Tina Nordström's Scandinavian Cooking: Simple Recipes for Home-Style Scandinavian Cuisine Paperback – November 15, 2016

Great modern recipe book using traditional Scandinavian ingredients with modern modifications. The Nordic Cookbook by Magnus Nilsson is great for “old” recipes if that is what you want, but this book is less restrictive. The “Think Like Tina” sections have many useful hints to rein in us more creative folks. The most recipes that I want to try than I have seen in a long time.

I am Swedish, and not only is Tina my new favorite Chef, but my new favorite TV personality.Her recipes have a wide range, from Swedish to American, and retain the classic elements, with her twist.The story of her and her family is enough to buy this book alone, but I love the recipes, as well. I am a Caesar Salad devotee, and her recipe is classic with a few little things that make it better...adding lemon ZEST, and tearing the bread for the croutons. Little things that make a big difference in the end result.And, her TV simple Smoked Trout is my all time favorite fish!By the way...this is a beautiful, large, hardcover book.I will get this for Holiday gifts!

This cookbook is amazing! The recipes are fantastic, with accessible ingredients. Scandinavian cooking is no longer stuck in pickled herring and rye bread. Tina does an amazing job showing how to make great food from all over the world, with a Scandinavian flair!

Disclaimer: I have not tried to cook any of the recipes in this book...yet.For a cookbook titled Scandinavian cooking, there are lot of dishes I usually associate with other cultures for example there is a section devoted to pizza. There is another section on grilling which took me by surprise. Swedish BBQ.Besides the recipes with each and everyone of them pictured (ooh...food porn) there is some cooking tips I think will be useful (blanching with club soda for instance).The only negative I consider is that there are a few ingredients here and there that would be challenging to obtain.

Every recipe impresses me. Looks and seems so simple, yet each dish looks and tastes so complex. I looovveee this book. I use it for everday and special occasions.

Very interesting book. Much more global in its recipes but with a Norse twist that will leave you wanting to try every dish in the book! I especially liked the seafood recipes and the interspersed stories made this book fun to read.

I was seeking complementary instruction to several other Scandinavian cookbooks I own. This book does NOT fill the bill! While I am sure that Ms. Nordstrom is a very vivacious, talented chef, she has left much absent from this book that I understand to be crucial to Scandinavian, and to Swedish cuisine, in particular, to classify it as authentic. I shall return this book for something more appropriate to my needs.

With a title like “Scandinavian Cooking” and a header touting “Simple Recipes for Home-Style Scandinavian Cuisine”, I expected SCANDINAVIAN cuisine.Instead, it’s a jumbled mess of Polynesian, Mexican (recipes for tortillas, tacos and taco spice? Puh-leeese...) French (seriously - beef bourguignon?), Indian, Italian, Thai (Tom kha Gai?), etc.If I had wanted an INTERNATIONAL cookbook I would have ordered one. There’s very little SCANDINAVIAN in this book!I realize the author has been influenced by other cooking styles, and it’s full of pretty self-aggrandizing photos - and that’s fine. But to call this “Scandinavian Cooking” is a HUGE disappointment.

Really enjoyed this and used for a coffee table addition to my collection.

A superb cookbook of Tina's versions of classic Scandinavian dishes, as well as how she would adapt some dishes from the wider world to serve at home.This beautifully-illustrated book is an enjoyable read from cover to cover (very rare in a cookery book these days...) covering her upbringing with her Grandmother (her parents owned and ran a famous spa hotel-restaurant) and the development of her career to become Sweden's #1 female celebrity chef (I recently heard her described as 'Sweden's female Jamie Oliver').The fact that she worked her way up through the cookery world (as a youngster she once cooked in the kitchens at IKEA) gives her cookery writing a real, refreshing credibilty.I first encountered Tina when a Swedish friend gave me the DVDs of her English-language TV series New Scandinavian Cooking (...well worth hunting for, by the way!) This book really reflects her inimitable, bubbly, quirky personality which has made her TV cookery shows so educative, amusing and entertaining.The fact that Tina's first two cookbooks sold a million-plus copies shows how highly her cooking is regarded across Scandinavia. It never ceases to amaze me that she is so well-known across the US and Germany from her previous five books but so little-known here.This super book deserves to bring her to the attention of a much wider audience in the UK and is certainly one book which will stay out in my kitchen to be used and not relegated to the sit on a bookshelf.

Great book, bought as a present, but lots of interesting recipes & ideas.

Great ideas. Thank you

It is like an invitation to her personal kitchen making comfort food in relaxing manner