Smorrebrod: Scandinavian Open Sandwiches: More than 50 recipes, from traditional to modern

by Brontë Aurell

Genres: Cookbooks

144 pages, Hardcover

Published April 8, 2025

About the author

I’m Brontë, a food writer and co-founder of ScandiKitchen, a café, grocery shop, online store and wholesale business. After I moved from Denmark to the UK and started a career in finance, I quickly realised that wasn’t for me. After some happy years working for Innocent drinks, I launched ScandiKitchen with my Swedish husband Jonas on 10th July 2007 – and gave birth to our first child a few hours later, just for an additional challenge.

So far, I’ve authored a few cookery books and published my own guide to hygge after an essay I wrote about it caused a mini media controversy. My mostly non-food book Nørth: How To Live Scandinavian is a humorous, but incisive look at what it means to be Scandinavian. I also manage to get out of the kitchen to appear on TV and radio as a cook, guest chef and talking about life as an entrepreneur, as well as helping with brand and recipe development for various companies. I created the #proudimmigrant movement in 2014 as a response to my own experiences as someone from overseas living and working in the UK.

Reviews

[Jenevieve Hornsby · Rating 5 out of 5]

The photography in this cookbook is delightful and nearly every recipe jumps off the page making you want to try it. How anyone could give this less than four or five stars is baffling to me. Maybe they are confused with a different book. The recipes look great and I hope to be able to find enough of the ingredients to try some at home.

[Elizabeth Judd Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun recipes for everything from the sandwiches to the bread and dressings used for them.

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fabulous. New years eve sorted.