Invasion of the Butter Vikings: Crowdfunding Cultured Butter
7th February 2016
“Tell a French chef,” begins Patrik Johansson, “that the French didn’t invent butter, and he won’t be very happy. But they didn’t! The Vikings showed them how to do it.”
Johansson and his partner Maria Håkansson style themselves as the “Butter Vikings”, a small and merry band of butter lovers and makers. Johansson has been churning butter in his native Sweden for eight years, and is known for selling his “virgin” butter to the famous Noma restaurant in Copenhagen. Now he’s setting up a dairy on the Isle of Wight.