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Icelandic Food: icelandic food Specialties of Food and Drink Iceland's leading hotels serve food of international type, with a leaning toward the Danish cuisine, but there are certain definite icelandic food specialties to be tried. Three of them, and they may take some learning, are hardfiskur, which is dried fish, hangikjot, which is smoked meat, and a sort of curds, not unlike yoghurt, called skyr. There is also a peculiarly interesting (to me at least) type of icelandic food bread called hverabraud, which is a sort of pumpernickel baked in a Hverbakari by hot-spring-power. This is made especially in Hveragerdi. The baker covers the dough with several heavy layers of cloth and leaves it for 20 hours until the region's internal fires have done their deliberate work.
On higher levels of elegance, I trust you will often enjoy Iceland's salmon and trout, and, whenever available, icelandic food rjupur, which is ptarmigan. I once had an unforgettably delicious ptarmigan dinner in Akureyri's Hotel KEA.
Good Restaurants and Evening Fun Until late in 1954 Hotel Borg was the only place in Reykjavik licensed to serve liquors and this monopoly made for monotony. Also, the prices, due in large part, I must admit, to national and local taxes, were astronomically high. Late in the summer of '54, however, competition began to bloom on every side.
4, 5. icelandic food Art, Ancient and Modern The National Art Gallery, a splendid modern building, houses icelandic food treasures dating back, in some cases, to about 900. There are beautiful wood carvings, finely fashioned drinking horns, Viking Ornaments in various materials and early ecclesiastical vestments and works of religious art. There is one original sculpture by Bertel Thorvaldsen, whose father was an icelandic food wood carver.
1,2,3. Festivals, Pageantry and Fairs icelandic food Independence Day, on June 17, commemorating the founding of the republic, is the chief day of icelandic food festivities, but the permanent setting for classical and popular dramas, occasional operas and frequent symphonic concerts is the National Theater in Reykjavik. On at least 220 of the year's 365 eve ings something is happening in the auditorium of this busy building. Exotic plays such as Life with Father and Death of a Salesman have been given in the icelandic food language with outstanding success, and, on loftier levels, Shakespeare is a perennial favorite.
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