Culinary traditions in Middle Earth

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by JennyHallu

Nordic, really, which isn't quite the same thing, but I don't really know how deep the differences run. I know we have some BDers from both Nordic and Slavic areas of Europe, perhaps we should kidnap them for their input. You yourself aren't that far from there, Nogrod. (I don't think, my geography sucks.)

Not that far at all...

I would see the Beornings eating in quite a Nordic style (even though Nordic palate is having lots of meat in it because of the cold climate - we would just have to exclude them).

We finns might be quite near the dwarves then - with our "brothers" in Hungary (getting the spices from there), and of course the russians?

Of course we finns share half (or a bit more) with overall Nordic (Scandinavian) kitchen, but we have also a wealth of a more eastern traditions in it.

So Scandinavian food is not slavic as such, but Finland is a place where these traditions clearly meet.