If you are a food lover, then you will definitely love Denmark. Known as the gourmet capital of Scandinavia, Denmark has around 12 Michelin-starred restaurants and a home to the best restaurant in the world: Noma.
The cuisines in Denmark do not deal only with fine dining restaurants. You can also enjoy a budget-friendly and hearty meal from Danish cheap-eat restaurants, pubs, and inns. The traditional Danish cuisines are very rich and heavy. Danish dinner is usually based on potato, gravy, and meat—most likely pork. In traditional Danish cuisine, potatoes play an essential part.
Danes excel in making breads and pastries. There are a number of bakeries in Denmark. Bread in Denmark is called rugbrød—a dark, heavy, sour-dough rye bread. This is the perfect dish during poker nights. You and your poker friends will absolutely love eating a freshly-baked rugbrød for snack in between playing hands. It is very low in fat and does not contain any sugar or oil. This is perfect for people who are on a diet.
Instead of eating chips and fries for your friends during house party or poker night, you can just give them rugbrød as a healthier alternative to white breads. Some people use this rye bread to make a smørrebrød. This is a famous open-faced sandwich that was invented in the 19th century.
You can also eat other kinds of Danish bread such as the so-called “Vienna bread” or wienerbrød with coffee or tea when playing online poker games at da.PartyPoker.com, especially if you are playing this online game late at night to keep you awake. It will not take you more than 30 minutes just to prepare snacks for poker nights or any ordinary days.
Today, the Danish cuisine has undergone so many changes in the past few years. They call it as the New Nordic cuisine. Danish chefs are geared to significantly changing the eating lifestyle of the Danes. They are making lighter and healthier meals. The modern Danish cooking are heavily influenced by Italy, France, Spain, Thailand, and China. Younger generations of Danish chefs are becoming more adventurous in cooking their recipes. They are now embracing the modern methods of cooking Danish food, yet they still pay respect and appreciate a traditional Danish meal.
There is a large percentage of traditional Danish food that are preserved in a unique way to make them last longer. These foods are preserved by smoking, pickling in brine, air-drying, or salting. Preservation of some food items are done due to Denmark’s many geographical challenges and to keep the people nourished during the winter. Some of these foods are pork products like bacon, butter, havarti, Danish blue cheese, and wienerbrød. These foods are also the food products that are being exported to other countries.
Let's go back to how food used to be, made from wholesome, good ingredients. Let's embrace the slow food movement.
Taking time to cook yourself a decent meal should always come as a priority. After all we are what we eat! 
Would love to visit Denmark someday for sure! Sounds like an amazing place.
Don’t know much about Danish cuisine. But I do Love their bread.
I often visit Denmark. My Danish mother in law cook LOVELY Danish food and bake fabulous breads and cakes. I’ve also tried the New Nordic Cusine dishes, very healthy a real good alternative to the usual recipes.
You are lucky! I always wanted to visit Denmark and I am sure I will one day!