Explore Icelandic food culture, from traditional rye bread and skyr to lamb and seafood, and how quality-focused cuisine reflects the island’s history and landscape.

You might have used an oven, microwave, pressure cooker, solar cooker and even kadhai to bake a cake or bread, but have you ever heard or seen volcanic lava being used to bake bread? Well, that’s ...

Iceland is famed for its remarkable geology. The searing heat radiating through the country's stunning terrain drives volcanoes, hot springs and something you might not expect—bread ovens. Sigurður ...

The recipe for Iceland resident Viktor Sveinsson's bread calls for one unique step: add in Mother Nature. In a short movie entitled "Volcano Bread," filmmaker Alison Grasso follows Sveinsson as he ...

David Hoekman spent four summers living in Iceland to conduct environmental research between 2008 and 2011 and, incidentally, also learned about making good bread there and anywhere in the world.

We all became obsessed with sourdough bread last spring, and it’s no wonder. What better way to channel anxiety than by pummeling bread dough and then slathering the delicious, fresh-baked results ...

Thanks to the rapid expansion of social media, we are now able to know and learn about cultures without actually travelling across the world. There is so much interesting content that we encounter on ...

In Iceland, a nation of volcanoes and hot springs, baking doesn’t require a kitchen or oven to produce a nice loaf of bread. The only necessities to transform raw dough into baked glory are a cooking ...