Nordic Preserves, Fish & Wildlife Company Inc.,

NORDIC PRESERVES IS THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF NEW YORK BASED SCANDINAVIAN CULINARY ADVENTURES THAT BEGAN IN 1998, WHEN NATIVE STOCKHOLMER ANNIKA SUNDVIK TEAMED UP WITH JOHN LAVELLE AND LU RATUNIL AND TOGETHER THEY CONVERTED AN OLD BARBER SHOP AT THE MOST SOUTHERLY END OF ORCHARD STREET (WHICH WAS CONSIDERED TO BE AT THAT TIME A GRITTY,SKETCHY,OUTPOST) WHERE CHINATOWN MET THE LOWER EAST SIDE,INTO A

HIP SWEDISH EATERY.THEY CHAMPIONED CLEAN SIMPLE TASTES AND TOP QUALITY INGREDIENTS,GOOD WORLD BAR HELPED REVITALISE THE NEIGHBORHOOD,OTHER RESTAURANTS AND ART GALLERIES SOON FOLLOWED.SOME OF TODAYS STAR CHEFS GOT THEIR START IN GOODWORLD'S KITCHEN.CARLO MIRARCHI OF THE WONDERFUL ROBERTAS AND FREDRIK BERSELIUS OF ASKA ARE TWO OF THE NOTABLES.THE GOODWORLD SADLY WAS RAZED TO THE GROUND IN 2009,A VICTIM OF THE INEVITABLE GENTRIFICATION THAT STALKS ART GALLERIES AND AMBITIOUS YOUNG RESTAURANTS.THEY MOVED A FEW BLOCKS UPTOWN TO DELANCEY STREET AND ONCE AGAIN BUILT A RESTAURANT FROM SCRATCH,THE WHITE SLAB PALACE,A MORE AMBITIOUS RESTAURANT IN SOME RESPECTS THAN GOODWORLD.IT EMBRACED, AND PUSHED FORWARD THE SCANDINAVIAN FOOD CHARGE THAT WAS IN FULL SWING IN NEW YORK CITY.THE IDEA FOR NORDIC PRESERVES CAME OUT OF THE FISK CAFE WHICH HAD A BRIEF LIFE AS A SIBLING PROJECT HOUSED NEXT DOOR TO THE WHITE SLAB.A FEW YEARS ON THEY SOLD WHITE SLAB; AFTER 15 YEARS IN THE RESTAURANT BIZ THE LATE NIGHTS HAD LOST SOME OF THEIR LUSTER,BUT FOOD WAS STILL NUMBER ONE ON THEIR RADAR.NORDIC PRESERVES ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE AND IN HARLEM CONTINUES AND EXPANDS THEIR VISION OF NORDIC COOKING IN AMERICA.CLEAN SEASONAL INGREDIENTS AND CREATIVE USE OF RICH NORDIC TRADITIONS; FORAGING, PICKLING, PRESERVING AND CURING. THE FOOD YOU WILL FIND AT NORDIC PRESERVES IS INFORMED BY ANNIKA'S MEMORIES OF SEARCHING FOR MUSHROOMS IN THE FORESTS OF SCANDINAVIA AS A CHILD WITH HER MOTHER,VISITS TO THE BEAUTIFUL INDOOR MARKET AT OESTERMALMSALLES IN STOCKHOLM AND TRIPS THROUGH THE COSMOPOLITAN DIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLMS RINKEBY NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE GENERATIONS OF IMMIGRANTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD SOLD AND STILL SELL ETHNIC GOODS FROM OPEN AIR MARKET STALLS...EATING NORWEGIAN SPRING LAMB, AND PUNGENT CHEESE AGED ON THE BANKSIDES OF NORWEGIAN FJORDS, LONG SUMMER HOLIDAYS AS A TEENAGER ON THE CRAGGY WEST CAST OF SWEDEN,CRABBING AND FISHING AND WAITING FOR THE DAWNS ARRIVAL OF THE SHRIMP BOATS. THEN BRINGING ALL THIS BOUNTY TO THE GRANITE ROCKS SPLASHED BY THE SEA TO COOK UP ALFRESCO, DINE WITH FRIENDS AND WASH DOWN WITH CHEAP ITALIAN WINE.