Danish Food History

Historical period

A framework: Neolithic farming and the shell middens of the Ertebølle coast; Bronze and Iron Age agriculture; the Viking Age, with its trade and its bog and grave evidence; medieval Denmark, the Scania herring market and the Sound Dues; the Reformation of 1536 and the end of the fasting calendar; the loss of Scania in 1658 and of Norway in 1814; the agricultural reforms and the end of villeinage in 1788; the loss of Schleswig in 1864 and the heath reclamation that answered it; the cooperative dairies and bacon factories from 1882 and the British export market; the two world wars and the rationing of the second; the postwar welfare state, the school milk scheme and the public canteen; industrial food; and the New Nordic turn from 2003.