Danish Foraging Foodways

Specialised

Mushrooms in the beech woods — ceps, chanterelles and the rest; wild garlic; nettles, sorrel, ground elder and other spring greens; beach plants on the salt marsh — sea kale, samphire, sea buckthorn; elderflower; rose hips; hazelnuts; and seaweed on both coasts. Foraging was an ordinary household activity, then largely lapsed, and was deliberately revived from the 2000s as part of New Nordic practice. ⚠ NOT AN IDENTIFICATION GUIDE: several Danish fungi are lethal.