February is the coldest month, and February in Denmark is about as bleak as it gets—until I reach Finland. Looking at the desolate fields near Lammefjorden outside Copenhagen, at first I don't see much to eat. But Soren Wiuff, a vegetable farmer, is digging up crosnes, tiny curlicue-shaped, artichoke-flavored roots, with his bare hands. A Danish TV crew is taking close-ups of my shoes punching through the frozen mud crust. It's hard to say which they find more entertaining: the idea that someone would visit a root-vegetable farm in Prada heels or that anyone would travel to the Nordic region in...
Where The Wild Things Are
Foraged native foods are the latest haute cuisine craze in Nordic countries like Finland and Denmark, where award-winning chefs are going into the woods to dig up an earthy new taste
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