Is Bergen, Norway, not part od Scandinavia? Is Scandinavia one of those outdated geographical demarcations?
maxalfie, yeah, I've always loved cooking, i love dicking about with food, catching it meself, picking/growing it meself.....I left home just before me 19th birthday and went to live in Turkey, and started cooking properly there, I've lived in a few countries, and one of the most fascinating things for me every time (apart from foreign women) was finding markets, talking to food people, watching other people cook etc......it's no more than an interest to me...
I would have loved nothing more than to train as a chef when I was younger, but I went to a private school and my parents absolutely vetoed all my ideas to study Home Economics (not academic, for girls etc

), and forced me to study Latin instead. Did me no good whatsoever.
Although, saying that, if I'd studied Home Ec and gone onto catering college I probably wouldn't have started fucking off abroad so soon....
I did go on an "Advanced" fish cookery course 3 years or so ago, was a well meaning Christmas present from a relative, but tbh it was pretty shit as most of the course was about filleting different fish and various cooking techniques...the fiish on the course was nowhere near as fresh as the fish I use, and, obviously, there was nothing new for me to learn
I love cooking, I love food, I just make it a mission to seek out new foods, and if I don't know how to prepare something I'll find out. Everything I cook I manage to find fault with, and identify where I could improve it.
I'm a classic anal retentive.