Food

Arctic gardening

Greenland is cold. You probably know that. One consequence is that almost all fruit and vegetables are shipped from Denmark. This means you need to be careful making your selection at the supermarket. A single aubergine might cost you eight dollars. Although the range and quality is still probably better than you might expect, visiting …

“We ate the inside!”

There are many Faroese folk who live in Greenland and our family are friends with some of these lovely people. The Faroese have many wonderful attributes, but their cuisine is perhaps not their highest cultural achievement. Faroese food could best be described as “challenging”, though to be fair I can attest that it does have …

Dinner on ice

Some years ago I was on a work trip, travelling around the coast and fjords of South Greenland on a small ship. Together with eleven other passengers from several European countries we enjoyed the stunning environment – monolithic cliffed peaks rising straight from the sea, icy grey bergs drifting in the glittering blue. I felt …