Submitted by Samantha Jennings on the 2024 Spring program in Copenhagen, Denmark…
While I am participating in the DIS Copenhagen Program in Copenhagen, Denmark I am living in the Culinary Living and Learning Community. Each week in this LLC, me and my fellow flatmates join together with other apartments in our building as well as a local chef to cook and enjoy community dinners. This week we learned how warm spices, like coriander, cloves, and cinnamon, are used in traditional winter Danish cuisine. We prepared butternut squash soup with warm spices and coconut, pan-fried bread with herbs and black pepper, and a Vietnamese salad with carrot and mint to enjoy as a large group. I love learning more about Danish cuisine by actually getting the chance to prepare it, but by far my favorite part of the process is to eat the food that we prepared with the friends that I made along the way! (Submitted on February 4, 2024)