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  • The Icelandic Sauce Universe

    The Icelandic Sauce Universe

    Whenever we talk about food in Iceland, there’s an elephant in the room and that elephant is sauce. So much sauce. Sauce on everything. Like a pachyderm bathing itself in a lake of bernaise. Like a dolphin porpoising through a cresting wave…

  • Nearly One Fourth Of Icelanders Will Eat Pizza With Kokteilsósa

    Nearly One Fourth Of Icelanders Will Eat Pizza With Kokteilsósa

    A new poll from Market and Media Research (MMR) shows some interesting divisions over the use of the popular ketchup-and-mayonnaise condiment known as kokkteilsósa (which literally translates to “cocktail sauce”, causing no small amount of confusion for foreign guests to Iceland). According…

  • Icelandic “Kokteilsósa” Origin Called Into Question

    Icelandic “Kokteilsósa” Origin Called Into Question

    Iceland’s ubiquitous kokteilsósa (“cocktail sauce”) did not come from Iceland, as was recently asserted, but variations of the condiment can be found across continents. Master chef Úlfar Eysteinsson told listeners on Reykjavík siðdegis last Wednesday that the pink sauce found on countless…