{"id":1305,"date":"2024-01-02T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2024-01-02T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:04:22","slug":"rotten-fish-anyone-norways-weird-and-wonderful-christmas-food-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Rotten fish, anyone? Norway&#8217;s weird and wonderful Christmas food traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rakfisk-WIkipedia.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rakfisk-WIkipedia-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1307\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333;width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rakfisk-WIkipedia-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rakfisk-WIkipedia-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rakfisk-WIkipedia-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rakfisk-WIkipedia-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rakfisk-WIkipedia.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rakfisk on lefse with sour cream (Photo: Wikipedia)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norwegians like to think they invented Christmas \u2013 the word Yule is old Norse for the marking of mid-winter, celebrations that pre-date the birth of Christ. Food was and remains central to Norwegian Yule traditions, and in this report for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-21-december-2023\/audio-67792954\">Deutsche Welle&#8217;s Inside Europe<\/a>, I look at how some of the dishes still hark back to long before refrigeration was an option. Oh\u00a0\u2013 and the gusto with which Norwegians celebrate can also remind you of Viking times\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BEVANGER-Norway-Christmas.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rakfisk on lefse with sour cream (Photo: Wikipedia) Norwegians like to think they invented Christmas \u2013 the word Yule is old Norse for the marking of mid-winter, celebrations that pre-date the birth of Christ. Food was and remains central to Norwegian Yule traditions, and in this report for Deutsche Welle&#8217;s Inside Europe, I look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}