Known as 'country food', the cuisine of Nunavut is mostly based around subsistence living and produce that comes from hunting and fishing.
Things to know: In group meals, elders are usually served first. Alcohol is controlled in Nunavut and in some communities is prohibited. Hotels and restaurants in Iqaluit are licensed.
Regional specialties: • Arctic char (with a taste somewhere between salmon and trout), mussels, scallops (especially from Cumberland Sound), clams, turbot (especially from the Baffin region) and Greenland shrimp.
• Musk ox and caribou.
• Local
bannock (a mixture of flour
and water blended into a dough and cooked slowly in a frying pan) dates from the old prospecting rations which kept for weeks in an easily transportable form.
•
Muktuk (skin of the whale).
Regional drinks:• Melting glacier ice is collected and provides water in many communities. Bottled water is available.
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