Popular Iceland dishes
The cuisine of Iceland has been evolving considerably during recent decades, due to the growing popularity of different foods. While vegetarian diets are generally harder to come by, there are a reasonable number of vegetarian restaurants located in the Iceland capital, Reykjavík. Some of the most common dishes include, fish, smoked lamb sausage and smoked lamb. Specialities include the harðfiskur, which consists of dried pieces of fish usually eaten with butter as a snack and an ideal combination with coleslaw. Meanwhile, the Slátur, which is made of a sheep sausage known as lifrarpylsa and blóðmör, a similar sausage mixed with sheep blood.
The country is also renowned for the quality of its whale meat, being one of the few locations on the globe where people can eat Minke whale. The history of whaling has a strong presence in Icelandic culture, however in more recent years it has developed into a rather more controversial subject with the rise of the Internet and email marketing for environmental activists. Despite this, most restaurants sell whale meat, particularly establishments that cater for the tourism industry.
Meanwhile, Þorri season, which takes place from the end of January to the beginning of February, is a time when much of the Icelandic population eats traditional national cusine containing shark cubes, head cheese, sheep fat and even pickled ram testicles. Many people who are invited to a Þorrablót will be able to refuse certain dishes, requesting a more ‘normal'dish if preferred! Tourists to the country should not be afraid to do this, particularly as a significant percentage of the population tends to avoid the slightly more ‘unpalatable'dishes.
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