Bergen, Norway. Visit Norway

My first bite upon landing in Bergen, Norway, was airport pizza—most likely frozen before being reheated on one of those squeaky, trundling conveyor belt ovens. It had a preponderance of pepperoni on top, along with a few julienned slices of red pepper, and a hearty blanket of melty mozzarella. Was it the best slice I’ve ever had? No, of course not—I’m a New Yorker. But would it surprise you that eating such a slice was actually on my Norwegian food checklist?

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Here’s a fun fact for your next cocktail party: Norwegians eat more frozen pizza than any other country on the planet, at a whopping 25 pounds per capita. Maybe it’s because their winters stretch almost interminably; maybe it’s because frozen pizza, objectively, is pretty delicious.

But it was a ranking I found quite shocking until I spent time this summer exploring the country’s second-largest city. Norwegian cuisine, it turns out, is pleasantly astonishing in many ways. And no place exemplifies the country’s culinary history and innovation quite like Bergen. 

Perched on the west coast of the country, Bergen has been an international trading post since the 11th century. Today, it’s most well known for being the gateway to the fjords: those narrow inlets of sea bracketed by towering cliffs (a striking........

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