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record a city on the cusp of the arctic circle and often called one of the most pristine graphically striking places on earth but beyond the classiest and volcanoes liason intriguing story of survival that's beautifully captured in icelandic cuisine. a mirror of society it brings us together traces divergent histories and open some new futures i'm on a journey to meet food lovers around the world and get the inside track the best cities through the food they love.

reykjavik is the northernmost capital city in the world settled by norms arriving by some. it's very remoteness has forced people to listen to this surroundings and go see the chance to stay in line. iceland was established as a republican might. forty four and rapidly. too rapidly some would say in two thousand and eight its banking system imploded the cards lost its value people lost life the hurts. so i mean treat to meet one man who despite starting his restaurant at what seemed like the worst possible time managed to crisis into opportunity.

good never called just listen is the owner of dill his restaurant is credited with pioneering the use of no peace austin greedy and which has helped to revitalize traditional food production. time to story about dill. so we open a bill this is two thousand and seven we had little just. started working on our own project. when the crisis hit the country and we kind of . you could say we could we could can scare. him so the other investors the jobs of the walking and we were kind of alone there and we were going to have like a full blown kitchen with a whole lot of chefs and the same verse from the server but we just had to train a flick change the whole thing and make you fine dining. on the new way we

actually ended up starting the two of us. we had no employees and we literally we worked like this twenty four seventh's. how do you survive that thing either it was because we actually millet's to serve really nice well flavored food. and good service or it was just pure luck. well a little cyan what is the inspiration for your restaurant now we started up like going for the iceland to get greedy and looking up whatever we could actually find and after a certain time we felt a little bit like the box was closing and that we needed something more so i started digging into like old recipes sometimes an up specific method on how to make of this or that.

and that kind of inspired me a whole lot a lot of new plates as well that inspired me to go out there and look for producers up in the countryside that maybe were doing something that. the birds like a kind of old school or something that were done back in the days. for example how albert is making his. hello this is caught back along in my area there were about thirty produce source back a lot of these all the way. this. but now i'm the only one left the smaller ones has been bought by big oil companies some have gone bankrupt . if you will to live and tell me how likely been fishing i'm sixty years old i started to tell you it's old i see working and as

a profession militiaman fifteen years old. how have you managed to survive this has been difficult and i have been many times on on. on the brink of. bankruptcy you know but i vow to do this this is the only thing i know all the doors all i will continue as long as i can stand. i'm so happy with goodnight and many others here to pay respect they're all matter how we produce it you know i produce it there all day is my grandfather taught my father and my father told me and and i'm teaching my grandchildren now. most of all the hope that i did something right in something good and that people are now trying to do immoral for foraging for trying to find out more producers that are making something really beautiful happening here in iceland.

the land of the midnight sun iceland has around twenty one hours of daylight at the height of summer just in the depths of winter. the landscape of this terrain mess mariah's is majestic. otherworldly and unforgiving. the natural vegetation provided little five would thus creating a unique problem. beyond the challenges of hunting gathering and foraging iceland is needed a source of heat to cook their food. they didn't have to. kill the tea out. on the back i had.

ok she had to. get. here tell. me help you out of here bury it just so and how long does it begin here at live a good look at him and. so do a lot of people this week. mommy get. back up. the road together we all think you need to blow him up but i am with pres group but what is the size of them here. maybe it smells good here.

lifted despite some. york. ok if i have a has about someone who's recipe is this my harmony. through soft ones. today many of the traditional icelandic delicacies including good football can be found in reykjavik scoreless for. a sugar rush test ok they've been cooped and chauffeured away milk for

about half a year. it gives them shelf life. in the old days people found out that by putting food into the way that they would it chief during the winter. so after lowering their animals they would put a lot of things in the way milk. and i needed during one else i strike your shop the fermented shark. smoked salmon and try to shine a trout she don't say so here's a woody schmoke show thank you. that's one taste that you know what you know may get around the walls but if you are still smoking if they have it and this is the dung trying to shut down you say yes indeed older days we cut down on trees and the farmers they had only one way to heat up their houses which was to take

a dump from the sheep after the winter they dried during the summertime and then they would burn it the next with thirty to heat up their houses and of course cook their food should was always done sort of indicate you narea. then they would start hanging up each fish different things in there for drying and for smoking and of course found it was a perfect way of storing food smoking it sure we've you know chapter tradition you know i should prefer this subject but leave it to a. tourism

is one of the sectors that's helped lift iceland out of his financial doldrums and traditional delicacies no packaged and marketed with visitors to. a low logan get this thank you i really like your shop thank you very much how long has it been around it's nearly hundred years what would have sold a hundred years ago for selling. in iceland that was so good selling some for goods in the time we were very poor and it's tough for small if you will and then it was fairly hard for the owners to keep this up in the same but we have changed it to more a better things from circulates. swords how to fish good for the tourists how to fish good in the right fish very popular you want to try. what maybe you

were not you know is it you know as a snotty you know your taste just like it is to very healthy. you know. it's very there's a lot of icelandic goods like this gift and this is what people live on in their. oh. thank you thank you for your time. high in protein and low in fat skinny is a real good like cheese that's vital to the dairy industry. my name is a good one and i'm not there if i'm not in iceland i'm braced up on a farm muster kit we have about fiona fifty thousand liters of milk and you. must be nice under the change to set the skinhead good as you go skeet of us made from him maybe you could with cream to where you were the early days you used the cream as a currency skin has basically three steps past it as the main form and up to eight

to five degrees half an hour then you cool it down to four reeds you take a small part of your skin from last time you steer it in some of the fresh milk you just pasteurized then you start the cooling process. you cool it down to around twenty degrees in maybe three hours afterwards you cool it down to around six seven degrees you take their course the mixing and put it into the bags the barracks printed on tray on their way with drain off. and you would have this left and that in the bag and it's ready to consume. anybody can make spirit yes but you have to have high quality icelandic meek. and askia catches them why do the market share abroad it's evolved into something of a damn shame how many treasure. planet

. iceland has a population of three hundred and thirty thousand small but growing and increasingly from migration. in the past decade people from more than one hundred forty countries have received citizenship yeah national pride is strong seen even in the clothing of these only in iceland yes by vents by hand. and agreement has sniffed it for centuries and it's about fifteen years since we started it will send it to a tourist and fool us both that this is a trick or not but this and the look what they say you know about the science and what makes it the local pizza it's the icelandic rule it's what especially if it's from the icelandic soup that's been really been here for centuries and i used to

say the icelandic see this saved us we ate it and three. and the skin to keep the war. in iraq. interesting seems that sheep are as important as fish in the story of icelandic survival. soli thomas dot here is a politician and a leading voice for women's issues she's also a massive foodie who enjoy sharing the cuisine and culture of home. so so they want to we cooking today. lamb lamb lack actually i think at

this most popular meat but the so tell me when you were growing up what was a typical new for you boiled fish with potatoes we ate fish six days a week and then on sundays at those levels only with salt potatoes maybe some can cut it or something but we didn't have many her store you know but staples from around the world so it was one example not minced taste but it was the sunday steak and it was always on sunday program of the church you know and loans for the families at the i don't see you making something risky yes well guess they make all kinds of things with skewer make this search me that the bread cursed and making sauce out of it but the love but a silicone garlic honey salt oil and then we make this sauce with the meat that's a little bit you know it's france so all this produce has a lot of it do they grow nicely this is icelandic yes this is all aslant that

they're making and then greenhouses they are very lucky here because we have this geothermal heat you know it's green on the to the news that the other money to warm up the green houses and cheap eats where it is just us and we are very lucky that our the vice we would not have all this but suppose. this is really because i mean i love the flavor it's a noisy good immense amount of a single thank you. other log with politics here yes if you convert credit to top the rest of the word there are a lot of them and then politics but that i have never been as many women as men at the parliament and they still have a long way to go but yet i think at this it's quite good to be a woman and i slam we have a good belfort system we have good sex at

a case and we have this. pretty long parent to leave. may have caught hunt's care system so it is not that our smart spurted on them and at home i said this for women in many other countries but still women are doing more work at home than men. just interim chief strikes a little bit ask you about the financial crisis how did it get so bad i think mostly it was because people got too creepy and not not the whole society but the people who ruled and it worse you know lack of. you know what to assess social responsibility that brought the center this i have this hope that it really learned something from us and the theater really you know

have to be more diverse we have to embrace that diversity they have to be you know more. you have been more nice to each other. and most responsible. signs of recovery everywhere business is booming public debt is on a downward trend and inflation is no. the international monetary fund calls iceland a success story of getting back on its feet while preserving its prized wealth and model. the economy may be gaining steam but it's still

a tough story for iceland's youth to whom unemployment has averaged around ten percent over the past twelve years. that has a detent some of those studying the working abroad from returning home bringing with them and again and optimism. hi there bill i'm generally very nice and it's good to meet you. all with the goal it's easier all right i'll do that we're going we're going to go to where the main street the reykjavik so you've just moved from yeah. i just moved back here to downtown reykjavik what's changed from when you left will not the weather for one. always cold but of business wise. things have changed. when i had to

whoa yes there were things are bouncing back when i left you hardly saw any building cranes you didn't see the lights and i was storm certainly didn't see all this people but now we're gone. down the main street is really busy it's busy we're seeing new cafes opening up new restaurants and well much more right through them before let's go with three zero. live. with my friend gerald sam says the sisters are progress they're really lovely to me here lastly. this is turkish restaurants it was more than ten years ago but my father knew his business partners and they opened the first camp up in i sed it was something quite new it wasn't so long time ago that turkish coffee and for but of our or turkey schooled in general we had to go to turkey and i mean i remember these trips that i came back with suitcases of own lives of cheese of

you know interesting spices and things like this now i've come here i go to the turkish supermarkets to buy my things. and i go home and cook it myself i mean this is something that just changed in the last recent years i went to the middle east a couple years ago and i want to give back i felt like i needed to explain the falafel to everyone here because now of course you know rafa were first and my father is from turkey he came here i would say more than thirty years ago my mother is icelandic it's quite an interesting set up to grow often. in the last three years i mean immigration has been growing probably you would have talked about multiculturalism ten years ago so this is quite new a new phenomenon to iceland and something culture both of you are young professionals where do you see your country having well things would have to change

for young people to be able to build a future here the problem is the lack of jobs for graduates a new country a by your. own home here even though it would be cheaper than to rent food prices are higher here. it's so many things so you just came back what's what's next what's the next step from. you sound like my mother when you're in a subsequent. years ago. what are you going to do next fall i'm optimistic i think we are bouncing back we are small economy worst one nation where every every working productive citizen matter so very often it is often not the hard to find what may be called the rest of the euro say it's a matter of money finding what you are doing what you want to do it you inspired to

do and what do you want to do. on the whaleboat for hiring and. accustomed to isolation in this have gained a knack for overcoming the seemingly insurmountable. lessons from the past placing feet in what lies ahead. iceland may have grabbed headlines because of its recent economic woes but people here see those these oprah i return to the roots of these survived and nourished more resilient and one of the most tangible outcomes of that is modern icelandic cuisine a good contemporary and sustainable which just integrate giving into one didn't show the city until next time boys they see in iceland it just blessed. the way when this idea popped into it when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief

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