Foraging for food in the Icelandic wild

Iceland’s ‘Wild Chef’ Úlfar Finnbjörnsson maps out Icelandic food and the rules for foraging. Photo: Kristinn Magnússon/ William Grant And Sons

It was a beautiful sunny day at the Hvalfjörður (Whale Fjord) in Iceland.

There we were, a group of journalists armed with little metal buckets, digging through piles of seaweed, dipping our hands into pools of clear, cool water, looking for mussels, clams, seaweed, and anything else we could get our grubby little hands on to cook for our lunch later.