The colder it is, the harder it is to grow food and the less options and culinary innovation you have. It is what it is.
Danish restaurants have won World’s Best Restaurant 6 times in the past 13 years (with an additional 5 placements in 2nd and 3rd place, combined, since 2009), but granted, that doesn’t say much about Danish cuisine in general 😓
Still, it has to count for something, dammit!
I was in Kopenhagen last week. The bakery stuff is a pure bliss. I falled in love with the kanelstykke 😍
Religion probably played a role too. That line is almost the Protestantism-Catholicism divide. Protestants had to live a sober life and this probably extended to their cuisine. Like the Dutch and British traveled across the world and waged wars for spices and the spices barely entered their gastronomy. All they did was sell the spices to Southern Europe
it was well known that jesus loved plain potatoes with absolutely zero seasoning.
South Korea has similar temperatures to most of the UK and their food is absolutely incredible, we need to find out how they pulled it off
