Tareq Taylor visits the High Coast of Sweden. A perfect destination for both travelers and food lovers, where people are friendly and nothing seems impossible.
Nordic Cookery is a new television series, shown on BBC Lifestyle, exploring the heart and soul of New Nordic Cuisine.
Across twenty episodes, Tareq Taylor travels around the Nordic countries to meet local food producers, chefs and specialists. He heads off the tourist track to experience local cultures through their food, searching out fantastic ingredients, meeting extraordinary people and preparing his own versions of delicious recipes along the way.
Created thousands of years ago, the High Coast in the northern part of Sweden is the highest coast in the world. Tareq sets out to see if he can catch Elmer, the fabled 50 kilo giant salmon of the Ångerman river. He also samples one of the most extreme types of Swedish food, fermented herring.