Norway

**Please respond with your name,date, and source of your information. ( Family members may be used as long as their relationship to you is noted- ex: grandmother )**

 * What is the name of your home town?**
 * **Narvik (Josh Fisher March 28, 2011, Dylan Edwards)**
 * ** Drøbak, Norway (Sigbjørn Storli (father) April 24, 2014, Lars Storli) **


 * How does your heritage affect the food that you consume in your home?**
 * **At home, we keep the food traditions that Norwegians use at home. Norway's food is mainly based off of seafood dishes and so we eat a lot of fish. (****Josh Fisher March 28, 2011, Dylan Edwards**
 * ** Fish and game is our natural part of our food culture. Dinner is cooked and served everyday and we eat a proper breakfast before we leave the house in the morning. We eat less prefabricated food and unhealthy food. (Sigbjørn Storli ( father ) April 24, 2014, Lars Storli)  **

**What marketing practices does your family use in order to obtain the supplies needed to prepare food from your native country ?**
 * **Since seafood is a large part of any countries diet, it is not very hard to obtain any kinds of seafood we would like. We primarily eat fish such as cod. To get the best quality fish, we sometimes go into the city to a specialty shop.** **(Josh Fisher March 28, 2011, Dylan Edwards)**
 * ** We mainly buy our food from fresh supermarket and some other lager supermarket. Since most of the Norwegian traditional food is fish like salmon and cod, it’s not very hard to find it in American supermarkets. (Sigbjørn Storli ( father ) April 24, 2014, Lars Storli)  **

**Give an example of a holiday tradition in your home that incorporates food into the celebration.**
 * **Although we do not always do it, it is tradition to play jokes on family members as a part of nisse. Usually, people leave out bowls or risgrot or Christmans rice porridge to keep on their good side of the jokers.** **(Josh Fisher March 28, 2011, Dylan Edwards)**
 * **For dinner usually eat the traditional lutefisk. This is a fish dish which is very popular among Norwegians. To prepare it, we have to buy it several days in advance in order to properly prepare it in a solution. It is then cooked and served with sides like potatoes and vegetables.** **(Josh Fisher March 28, 2011, Dylan Edwards)**
 * ** At Christmas we usually eat a special dish from sheep ribs with mashed rutabaga called pinnekjøtt. More than 37% of the population eats this dish for dinner at Christmas Eve. The preparations starts two days in advanced because the meat is dry at salty and has to stay in water for two days. (Sigbjørn Storli ( father ) April 24, 2014, Lars Storli)  **
 * ** Lutefisk is another popular traditional Norwegian dish served at Christmas. It’s a cod that has been pretreated in lye to give it a special taste and jelly-like consistency. It takes 12 days to prepare the lutefisk and is then cooked and served with potatoes and vegetables. (Sigbjørn Storli ( father ) April 24, 2014 Lars Storli)  **

**Provide a family recipe related to your culture. Type the recipe or include a link to your recipe.** Podcast 2011 media type="file" key="Josh Fisher norway .m4a" width="252" height="252" 2014 media type="file" key="Norway.m4a" width="245" height="245"