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Bornholm Foodways

Island

The granite island in the Baltic, 135 km east of the rest of the country and closer to Sweden and Poland — which is why its food is its own. SMOKED HERRING above all, from the round-chimneyed røgerier that are the island’s signature building, eaten as "Sol over Gudhjem" with raw egg yolk, radish and chives on rye. Also: Bornholm’s own dialect, fig trees and mulberries in the mild climate, rapeseed and rye, dairy, and since the 2000s a deliberate regional food movement with a food academy, distillery, chocolatier and mills.

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Communities and languages

  • Bornholmers community documented

Languages: Danish

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