Tareq Taylor's Nordic Cookery

In this episode, Tareq visits Lund, a thousand-year old city in southern Sweden. Lund is surrounded by the richest farmland in the country, and we explore nearby islands and meet entrepreneurs making highly-regarded local products.

Tareq sails out to Bornholm, a Danish island close to southern tip of Sweden. The islanders are fiercely self-sufficient and this attitude reflects in the huge number of food producers making products that are sold both locally and internationally.

Far above the Arctic Circle, Tareq explores the wild country around Jokkmokk. Here, the Sami people lived from what the land provides for thousands of years. This wild cuisine is as extreme as the weather here.

For hundreds of years, Åland’s shipping fleet was the envy of navies around the world, and their sea trade was encouraged by the seafood, grains and fruits that thrive on these islands. Tareq prepares recipes to reflect Åland’s unique cuisine.

Tareq is in his hometown of Malmö – Sweden’s third largest city. The food scene here is inspired by the traditional seafood dishes and the large immigrant population whose recipes have given Malmö a new energy.

Tareq takes a late autumn trip along Finland’s southern coast. He stops in the capital Helsinki to see how the city's food culture is about to be discovered by the rest of the world, and dives into the freezing waters around Ekenäs.

Tareq arrives in Kiruna, over 200km north of the Arctic Circle. With the weather getting down to -30C, Tareq takes part in snow picnics, firing up the smoker, and using snow and ice as part of the recipes he prepares.

Surrounded by some of the most beautiful landscapes in northern Europe, Bergen has become a centre for the finest seafood in northern Europe. Tareq heads into this winter wonderland to see the curious cuisine that has developed in western Norway.