The Scandi Kitchen: Simple, delicious dishes for any occasion

by Brontë Aurell

This accessible and entertaining introduction to Scandinavian food contains over 80 recipes to try at home, developed by Bronte Aurell, owner of the popular ScandiKitchen Cafe in London's bustling West End.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food, Scandinavian Literature, Reference, Food and Drink

290 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 10, 2015

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

[Jeffrey Caston · Rating 5 out of 5]

This a great cookbook and I highly recommend for anyone trying to explore accessible and doable Scandinavian recipes and dishes outside of Scandinavia. The recipes look straightforward. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get the stuff I need for the OH-I-GOTTA-MAKE-THAT-ONE-RIGHT-NOW! pile of recipes I marked. I just want to make my own seedy flatbread. Though I haven't quite worked out where I'm going to get buckwheat flower. Ah, now worries. Sounds like a Sunday problem to me.

The photographs inside are stunning. It made me seriously tempted to call in sick tomorrow, jump on a plane, and get over to this part of the world, like IMMEDIATELY!

[J.H. Moncrieff · Rating 5 out of 5]

I ordered more of Aurell's books after finishing Scandikitchen Christmas, and am not disappointed. This book covers more Scandinavian holidays, including Midsommer, and the traditions of fika and hygge. A lot of the food sounds delicious, but getting a hold of the ingredients will be a challenge! I so wish Scandikitchen delivered to North American!

I may just have to add a trip to this cafe to my UK itinerary. It sounds so wonderful.

Will update when I try some recipes, but there's so many amazing-sounding ones to try. Once again, this is an absolutely gorgeous, keepsake cookbook--the design and photography are breathtaking, and the writing is great as well. Highly recommend the Scandikitchen series for anyone interested in Scandinavian food, or anyone who loves to read cookbooks like novels.

[Tessa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really beautiful cookbook. Lots of photographs and information boxes. The food all looks delicious, though some ingredients will definitely be a challenge to find for some people (they would be for me, even living in an area settled by Scandinavian immigrants). This book reminded me how much I love open-face sandwiches. The recipe instructions are a little difficult to read, but I appreciated how they included measurements in both grams and cups/teaspoons ect.

Recipes made:
Cardamom twists--my husband ate all of them and then asked me for more lol. Really delicious. I want to see if I can adapt this to a sourdough recipe....

[Juli Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

To-the-point, fresh, and simple.

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exploring my food heritage

[Natalia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most of them are simple recipes with easily available ingredients (mostly because some ingredients are difficult to find even in Europe, e.g., fish or ingredients for rye breads), but the flavor combinations are original and fun. Everything that we have baked so far turned out great, so the recipes are probably well-tested and therefore reliable even for home cooks.