WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE SUNDAY LUNCH?
Trine Hahnemann is a Danish food writer and chef, and owner of organic food emporium Hahnemanns Køkken in Copenhagen – a bakery, deli, shop and cookery school. She champions sustainable cooking and has written 10 cookbooks, including Scandinavian Green. Trine has appeared on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen and BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme and Woman’s Hour. Her new cookbook, Simply Scandinavian (£27, Quadrille Publishing) is out now.
Trine says: “Saturday evening is the main time to get together, and Saturday lunch we have smørrebrød (open sandwiches on rye bread). Smørrebrød restaurants are always fully booked on Saturdays, then closed on Sundays. Sundays are more for long walks, afternoon coffee and cake.”
I never went to cooking school, I’ve cooked since I was a child and just learned through experience. I had a tumultuous upbringing and for a large part of it, lived in a commune, where cooking and eating together was essential. I also went to a small hippie school in the early 1970s – I was on the cooking team and we cooked lunch for the whole school.
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents as a child, too, and I was around my mormor (grandma) and her daily routine in the kitchen – cooking, shopping, gathering produce – so I got to know the rhythm of the seasons and, of course, the joy of cooking. Everybody in my family can cook and loves food.