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Before refrigeration, before global supply chains, before the supermarket — Norwegian coastal communities developed a food culture built entirely around what the land.
Norwegian painting produced, in Edvard Munch, one of the founding figures of European Expressionism.
The Bygdøy peninsula in western Oslo contains what is probably the greatest concentration of preserved historic Viking ships.
In 2004, a group of chefs published a manifesto that changed how the world understood Nordic food.
Oslo has a higher density of public sculpture than almost any comparable city. Much of it is concentrated in Vigeland Park, the largest sculpture installation by a single artist in the world.
The cold waters of the North Atlantic are exceptionally productive. The diet that Norwegian coastal communities developed around their harvest.