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New Scandinavian Cooking
Packed School Lunch
Season 9
Episode 904
Every day for lunch, whether at school, at work, or hiking outdoors, Norwegians everywhere unwrap the same sandwich. Andreas heads to the beautiful ski town of Geilo in Eastern Norway to investigate the packed lunch Norwegians eat every day on the run—identical, plain, bland open-faced sandwiches called matpakke—and what this sandwich reveals about the culture of modern Norway.
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Visit sights along the Telemark canal, which unites Norway's coast and mountains.