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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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Andreas Viestad visits mid-Norway's fish banks and prepares a dish with native seafood.
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Travel along the west coast of Norway, settled around rich herring fisheries.
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Follow the codfish from the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway to the table in Italy.
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Travel to Røros, one of the coldest places in Norway and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Host Andreas Viestad visits Blindleia, a favorite holiday destination in Southern Norway.
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Andreas visits the island of Spitsbergen in the northernmost inhabited place in the world.
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Andreas visits the coastline of Helgeland, where halibut makes its home.
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Andreas visits Rygge, the “vegetable garden” of southeastern Norway.
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Danish chef Claus Meyer joins Andreas in Ribe, the oldest town in Scandinavia.
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Andreas travels through the Southwestern Norway during the annual sheep gathering.
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Andreas visits the southern Norwegian resort town of Kristiansand.