Danish Foodways

Where in the world

• Denmark territory

Communities and languages

• Danes community documented

Languages: Danish

What is recorded

• Danish foodways are recorded as a first-class national system within Scandinavian and then Nordic foodways. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian foodways are siblings; none is treated as a variant of another. documented
• Smørrebrød, wienerbrød and New Nordic cooking are each one branch of Danish foodways and none of them is Danish food as such. The everyday kitchen is rye bread, pork, potatoes, dairy and fish. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• part of Scandinavian Foodways documented

  Denmark, Norway and Sweden are Scandinavia.

• related to Baltic Sea Foodways documented
• related to British Foodways documented

  The bacon and butter export trade to Britain from the 1880s shaped Danish pig breeding, curing and dairying for a century.

• related to Dutch Foodways documented

  Dutch farmers were brought to Amager in the 16th century to supply the capital with vegetables and dairy, and the Dutch grain and salt trade ran through the Sound.

• related to Finnish Foodways possible

  ⚠ NORDIC BUT NOT SCANDINAVIAN. The relationship is institutional and regional rather than close culinary kinship.

• related to German Foodways documented

  The only land border, the Schleswig question, Hanseatic trade, and a shared north-German sausage, rye and cabbage repertoire.

• related to Icelandic Foodways documented

  Iceland was under Danish rule until 1944 and under the Danish trade monopoly from 1602 to 1787; Danish baking and Christmas forms entered Iceland by that route.

• related to Norwegian Foodways documented

  Denmark-Norway was one state from 1380 to 1814; Danish was the written language of Norway throughout and the baking traditions are close.

• related to Swedish Foodways documented

  A shared cold table, a shared herring tradition, and Scania — Danish until 1658 — where the food is still recognisably of both.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• influenced Hanseatic Trade Foodways documented
• migrated to Greenlandic Communities in Denmark documented
• originates from Danish-American Foodways documented
• part of Bornholm Foodways documented
• part of Funen Foodways documented
• part of Jutland Foodways documented
• part of Zealand Foodways documented
• related to Faroese Foodways documented

  Part of the Kingdom of Denmark, with a trade monopoly until 1856 — a political and commercial relationship, not a culinary parentage.

• related to Frisian Foodways documented

  North Frisia borders Denmark, the Wadden Sea is shared, and Schleswig changed hands repeatedly.

• related to Greenlandic Foodways documented

  Colonisation from 1721, the royal trade monopoly to 1950, and the Kingdom of Denmark — a political and historical relationship. NOT a culinary parentage.

• related to Icelandic Foodways documented

  Danish rule to 1944 and the trade monopoly of 1602-1787; Danish baking and Christmas forms came by that route.

• related to Norwegian Akevitt documented

  One aquavit family across Scandinavia; the Norwegian distinction is cask ageing.

• related to Norwegian Foodways documented

  Denmark-Norway was one state from 1380 to 1814, Danish was Norway’s written language throughout, and Bokmål descends from it.

• related to Norwegian Herring Foodways documented
• related to Schleswig-Holstein Foodways documented

  A border region with documented food exchange in both directions.

• related to Skåne Foodways documented

  Skåne was Danish until 1658 and the food region still crosses the strait.

• related to Swedish Foodways documented

  A shared cold table and herring tradition, and Skåne, Danish until 1658.

• related to Swedish Herring Foodways documented

Regional cuisines

Dishes

Recipes

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