August 22, 2008
NYCnoshcast No. 9: Ida Davidsen’s Danish Dreams
Nobody, and we mean nobody, makes a better open-faced sandwich than Ida Davidsen does. No surprise, given that her family has been making the world’s best smørrebrød and serving them from their family restaurant in Copenhagen for more than a century. When HungryMan and I visited her in Denmark this past week, we ate ourselves into a smoked salmon coma, drank more than our share of Red Aalborg, and discovered an unexpected connection between Ida and NYC–and not just the fact that her lengthy menus remind us of Shopsin’s, another family-run business we hope makes it to the century mark. Even if an overseas visit isn’t on the horizon, you prepare many of Ida’s recipes at home, as we have been doing for a few years now, after tracking down a copy of her wonderful cookbook on eBay. Once you taste a few of her sandwiches, you might even be tempted to ignore the weak dollar and head across the Atlantic for a little liver paté and fried onion delight. In the meantime, you can view a slideshow of pictures of our visit on our Flickr photostream as you listen to our podcast. As with all of our podcasts, you have the option either to download the audio file (just right-click that link to save the file to disk) in order to listen on your mp3 device, or if you have a speedy Internet connection, you can stream the podcast by clicking the ‘play’ button on the audio player below. Skål!
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