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Welcome to recipe club where we debate the best way to cook the things you want to eat. My name is Chris

I'm Chris and today we are doing a little cooking with booze. More specifically we are going to be making something called

Gravlox and if you don't know what that is, I'm going to tell you Gravlox is salmon that has been cured in salt and sugar and

sweet herbs and spices and in this case a big healthy shot of aqua it is a

Scandinavian dish as you may have surmised and it is old as hell. In fact, I'm reading about

Gravlox right now and it was invented in Yompland the area of Sweden where Magnus Nelson used to have his restaurant

Faviken for those keeping score.

Sometime in the 14th century evidently by a man named Olifir Gravlox who came up with this method of basically

burying salted salmon and letting it cure for either a short time or a long time. Hence the name Gravlox

Grav meaning to dig and locks meaning salmon. Now I say he came up with this but obviously

Olifir wasn't the first person to bury food. I think this is a tale as old as time and I love it.

I love the fact that before there was refrigeration or gas ovens or microwaves or stoves or anything

we humans would just look around and try to cook food in whatever way presented itself.

This is some real primitive shit I'm talking about. I've got a piece of salmon and I'm looking at it

and I'm thinking what should I do with this fish? I've eaten it raw, I've cooked it over the fire, I've tried hanging it.

I guess I can just dig a hole right here and stick it in there and that's what Olifir Gravlox and many many other

humans across history have done. In fact, the ground has served as a traditional fermentation chamber for

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