WAIE (whatamieating.com)


This is the searchable online international food dictionary with – so far – 63,471 terms in 303 languages plus 13,340 plurals.

Just type in the word that you're looking for and press enter or click on search. There are other types of search; see search help for more information.

Most Recent Upload: 14th July 2010

I have been busy with other things just recently but have now managed another upload. I have had the great good fortune to make the acquaintance of Babette Blaedel-Flajsner who has started to do some really high quality work on my Danish and Swedish lists. I *love* it when good people add to my work and brush it into really good shape. Also Susi Arendt has kindly looked at German plural terms for me and I am slowly adding these. Many thanks to Babette and Susi.

I am just starting work on developing some apps so people can carry the largest food dictionaries in about 60 different languages with them wherever they go. I'll keep people posted as to how this goes.

I have also just met David Lyne-Gordon on-line. He has written a great work on edible plants and, to my great excitement, is keen to help out with some of my entries concerning the more uncommon plants. It is lovely for me to get help in this way.

Welcome to the new people who have joined the Facebook group. (Facebook group) If you would like to join, you will get occasional updates about what has been added to to the site.

I am still working on improvements to the site. This is a long job and entry of new food terms will happen much more quickly once this structural work is done.

Please do let us know if you see any errors, broken links or pictures. Some of the changes I am making may lead to this happening and it would help if you could let us know.

Description: Despite the fact that Norway is a great maritime nation and heavily dependent on its fisheries, by no means is fish the only food on offer. It is true that cured salmon (gravlaks) is a popular dish, as are fish balls (fiskeboller) and sursild (pickled herring) among many other herring dishes. For special occasions there is the rather difficult to acquire taste of lutefisk. However, you will also find boiled, smoked sheep's heads (smalahoved), dried meat, brined and cured (spekekjøtt) and pork roll (nakkerull). Gammel ost is a pungent aged cheese, often served as part of the koldtbord, the self-service buffet that is Norway's answer to smörgåsbord. The fresh fish is wonderful and abundant as, in season, are berries. Berries are rendered sweet not by warmth, but by lengthy exposure to sunlight. This is why the berries of the Nordic countries are so glorious and Norway is no exception. The Arctic cloudberry (multer) is a good example. To eat at feasts is bløtkake, a special layer cake with berries and liqueur.

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So far, I have made some 2,000 entries in Norwegian, but you can bet that the item you are searching for is not among them. If this is the case, please e-mail queries@whatamieating.com and I will try to respond with the information you need.