and Instagram feed are brimming with gorgeous--and achievable--ideas for home cooking and entertaining. Berg is a self-taught cook, and her simple and charming approach focuses on seasonal food prepared without a lot of fuss. With dozens of mouthwatering recipes for Norwegian-inspired dishes, this book features equally enticing photography of the food and the country's landscape. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of Norwegian food culture--foraging, fishing, and farming; hunting, harvesting, and camping; baking, grilling, and frying.
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About this book
North Wild Kitchen is a cookbook by Nevada Berg, an American food writer who lives on a 17th-century mountain farm in rural Norway. Berg is a self-taught cook, and the book draws on her daily life in the Norwegian countryside, where seasonal ingredients and practical preparation guide the kitchen. The recipes are Norwegian-inspired and built around accessible home cooking rather than restaurant technique.
The book is organized around different aspects of Norwegian food culture. Chapters cover foraging, fishing, and farming alongside hunting, harvesting, camping, baking, grilling, and frying. Each section pairs recipes with photography of both the finished dishes and the surrounding landscape. Berg's approach favors simplicity and ingredients tied to the time of year, reflecting a way of eating shaped by climate, terrain, and tradition.
Berg's blog, also called North Wild Kitchen, was named Blog of the Year and Best New Voice by Saveur magazine in 2016. The blog and her Instagram feed built a following before the book's publication, and the cookbook extends that work into a longer format with more recipes and context about how Norwegian food traditions connect to the land.
