Toast Skagen
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Swedish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Toast_skagen.jpg/220px-Toast_skagen.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Compound of toast (“toast”) + Skagen. Coined by Swedish chef Tore Wretman in the 1950s.
The connection with Skagen is disputed:
- According to Tore Wretman's biography he just choose a random location on a map. [1]
- According to Ewa Wretman, his wife, the dish was created shortly after a failed sailing competition, of the available ingredients in the galley, near Skagen, Denmark in 1956. [2]
Noun
[edit]- (food) A dish of butter-fried toast with skagenröra.