Sacrificing a Reindeer and Foraging for Cocktails (Part 4) #Tasty Food

shouldn't we close the door I don't know

it's where we put its they're supposed

to be open next on my mission around

Sweden I was travelling far north to

Yuma

it was a long journey so I had a little

snack on route a big thing in Sweden is

food in tubes we basically have rows of

them in the supermarket's for example

this one

Karla's caviar it's basically staple

food is Sweden you'll find it in every

fridge we have with boiled egg in the

morning you can make a sandwich with

hard bread cut up boiled egg and then

colors caviar on top of it it has a very

acquired taste and it seems only sweet

Swedes like it really this is me a smart

another Swedish classic our cameraman

had it and he said it tasted like

caramel salt and cheese which for me

sounds great

but I could see that he was almost

puking he was gagging from it I mean we

have loads of different food in tubes we

have tuna a vegetarian one mackerel

salmon tons I'm gonna have some ham

cheese I mean they're cheap it's real

easy to just having a backpack or

whatever when we go camping where you go

skiing especially going to festivals

these are great

fuck it

food and chips

first up I had to source la four hours

north of you Matt to me to be us a

reindeer herder to BSS Sami who are the

indigenous people of Sweden they have

their own language and traditional

culture tied to the land yes Hey

hey IVA clear lit favorite what are we

gonna do today

oh we're gonna look at some reindeer

reindeer is a popular meeting Sweden and

legally only the Sami people are allowed

to hurt them so you saw me your parents

are saw me what does that really mean

well the Sami people is is the

indigenous people of the countries of

Norway Sweden Finland and Russia I think

we have the longest migration maybe in

the world because you have to follow the

reindeer yes they have a natural way

moving in autumn and spring not hurting

them we just follow it so you're no way

like Cowboys like oh knowing them and

trying to get them to go the right

direction Oh cowboy to the north

sounds cool doll sounds more and more

like the Indians of the north in a more

natural way it's tradition of migration

you know and the way of living it's

important to yeah to keep the culture

it's in the blood roughly 3,000 of the

35,000 Swedish Sami are reindeer herders

only good there they go yeehaw our first

task was to round up the reindeer so

they could be transported to the coast

for winter but how do we catch them we

just grab them by hand just grabbing it

yes gonna start with taking the little

small ones out okay it's that a small

one yes that is a small one come here

with it I go Deaver I got him

that's a strong one get this to be it

okay this is a bit crazy they want to

get out Oh

are you scared Eva no not really

just don't want that thing in my eye

watch out better watch out for the

antlers this is fun to hear is it yeah

so we got the small ones out because

they go separate and separate booths in

the in the truck I'm good this who knew

this craziness south of us

we've got the Ranger on the truck now

going to sacrifice one of them why do

you call it sacrifice sir respect to the

Rangers

this is not a nice industry it's

respectful it's a cultural respectful

thing I've never seen something this big

dying before so I mean I feel a bit

nervous and like emotionally weird how

do you react me when you kill kill one

of them

me I'm calm but I'm humble to them when

I kill them

or you can hear the Bloods

coming out

you're going to skin it skin it yes we

have to we're going to remove the fur

and we take out intestines and then

we're gonna eater

take it back and eater yes all right

good

you guys are quick

so what do you do now I'm tying a knot

so there's that yeah it goes to the

stomach if you don't tie a knot on this

the things she has eaten will come up

when you pull it out the stomach

oh and ruin the meat to ruin the meat

that's a horrible noise she's eating a

lot yes there there you go whoa oh wow

now we're going to take up some

delicious parts we're going to eat

tonight the tongue the tongue after a

long day's work we loaded the carcass

into the van and headed to Tobias's

house to eat where I met his lovely wife

Eva Lisa okay so what do we have here

it's a fillet from the reindeer and

evilly it says made-up sauce it's just

volleyball on lemon with some juniper

berries and some red onion she just ate

it straight a reindeer capatch oh yeah

could we call it that yeah

mmm really tender almost melts in your

mouth

how good

by the war you have to be saw me to be a

reindeer herder unless you marry into it

like you did like I did yeah clever you

can do this let's see now I mean it's a

hard life but we get good food yeah it's

a how are reindeer herders and there are

nomads and they go by they don't care

about the clock it's it impossible to

set you know let's meet at two o'clock

they don't care you can tell when you go

into houses here if there's a reindeer

herder living there so when you say this

is a reindeer herders house yeah it's

kind of half half if you look this way

it's absolutely a reindeer there's no

painting from the paintings on the wall

and I mean some ugly old furniture it's

not really that important because you

don't stay indoors as much okay this

looks great a lot of food so what do we

have here well we got boiled heart boy

liver and both tongue and also some

potatoes meat yeah mmm okay tongue I

need need to get the tongue

I always have captain on our Christmas

smorgasbord this is better okay so if

you had to choose one dish to define

Sweden what would that be

pulp no it's pancakes no they got

pancakes all over the world they doesn't

have palsy no no one else eats that shit

you made pot once and our son was like

that's actually coffee I did with that

recommendation I had to go find the

really traditional dish in northern

Sweden Palace

hey what about y'all do oh so this is

popped you have a butter you have it

with milk basically it's a potato

dumpling filled with pork eating parts

at least is something we call paused

coma

it's a word everyone knows in Sweden

actually it's carb overload basically

sooo potato dumpling Kevin I think

you're a bit stingy on the bacon eh

we do love milk as well here sweet serve

some of the few people in the world that

can process this stuff except for

infants we love it

I just learned a new word from the team

here and it's it's stodgy and that's

what Paul Thissen it's really thick

thick this just goes down your stomach

like let's me go to the pulp coma yeah

I'm done

Sweden has strict alcohol laws buying

alcohol over 3.5 percent can only be

done in the government-run system blog 8

and nowhere else it's not always easy to

find a system where log and they close

early 3:00 p.m. on a Saturday and

they're entirely closed on the Sunday so

if you miss opening x bars are your best

bet for a drink we heard about a new bar

in umeå called open closed that was also

a deli by day it was opened by EML

ordering Sweden's bartender of the year

in 2013

Yemen is well known for his innovative

use of locally forest ingredients in his

cocktails thanks to a tradition called

Alamance Repton every man's right

anyone in Sweden is allowed to forage

for wild foods and flowers so we headed

to the woods to gather ingredients for

his m90 cocktail inspired by the

camouflage pattern used by the Swedish

Armed Forces so you're a bartender or

would you call yourself a professor of

cocktails and forging know I hate no no

no I'm a bartender I hate the word

mixologist and all that shit so why do

you go foraging for the ingredients

can't you just buy them in the shop yeah

I could but but feels more authentic and

more genuine to really go out there

yourself and it's the most organic way

to do it it's a big country Sweden and

we have a lot of forests so it's it will

never run out and it's a big thing in

Scandinavia with like new modern queues

in but if you look back Swedish people

has always been for years like my

grandmother and so on everybody's

reforging in their own

oh yeah like you mean like my mom has

her spot where she picks her

chanterelles and like she would never

tell anyone without house well that's

yeah every family has the secret spot

exactly my father has his own

cloudberries and he probably won't tell

me until his deathbed honest they're

probably son I'm not gonna tell I love

you but I'm gonna tell you about the

cloudberry spot so what am I looking for

him and we're going to get some spruce

we're going to dry this out and turn it

into a powder there we have a nice

specimen nice specimen a nice tree up

the head yes if you just peel this off

right you have some acidity to it I say

that yeah up in the beginning

hmm and then you get the actual flavor

so we will using this to dry it up and

use it in the m9 cocktail how much do we

need to bring we're making a lot of

drinks yeah I think we need loads yeah

yeah take loads who take the whole

spruce take the whole tree yeah then we

headed back to the bar to make the m9d

camouflage cocktail p.m. is dried out

the Spruce in a dehydrator and ground it

into a powder with an equal amount of

dried mint here's the powder

so we start off with the rump some green

chartreuse to get the herbal notes and

then we made a camouflage syrup and they

come across Europe is actually tonka

beans and spruce cook together some

lemon to get some acidity egg whites to

get some foam on it so the powders made

earlier yeah bitch powder is dried out

flour berries and vanilla and then you

have raw cacao from a chocolate factory

just here new miracle Jenny's Chocolate

Factory and the green one is mint and

spruces with it before you drink it from

different angles and will taste

differently they go our m90 so basic

it's three drinks in one yeah

wow that's good

I gotta have a compass I got out just as

we did ya feel the herbal notes from the

chartreuse yeah okay so good my good man

fucking good yeah it's fucking you I

really love the stuff with the screws

yeah nice foraging nice drink drink

master

oh no customers oh the New Nordic

cuisine is basically sourcing

ingredients and products only from the

Nordic countries we have like an

expressing that you did where you stand

its food cooking of ceramic flights whoa

this is totally medieval scaring me