We Have Great Taste

At Odder Folk High School, food is a priority. We cook organic meals and love using seasonal ingredients. We focus on minimizing food waste by making full use of each ingredient.

Our meals are organic and based on climate-friendly dietary guidelines, so you can look forward to plenty of fresh vegetables, delicious vegetarian dishes, local fruits and berries, slow-cooked winter meals, fresh fish, warm breads, homemade pickles, and tasty cakes. Our kitchen is inspired by both traditional Danish cuisine and flavors from around the world. We believe that sharing a good meal strengthens our sense of community—so everyone is welcome at the table.

Favorite Dishes and Brand-New Flavors

In our kitchen, you’ll be served familiar favorites as well as dishes you’ve never tried before. We want to challenge and inspire your taste buds. We look forward to welcoming you to the table at Odder Højskole.

A ”Hello” from the Kitchen

Food matters. Without food, we don’t live—and some might say that without good food, we don’t truly live. Beyond being nourishment, food is also a deeply social thing. We gather around food. We offer food to one another. We talk about food, we read about food, we cook food.

When you study food, you also study human history and culture. We haven’t always eaten the way we do now. In other parts of the world, people eat differently than we do here.
In the Middle Ages, only the nobility ate what we today consider good food. But even the richest king didn’t live as well as most people do in the Western world today.

Food Is Culture

In Japan, a meal is something different than it is in Denmark or the Western world. In China, people eat dogs; in parts of Africa, they eat insects. Every time period and every culture can be seen through its food.

To learn about food is to learn about humanity, about its history, its triumphs and tragedies, and the conditions under which life has been lived.
A cooking course should include the food traditions of many cultures and many time periods. You don’t come to a højskole just to learn how to cook; you come to learn about food in a broader perspective.

Food is also about what grows in the forest and walks in the field. Without getting to know ingredients found just outside your door—and from faraway places—you can’t fully understand how a food tradition is shaped by its local ingredients.
Cooking Danish food isn’t just about steak and caramelized onions—it’s also about organic pork, lovage, and chanterelles.

Together, we’ll dig our hands into ingredients and dishes from around the world. Of course, we’ll learn to cook—but we’ll also talk about the food as we prepare it.
Because to learn about food is to learn about ourselves.