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Greenlandic cuisine is traditionally based on meat from marine mammals, birds, and fish, and normally contains high levels of protein. Since colonization and the arrival of international trade, the cuisine has been increasingly influenced by Danish, British, American and Canadian cuisine. [1] During the summer when the weather is milder, meals ...
Inuit elders eating maktaaq. Historically, Inuit cuisine, which is taken here to include Greenlandic, Yupʼik and Aleut cuisine, consisted of a diet of animal source foods that were fished, hunted, and gathered locally. In the 20th century the Inuit diet began to change and by the 21st century the diet was closer to a Western diet.
Categories: Cuisine by country. Indigenous cuisine of the Americas. North American cuisine by dependent territory. Food and drink in Greenland. Culture of Greenland. Arctic cuisine. Inuit cuisine. Danish cuisine.
The Greenlandic Inuit (Greenlandic: kalaallit, Danish: Grønlandsk Inuit) are the indigenous and most populous ethnic group in Greenland. [12] Most speak Greenlandic (Western Greenlandic, Kalaallisut) and consider themselves ethnically Greenlandic. People of Greenland are both citizens of Denmark and citizens of the European Union.
Region or state. Greenland. Main ingredients. Little auk. Kiviak or kiviaq is a traditional wintertime Inuit food from Greenland that is made of little auks (Alle alle), a type of seabird, fermented in a seal skin. Making kiviak has traditionally been a community effort in Inughuit culture. [1] Up to 500 whole auks are packed into the seal skin ...
Culture of Greenland. The culture of Greenland has much in common with Greenlandic Inuit tradition, as the majority of people are descended from Inuit. Many people still go ice fishing and there are annual dog-sled races in which everyone with a team participates. However, Greenland has now become somewhat of a tourist attraction.
Suaasat is a traditional Greenlandic soup. It is traditionally made from seal meat, but can also be made from whale, caribou, or seabirds . The soup often includes onions and potatoes and is simply seasoned with salt, black pepper, and bay leaves. The soup is often thickened with rice or by soaking barley in the water overnight so that the ...
Muktuk. Sliced and prepared muktuk. Muktuk[1] (transliterated in various ways, see below), a traditional food of Inuit and other circumpolar peoples, consisting of whale skin and blubber. A part of Inuit cuisine, it is most often made from the bowhead whale, although the beluga and the narwhal are also used.