Design, Food and Culture - Day Five

We started with the nearby Round Tower,

noted for the wide circular ramp, up which 

the King of Denmark  used to ride a horse

to the fine view on top. We had to walk.

Then we visited ILLUMS Bolghus,

a design centered branch of the ILLUMS

department store. We were pleased to learn that

the Abstracta bookcase design by Paul Cadovius,

which we bought fifty years ago in Copenhagen,

was still being sold, albeit, no longer in chrome.

We also learned that, due to international restrictions 

on the sale of rosewood, the sideboard we bought 

in Copenhagen is no longer made.

Lunch at Kadeau was a fine experience in the new style 

of cuisine which Scandanavia has introduced in recent years.

Local ingredients, prepared with methods which 

intensify the flavor, such as dehydration, fermentation

and pickling, presented in very small portions designed

with consummate artistic skill. Even though the meal

had 15 courses we were not stuffed. Here's the menu:

Cured ham, rowan and bronze fennel

Dry plum and dry scallop

Herring, fresh cheese and blueberry

Carpet clam and Kombu

Grilled sasify and Hen of the woods

Mahogany clam, strawberry and cherry blossom

Apple and tomato salad

Shrimps, Osietra caviar and walnut leaf

Oyster and garden and beach herbs

Cold & hot smoked salmon & semi-ripe figs

Palthest, Havgus and salted plum

Scallops, horseradish and carrot

Celeraic, rhubarb root oil, spring & summer pollen

Beef, tomato and grilled lovage

Late summer fruits

Honey cake, creme fraiche & Beluga caviar

Berries, cultured kefir cream, spring honey

Pine tart

Semi-frozen buttermilk pie

Here are pictures of two of the "courses."

The herring had the witty quality of imitating

the herringbone pattern of the restaurant floor.

The "late summer fruits" were candied.

The beef course was the only one that did not 

fit the refined level of the menu.

After lunch, a fifteen-minute walk brought us

to the the concert hall of the Black Diamond,

the national library, where we heard a beautiful

concert, mostly Vivaldi, played by Adrian 

Chandler and Concerto Copenhagen.

Another marvelous day.

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