Welcome To Iceland’s Hottest Food!
Carol Taylor has a great website that looks at the world’s food and culture from “A -Z”, always terrific and insightful.
Well, Carol has done it this time: a wild wild trip through Iceland’s unique cuisine, everything from fresh seafood to cured shark!
Have Some Hákarl!
Carol has shared some cultural dishes from Iceland that are fascinating, like Hakarl!
Hákarl (an abbreviation of kæstur hákarl [ˈcʰaistʏr ˈhauːˌkʰa(r)tl̥]), referred to as fermented shark in English, is a national dish of Iceland consisting of Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months.
That’s just the tip of the “Ice” berg! See much more at Carol’s story here:
Carol’s series dives deep into all of the food and culture around the world and I love it…see some of her great Hungarian food here!
I love all of Carol’s posts, but this series is my favorite!
My wife and I were in Budapest once and had a blast eating the food!
I LOVED LOVED LOVED this Hungarian dish – click here to join me in Budapest’s great market hall and see what it is!
Some of you may know that Alex and I took the Orient Express train from Venice to Paris for our 20th anniversary, and one unique part was taking an old-fashioned locomotive into Budapest…I decided to film us by leaning outside our window and then this happened:
It was worth the smoky welcome as we explored all parts of the city – you can see our visit to the legendary Gellert Spa here!
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Bravo Carol for your terrific “A-Z” of world cuisine! If you like the story, share it with friends on social media! Thanks!
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Bite! Eat! Repeat! 
So are you up for the sheep’s head John?
Well, I have said that I would try anything, and have indeed had a goat’s head soup once…that said, that “fermented shark” sounds inedible to me, so it may be a “poke at and movie on” type of situation for me!
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Food from Iceland! I’m going over right away.
Robbie, my wife and I were interested in going there…someday, we still have a safari to take!
Lots to look forward too 💛
Thank you, Robbie see you there x
Clara and Eric tried the shark in Iceland! Mostly Clara wanted to but she challenged Eric to match her. Let me know if you want to see the video of her reaction and description sometime!
I would love to see that! Anything “fermented” raises many many many red flags for me!
Thank you for the reblog ,John much appreciated 🙂
i love carol’s blog and i always learn so much from her!
As I mentioned to Carol, rotting shark is way down my list of food adventures!
Best wishes, Pete.